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April 11, 2005

A call that may be of interest

There was a call for papers that came across Kairosnews a few days back that some of you may be interested in. If you're so inclined, it might be worth using your project for this class as a way of getting started on something for this:

Technical Communication Quarterly Special Issue: Online Teaching and Learning: Preparation, Development, and Organizational Communication

Online teaching and learning have become common to many organizations. Various traditional colleges and universities currently conduct academic courses—such as rhetoric and technical communication—online. Many times, students need acculturative exercises to assess their “readiness” for the online environment and possible follow-up orientation. Those who teach online and administer such programs also need orientation and training for their own “readiness” in online environments. They need training at organizational levels not just for technical platform-specific skills development, but also for the practical and theoretical transfer of pedagogical principles and practices to online environments. Similarly, non-traditional educational institutions that provide learning assistance or market to distance learners conduct employee training and development. In any of these cases, such training often occurs at a distance. It is important to examine what kinds of principles and processes address the very real challenges that arise when an institution conducts some or all of its training and professional development online–via the Internet or other modalities. This special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly explores organizational communication, needed preparation, and development strategies for online educators.

There's more detail, including possible topics, at the call itself...

Posted by cgbrooke at April 11, 2005 04:40 PM

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Posted by: mike at April 13, 2005 07:10 PM