As collaborators who have been working together virtually since 2017, we have written plays and articles, conducted artist interviews, and are in the process of writing a book about teaching older adults theatre. When the pandemic came, everything else in our lives moved online, and we encountered new challenges with both our teaching and our scholarship. We were tasked with transitioning our theatre students to a virtual environment while conducting research for our book. We knew what was successful for us, as working online had helped our own practice, but would it be effective for students? And was it possible to write a scholarly book without access to academic libraries and archives? Our experiences over the past year reminded us that it shouldn't require a pandemic to rethink best practices in teaching and research. While the lessons we learned were because of a restructured academic environment, the issues we addressed existed previously and were often ignored. These are some of the things we will take with us postpandemic as educators and scholars.

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让我们建立剧院社区。. . 与否：排外世界中的虚拟教学和学术

作为自 2017 年以来一直在虚拟合作的合作者，我们撰写了戏剧和文章，进行了艺术家访谈，并且正在编写一本关于教老年人戏剧的书。当大流行来临时，我们生活中的其他一切都转移到了网上，我们的教学和学术都遇到了新的挑战。我们的任务是在为我们的书进行研究的同时将我们的戏剧学生转变为虚拟环境。我们知道什么对我们来说是成功的，因为在线工作有助于我们自己的实践，但它对学生有效吗？是否有可能在没有访问学术图书馆和档案馆的情况下写一本学术书籍？过去一年的经验提醒我们，不应该需要一场流行病来重新思考教学和研究的最佳实践。虽然我们吸取的教训是由于学术环境的重组，但我们解决的问题以前存在并且经常被忽视。这些是我们作为教育工作者和学者在大流行后随身携带的一些东西。