{"id":9172,"date":"2021-02-08T04:12:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T04:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/08\/no-joke-using-humor-in-class-is-harder-when-learning-is-remote\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:38:13","slug":"no-joke-using-humor-in-class-is-harder-when-learning-is-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/no-joke-using-humor-in-class-is-harder-when-learning-is-remote\/","title":{"rendered":"No joke: Using humor in class is harder when learning is remote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Educators everywhere have found out the hard way that incorporating humor in the online classroom is a tough nut to crack. Scott Henderson, an education professor at Furman University, takes a look at humor in the virtual college world in an article he wrote for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/no-joke-using-humor-in-class-is-harder-when-learning-is-remote-153818\">The Conversation<\/a><\/strong>. Drawing on experiences of Furman faculty, alumni educators and others, he unpacks five reasons why jokes tend to fall flat amid a sea of remote, masked students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educators everywhere have found out the hard way that incorporating humor in the online classroom is a tough nut to crack. Scott Henderson, an education professor at Furman University, takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,28,43,74,6,23],"tags":[674,675,676,433,677],"class_list":["post-9172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-education","category-graduate-studies","category-graduate-studies-in-education","category-in-the-news","category-religion","tag-face-coverings","tag-humor-in-the-classroom","tag-masks","tag-remote-learning","tag-student-engagement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}