Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers (Technical Communications Series) [Hardcover]

Kelli Cargile Cook (Editor), Keith Grant-Davie (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0895032953 | ISBN-13: 978-0895032959 | Publication Date: January 2005

In Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers, 24 college educators focus on the most important questions to be addressed by all scholar-teachers and administrators committed to developing high-quality online education programs. We describe these questions as "global" because they transcend the particular situations of individual institutions. They are questions that everyone involved in online education needs to address: What are the issues to consider when first developing and then sustaining an online education program? How do we create interactive, pedagogically sound online courses and classroom communities? How should we monitor and assess the quality of online courses and programs? And how should recent developments and innovations in online education cause us to reexamine our roles and responsibilities as educators in technical communication? While these global questions affect all of us in one way or another, they demand different local answers, such as those presented by the contributors to this text. Readers will need to consider which of these local answers might apply to their own situations and how these answers might need to be adapted to reflect the particular needs of their own institutions.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

INTENDED AUDIENCE Teachers and administrators involved in, or about to become involved in, development of online programs or courses at their institutions. The book will be particularly relevant to those working in the field of technical communication at the 4-year or 2-year college level, but will also be of interest to readers in other fields and at other educational levels.

About the Author

Kelli Cargile Cook is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Utah State University, where she teaches courses on writing technologies, interactive media, modem rhetorical theory, and editing. She first began exploring questions of distance education in 1994, when she worked to provide a distance course to a homebound student with disabilities at Ball State University. In 1996 she took her first online course in document design at Texas Tech University, and she taught two online courses in introductory technical communication in 1999. Since arriving at Utah State University, she has developed online graduate courses in professional editing, workplace research and report writing, and instructional multimedia.

Keith Grant-Davie is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Utah State University, where he has taught courses in rhetorical theory, reading theory, technical writing, and the use of computers in composition classes. His work has appeared in JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, Rhetoric Review, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Computers and Composition. Since 1999 he has been Director of Graduate Studies in English and Program Advisor to the 40+ students in Utah State’s online Master’s Program in Technical Writing, which he helped design in 1997. He taught his first online graduate seminar in fall 2003.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Baywood Pub Co (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895032953
• ISBN-13: 978-0895032959
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,072,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)