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- Title
Teaching religion online to nontraditional adult learners.
- Authors
Smith, Brian H.
- Abstract
Today three‐fourths of those enrolled in undergraduate programs are nontraditional students, defined by the National Center for Education Statistics as adults with one or more of these characteristics:delayed enrollment into postsecondary education, attended part time, financially independent, worked full time while enrolled, had dependents other than a spouse, was a single parent, or did not obtain a standard high school diploma. I have been teaching online world religion courses for nontraditional learners since 2004 (64 courses, totaling over 1000 students) at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UWO) while also teaching full‐time in the classroom at Ripon College in Ripon, WI. This paper describes the pedagogical methods I have employed to maximize student learning in online courses. It summarizes my own learning experiences from teaching online at UWO and describes how online teaching has impacted my face‐to‐face classroom instruction at Ripon College.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Center for Education Statistics; POSTSECONDARY education; UNIVERSITY of Wisconsin (Oshkosh, Wis.); ONLINE education; RIPON College
- Publication
Teaching Theology & Religion, 2022, Vol 25, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
1368-4868
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/teth.12622