Book Review: Voices from the Digital Classroom

In 10 years, I hope that higher education will be really playful, and a space where faculty have more time to be innovative and creative in their approaches.I do not believe it is wise to maintain status quos for over 500 years.Things change, the students change, and the things we are teaching change" (Abegglen et al., 2022, p. 192).I began my doctoral journey and career as an emerging scholar amid the COVID-19 pandemic, where Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) became collaborative spaces and communities of practices that supported the sustained effort needed to abruptly transition to synchronous teaching and learning.The book review request was timely, and as I lingered amid the carefully curated list of books, I paused on Abegglen et al.'s (2022) Voices from the Digital Classroom.Diving in, I sought to highlight areas of tension in VLEs while drawing parallels between Abegglen et al.'s text and my doctoral research exploring the narratives of teachers' VLE experiences in an early elementary context.Abegglen et al. set the parameters of the book in their opening, grounding readers in the Teaching and Learning Network Online (TALON) framework.This section presents as a type of abstract for the chapters to come; however, it does not trouble the reader