Eighteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

When the fear of pandemic struck United States classrooms in early March, the traditional K-12 and higher education institutions scrambled to adapt and adopt online space during the crisis. Unprepared and overwhelmed, they suffered immensely, and their suffering received undivided scholarly attention. However, quietly, behind the scenes, institutions already fully online and already experienced in employing digital pedagogy, were also forced to adapt and evolve, especially classes in humanities. As a result of the massive flooding of the online space by traditional institutions, digital pedagogy for teaching humanities was revolutionary transformed and evolved during the crisis. In my presentation, I will track the changes, perhaps permanent, in the ways that digital pedagogy is implemented in the traditionally online humanities classrooms, and discuss the effects of the pandemic on the future of learning theory in digital space.