The (Post-)Pandemic Academic: Re-Forming Communication Studies

The COVID-19 pandemic forced rapid transformation of educational practices on anunprecedented scale. Most notably, online course delivery became the default and persistsas a key component of education throughout the course of the pandemic. This reflectiveanalysis provides insights regarding effective design and implementation of online courses.Beyond the courses themselves, communication scholars and practitioners must considersystemic barriers to fully realizing the potential of online education. These concernsgenerate potential research and activist agendas that can encompass all the manifolddimensions of communication studies