With the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, teaching online became a norm for universities in Canada. Besides the challenges of teaching topics that may be impossible to be taught online, a major issue that the mandatory physical distancing brought is the relationality between teachers and students. In order to investigate how educators were making sense of such changes, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 education professors across Canada. In light of Derrida’s and Ruitenberg’s ethic of hospitality, this paper explores how the abrupt shift to online education unveiled the nature and challenges of hospitable education, especially in the online context. The implications of online instruction to professors’ relationality, however, are also instrumental in illuminating the complexities and ambiguities of a teacher’s responsibility even in what could be considered the “normal circumstances” of face-to-face instruction.

随着 2020 年 COVID-19 大流行的爆发，在线教学成为加拿大大学的常态。除了可能无法在线教授的教学主题的挑战之外，强制性物理距离带来的一个主要问题是师生之间的关系。为了调查教育工作者如何理解这些变化，我们对加拿大的 12 位教育教授进行了半结构化访谈。根据德里达和鲁腾伯格的好客伦理，本文探讨了向在线教育的突然转变如何揭示好客教育的本质和挑战，尤其是在在线环境中。然而，在线教学对教授关系的影响，