The Online Dialogue Opportunity
This session examines the pedagogical benefits of offering some online, recorded lectures in a dialogue format rather than monologue. Looking specifically at recording conversations between scholars/instructors, this presentation details the successes of dialogical formatting and how this increases accessibility to knowledge for students.
Speakers
Terry Shoemaker is a qualitative research scholar focusing on religious change in contemporary life in the United States. This includes the ways that religion and religious people adapt, convert, deconvert, reform, and abandon aspects of their religiosity or spirituality. He is interested also in studying sports in the United States through the lens of religious studies theories and methods. His work is featured at numerous sites like The Conversation, Zócalo Public Square, and Religion Dispatches. These interests lead Terry into various classes at ASU on the topics of Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Sports, and Spirituality in America.