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So you are going to be an online writing instructor: Issues in designing, developing, and delivering an online course

A bibliographic record and short editorial reading note for a paper included in the historical EDUCATE collection.

Original publication authors

Wilhelmina C. Savenye; Zane Olina; Mary Niemczyk

What this paper examines

Savenye, Olina and Niemczyk discuss the design, development and delivery of an online writing course through an instructional-design perspective. Their guidelines consider learner needs, suitability for online delivery, pedagogical choices, resources and support for both students and faculty. The paper provides a historical planning framework in which selecting a platform is only one part of preparing a course.

A question to take into course design

What learner need, learning activity and support provision justify each major design choice in an online module?

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Why it belongs in the water programme archive

EDUCATE combined water resources and environmental management with distance delivery. The original reading collection included research about online teaching, course design and learner support.

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