287+Westerhof


 * Submission ID: 287

Title:** The Ministry of Online Teaching: Why It is so Different from Campus Environments

Caroline S. Westerhof, Kaplan University, United States, CWesterhof@kaplan.edu
 * Presenter:**

Online teaching raises a different perspective on communication and the positive aspects of emotional labor. It defies any concept of being impersonal and “distant” from the student. Online teaching is a “ministry,” if the faculty understand the emotions, the pathos, and the anxieties, both personal and professional, of his or her students. One size does not fit all, amidst the regulations and rules of academic discipline. It is not a court of law, but a circulating process of teaching, learning, thinking and sharing. It is the understanding of its ministry and the meditative aspects of its thinking, both cognitively and spirituality.
 * Description**:

General session Forum
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