Digital Teaching Spaces as a Point of Purposeful Practice

Panel: William Culpepper (Academy of Art University), Laurie Haycock Makela (Academy of Art University), Samantha Perkins (Arizona State University) and Troy Alders (Academy of Art University)

Abstract

In this panel discussion, participants will engage in a dialogue focused on the learning that is taking place for faculty as they continue to accelerate teaching careers into more digitally engaged learning spaces. Panel participants were selected based on their purposeful transition into digital teaching spaces as a point of practice, with an understanding that value and outcomes can occur with a purposeful focus in digital teaching spaces. All panel participants have extensive previous experiences teaching in traditional classrooms. Panelists will discuss how and why they have transitioned and bridged the digital divide of teaching well before the pandemic. Panelist will share thoughts on the digital education learning process, the arc of a teaching transition from analog to digital classrooms, where they are present day and post pandemic with their teaching practice, and finally, panelist will share potential future casting ideas for continued and evolved digitally engaged teaching.