Contents
Introduction / Daniel Ruefman and Abigail G. Scheg
Part One: Course Conceptualization and Support
1. Return to Your Source: Aesthetic Experience in Online Writing Instruction / Daniel Ruefman
2. When the Distance Is Not Distant: Using Minimalist Design to Maximize Interaction in Online Writing Courses and Improve Faculty Professional Development / Heidi Skurat Harris, Dani Nier-Weber, and Jessie C. Borgman
3. Shifting into Digital without Stripping Your Gears: Driver’s Ed for Teaching Writing Online / Leni Marshall
Part Two: Fostering Student Engagement
4. Lost in Cyberspace: Addressing Issues of Student Engagement in the Online Classroom Community / Tamara Girardi
5. A Rhetorical Mandate: A Look at Multi-Ethnic/Multimodal Online Pedagogy / Mary-Lynn Chambers
6. Can Everybody Read What’s Posted? Accessibility in the Online Classroom / Danielle Nielsen
7. Taking the Temperature of the (Virtual) Room: Emotion in the Online Writing Class / Angela Laflen
8. Thinking outside “the Box”: Going outside the CMS to Create Successful Online Team Projects / Katherine Ericsson
9. Communicating with Adult Learners in the Online Writing Lab: A Call for Specialized Tutor Training for Adult Learners / Kimberley M. Holloway
Part Three: MOOCs
10. MOOC Mania? Bridging the Gap between the Rhetoric and Reality of Online Learning / Kristine L. Blair
11. Writing at Scale: Composition MOOCs and Digital Writing Communities / Chris Friend, Sean Michael Morris, and Jesse Stommel
About the Authors
Index