Online Education 2.0

This book continues the work of Kelli Cargile Cook and Keith Grant-Davie's first collection, which won the 2006 National Council of Teachers of English award for Best Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication. Online Education 2.0 addresses a changing virtual landscape in which online education is expanding to include more schools, more levels of education, and a more diverse population of students, including international students. The collection asks how faculty, courses, and programs have responded and adapted to changes in students' needs and abilities, to economic constraints, to new course management systems, and to Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, virtual worlds, and mobile communication devices.

Kelli Cargile Cook, Keith Grant Davie

Introduction Keith Grant-Davie and Kelli Cargile Cook SECTION I: EVOLVING PROGRAMS AND FACULTY CHAPTER 1. What Do You Do When the Ground Beneath Your Feet Shifts? Barry Maid and Barbara J. DâEUR(TM)Angelo CHAPTER 2. Theoretically Grounded, Practically Enacted, and Well Behind the Cutting Edge: Writing Course Development Within the Constraints of a Campus-Wide Course Management System Denise Tillery and Ed Nagelhout CHAPTER 3. Creativity and Consistency in Online Courses: Finding the Appropriate Balance Keri Dutkiewicz, LuAnne Holder, and Wayne D. Sneath CHAPTER 4. Communities of Practice Approach: A New Model for Online Course Development and Sustainability Lisa Meloncon and Lora Arduser CHAPTER 5. Training Faculty for Online Instruction: Applying Technical Communication Theory to the Design of a Mentoring Program Janie Jaramillo-Santoy and Gina Cano-Monreal SECTION II: ADAPTING TO CHANGING STUDENT NEEDS AND ABILITIES CHAPTER 6. Teaching Technical Communication to a Global Online Student Audience Emily A. Thrush and Susan L. Popham CHAPTER 7. Students in the Online Technical Communication Classroom: The Next Decade Angela Eaton CHAPTER 8. From Gamers to Grammarians: How Online Gaming is Changing the Nature of Digital Discourse in the Classroom Virginia Tucker CHAPTER 9. Cybergogy, Second Life, and Online Technical Communication Instruction Lesley Scopes and Bryan Carter CHAPTER 10. From Divide to Continuum: Rethinking Access in Online Education Keith Gibson and Diane Martinez SECTION III: REINVENTING COURSE CONTENTS AND MATERIALS CHAPTER 11. Adapting Instructional Documents to an Online Course Environment Jacqueline Cason and Patricia Jenkins CHAPTER 12. Expanding the Scaffolding of the Online Undergraduate Technical Communication Course Dan Jones CHAPTER 13. Innovation in the Distributed Technical Communication Classroom Lee S. Tesdell CHAPTER 14. Library Services for Online Students Britt Fagerheim CHAPTER 15. "Keeping it Real": Contextualizing Intellectual Property and Privacy in the Online Technical Communication Course Natalie Stillman-Webb Afterword Kelli Cargile Cook and Keith Grant-Davie Contributors Index