Open AccessEureka: Identifying What It Means to Practice Student-Centered Teaching in a Hypermodern Age
Author(s) -
Audra Diers-Lawson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of communication pedagogy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2640-4524
pISSN - 2578-2568
DOI - 10.31446/jcp.2021.1.10
Subject(s) - entertainment , best practice , set (abstract data type) , class (philosophy) , ethnography , pedagogy , sociology , public relations , psychology , management , political science , computer science , visual arts , art , artificial intelligence , anthropology , economics , programming language
Contemporary professional reports and research suggest that in corporate communication and related programs, we are not creating environments for modern students to thrive nor are we meeting the industry’s expectations in a “hypermodern” world. Using personal ethnography, this article analyzes industry-articulated limitations in the knowledge and skill sets of new communication practitioners, reviews contemporary literature identifying the learning needs of today’s students, and proposes a set of best practices based on the literature and the author’s own journey as a higher educationpractitioner of 20 years. Best practices identified here incorporate elements of entertainment, engagement, and an “open-world” approach that places the student experience at the core of each class and overall course design.