1st Edition

Professional Development in Online Teaching and Learning in Technical Communication A Ten-Year Retrospective

Edited By Beth L. Hewett, Tiffany Bourelle Copyright 2019
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

Technical communication instructors need professional development opportunities that will aid them in creating their online courses; in developing curricula; and in teaching in what may be a new environment. Although instructors can turn to instructional design teams for assistance in using Learning Management System and its functions, they specifically need their own first-hand, immersive... Read more

Preface  1. Editors’ Note 2007 – Online Teaching and Learning: Preparation, Development, and Organizational Communication  2. Online Education in an Age of Globalization: Foundational Perspectives and Practices for Technical Communication Instructors and Trainers  3. Exploring Electronic Landscapes: Technical Communication, Online Learning, and Instructor Preparedness  4. Immersion in a Digital Pool: Training Prospective Online Instructors in Online Environments  5. Editors’ Note 2017 – Online Teaching and Learning in Technical Communication: Continuing the Conversation  6. Of Friction Points and Infrastructures: Rethinking the Dynamics of Offering Online Education in Technical Communication in Global Contexts  7. Immersion, Reflection, Failure: Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Writing Online  8. Contingent Faculty, Online Writing Instruction, and Professional Development in Technical and Professional Communication  9. Developing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Online Technical Communication Programs: Emerging Frameworks at University of Texas at El Paso  10. Revising the Online Classroom: Usability Testing for Training Online Technical Communication Instructors  11. Technical Communication Coaching: A Strategy for Instilling Reader Usability Assurance in Online Course Material Development  12. Balancing Institutional Demands with Effective Practice: A Lesson in Curricular and Professional Development  13. Training Technical and Professional Communication Educators for Online Internship Courses  14. Training Online Technical Communication Educators to Teach with Social Media: Best Practices and Professional Recommendations

Biography

Beth L. Hewett is an expert in online literacy instruction; the immediate past President of the Global Society for Online Literacy Educators; and the owner of Defend & Publish, Forest Hill, USA, an adult writing-coaching business. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and book chapters regarding writing in a digital era.



Tiffany Bourelle is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, where she teaches first-year writing and technical communication. Her work has been published in Computers and Composition and TCQ, and she is the Co-Editor of Women's Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity (with Elizabeth A. Flynn, 2018).