Advancing an agenda for instructional preparedness: lessons learned from the transition to remote learning.

Accordingly, using interpretive methods and considering the influence of contextual factors and individual positionalities on the teaching/learning process, Ashby-King reasons that we will better understand the nuanced back and forth between students and instructors. Communication education and instructional communication scholarship, and we, as communication scholars and teachers, will benefit immensely from inquiry based on the lessons learned from the rapid transition to remote learning. At one end of a continuum were communication scholars and teachers who had taught online and could navigate their way agilely around their learning management systems' complex technologies. The coronavirus pandemic's onset resulted in unexpected "instant transitions" to remote learning at colleges and universities across the country. [Extracted from the article]