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New Resources for Post-Pandemic Teachers and Learners
One of the most profound shifts in higher education that was illuminated by COVID-19 in 2020 was the challenge the pandemic posed to (re)envisioning the pedagogical frameworks and practices employed to structure education in the classroom. Pandemic pedagogy, a term that is increasingly employed to...
Challenges and Opportunities for Community Colleges in a New Normal
The students we saw in our classrooms in 2019 will not return to our classrooms in the fall of 2021 or the spring of 2022, or ever. The global pandemic and the protest summer of 2020 have changed people permanently. Both the pandemic and the racial reckoning related to the deaths of George Floyd,...
Revisiting the LOCs – Do They Stand Up in the New Normal?
When asked to write an article about NCA’s Learning Outcomes in Communication (LOCs) and if I believed they would stand up in the new normal, my initial answer was yes, of course. After all, I had participated in the development of the LOCs. This multi-year, multi-phase project was some of the most...
Meeting the Movement: A Glimpse of a New Future
As the COVID 19 pandemic stretched across the globe during the summer of 2020, the necessity of social distancing and isolation hit Performance Studies hard. Perhaps no other subset of the Communication discipline is more dependent on people sharing space together than Performance Studies....
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Spectra, NCA's online magazine, features articles on topics that are relevant to Communication scholars, teachers, and practitioners. Spectra is one means through which NCA works toward accomplishing its mission of advancing Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry.