Title

Pedagogy, Architecture, And The Virtual Classroom

Abstract

Teaching through the Web requires instructors to reconsider their previous assumptions about the nature of teaching, lecture, testing, and student/teacher interaction. Teaching technical writing online, however, raises additional issues. How can a technical writing instructor create an online workplace in which professional-level collaboration can occur, while also allowing for purely academic instruction and discussion of theoretical issues? This article will address these issues in relation to the author's design and development of his Digital Rhetorics and the Modern Dialectic, specifically, how instructors must assume different roles as designers and then as teachers of online courses; how useful dialectical exchange on the Web that mimics (and sometimes surpasses) face-to-face, in-classroom discussion can be created; and how technical writing instructors can foster productive online collaboration. This article will be a mixture of theory and practice—leaning a little more toward the practice, making it of immediate use to someone who has just been asked to teach a class online for the first time and is seeking help. © 1999, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Publication Title

Technical Communication Quarterly

Volume

8

Issue

1

Number of Pages

21-36

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/10572259909364646

Socpus ID

0002980675 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0002980675

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