1st Edition

Online Education 2.0 Evolving, Adapting, and Reinventing Online Technical Communication

Edited By Kelli Cargile Cook, Keith Grant Davie Copyright 2013

    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.

    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. D’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

    Biography

    Kelli Cargile Cook, Keith Grant Davie