The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has heightened our awareness of how we teach, expanded the meaning of where we teach, and raised important questions about the relationship between on-site and on-line learning. Hybrid or “HyFlex” approaches to teaching and learning, which provide simultaneous onsite and online delivery, and allow students the flexibility to choose their mode of participation, are quickly becoming the norm. Thus, a new multiple-platform culture, a “multi-verse” of teaching and learning, is emerging in which insights from each domain are influencing and challenging one another, and personal experience and informal settings are increasingly being accepted into the domain of formal learning.
Kristin Jones, Ph.D. is a principal of the architecture firm Studio Integra, Ltd. and adjunct professor at Illinois Institute of Technology. Jones’ practice focuses on social and cultural impact work through educational, commercial and residential projects. Clients include the non-profit organizations Lawndale Christian Health Center, Oak Park Friends School and LEEDA Adult Developmental Services. Jones has taught at IIT since 2006, earning a Ph.D. in Architecture in 2016 with a dissertation on Visual Training within Architectural Education. In addition to teaching.