This is the official blog of MCS - the Media and Cinema Studies Program in the College of Communication at DePaul University (Chicago, IL). Here you will find the latest updates from our faculty members about new research and publications, conference talks, sponsored events and more.You'll also find updates from current students and alumni (including career paths, publications and media events).

Thursday 19 March 2015

New article by Prof. Kelly Kessler



Prof. Kelly Kessler has published a new article entitled "Finding the Face-to-Face When You Have No Face: Fostering Student-Student and Student-Professor Engagement in the Online Media Classroom."

A sample screenshot illustrating the layout of the Scopia interview with Jack McBrayer

She chronicles her work teaching online at DePaul, as well a some of the innovative approaches she has used in her online courses.


The article was published as part of the Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier:

http://www.teachingmedia.org/finding-the-face-to-face-when-you-have-no-face-fostering-student-student-and-student-professor-engagement-in-the-online-media-classroom/

"Personalization, variety, interactivity, and agency can help create a vibrant learning and teaching space, and hopefully one that doesn’t encourage your students to binge watch Breaking Bad while listening to the lectures," says Prof. Kessler.