ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the challenge of teaching performance skills online, in almost all other aspects the transition to a digitally networked field format seems to have advanced student learning. Experiential learning involves placing students in rich learning contexts, those most relevant to course topics, concepts, and skills. The traditional online learning modes are anathema to performance pedagogy, teaching strategies designed to incorporate the students' full range of senses in their learning. However, the "performance pedagogy" literature has not intersected significantly with the distance learning literature. Theoretically, digital networking and learning technologies could further liberate students from classrooms to learn in rich contexts more relevant to environmental communication. The distance-learning literature provides few solutions to the problem of teaching performance online. Most engaged learning research in distance education contexts focuses on method and medium rather than content and performance.
