Forum: A New Culture of Learning

These brief essays by M ary H ess, E ugene G allagher, and K atherine Turpin are solicited responses from three different contexts to the provocative book by D ouglas T homas and J ohn S eely B rown, The New Culture of Learning (2011). M ary H ess writes from a seminary context, providing a critical summary of the authors' major concepts and their ramifications, positive and negative, for theological education and the church. E ugene G allagher writes from a liberal arts setting, identifying characteristics of the face‐to‐face classroom that would go missing in a careless adoption of online learning environments. Finally, K atherine Turpin reports from the classroom, chronicling her experience in a course she redesigned for a graduate theological setting to employ some of the authors' pedagogical principles and strategies. Together, these responses offer critical appreciation and constructive critique of the work T homas and S eely B rown have done – and point the conversation forward.