Communication in Instruction: Beyond Traditional Classroom Settings explores the various challenges when trying to teach others in various contexts beyond traditional classroom settings, as well as the possible strategies for overcoming them.

Deanna D. Sellnow and Timothy L. Sellnow are Professors of Strategic Communication in the Nicholson School of Communication and Media at the University of Central Florida. Collectively, their research focuses on health, risk, crisis, instructional communication, and the intersection among them. They have published in numerous books and articles in regional, national, and international journals, as well as conducted and presented research in myriad countries around the world.

Introduction: Communication and instruction beyond the traditional classroom, Deanna Sellnow and Timothy Sellnow

1. Spewing nonsense [or not]: communication competence and socialization in optics and photonics workplaces

Kelly Norris Martin, Amy L. Housley Gaffney, Anne E. Leak, Jes Nelson, Alexandria T. Cervantes, Katherine Louise Gardener, Brandon L. Clark and Benjamin M. Zwickl

2. Teaching advocacy communication to pediatric residents: the efficacy of applied improvisational theater (AIT) as an instructional tool

Krista1 Hoffmann-Longtin, Jason M. Organ, Jill V. Helphinstine, Deanna R. Reinoso, Zachary S. Morgan and Elizabeth Weinstein

3. Fake news, phishing, and fraud: a call for research on digital media literacy education beyond the classroom

Nicole M. Lee

4. A new research agenda: instructional practices of activists mobilizing for science

Meghnaa Tallapragada

5. I, teacher: using artificial intelligence (AI) and social robots in communication and instruction

Chad Edwards, Autumn Edwards, Patric R. Spence and Xialing Lin

6. Bridging campus and community: religion and violence as expansive and socially relevant communication research

Sean M. Horan and Courtney N. Wright

7. Health communication as an instructional communication context beyond the classroom

Teresa L. Thompson

8. Response to special issue on communication and instruction beyond the traditional classroom

Matthew W. Seeger

9. A Call For A Pedagogy Of Empathy

Carolyn Calloway-Thomas

10. Riddles, mysteries, and enigmas: communication, teaching, and learning beyond the traditional classroom

Deanna P. Dannels