The OWI Community holds a core belief that a user-centered approach to distance education is critical. Online writing instruction is ripe for research in user-experience and the field is now paying more attention to how students and instructors engage in and experience online writing courses.
For example, the Fall 2018 special issue of Computers and Composition was devoted to user-centered design and usability in online composition courses (Bartolotta, et.al, 2018). Further, Scott Warnock’s most recent text on online writing instruction, his 2018 Writing Together: Ten Weeks Teaching and Studenting in an Online Writing Course, details the experience of an asynchronous OWC through the dual perspective of the teacher (Warnock) and his student co-author (Diana Gasiewski).
Understanding the connections between user-centered design and effective online writing instruction is fundamental to student success, to teacher satisfaction, and ultimately to inclusive and accessible online teaching and learning.
This Narratives Project will contribute to this promising area of user-centered design research in the writing studies field and hope to attract new participant-contributors. This Narratives project is an ambitious endeavor that is in its early phases. We as researchers, seek to collect, in audio/video interview format, a range of student and instructor--that is, “user”--narratives about the experience of learning and teaching online.
The goal of the Narratives Project is to collect many diverse narratives and voices on the OWI Community website, to reflect ethically and authentically what it is like to take and to teach an online writing course, and to make those narratives available as a resource for teachers and scholars in the field.
For example, the Fall 2018 special issue of Computers and Composition was devoted to user-centered design and usability in online composition courses (Bartolotta, et.al, 2018). Further, Scott Warnock’s most recent text on online writing instruction, his 2018 Writing Together: Ten Weeks Teaching and Studenting in an Online Writing Course, details the experience of an asynchronous OWC through the dual perspective of the teacher (Warnock) and his student co-author (Diana Gasiewski).
Understanding the connections between user-centered design and effective online writing instruction is fundamental to student success, to teacher satisfaction, and ultimately to inclusive and accessible online teaching and learning.
This Narratives Project will contribute to this promising area of user-centered design research in the writing studies field and hope to attract new participant-contributors. This Narratives project is an ambitious endeavor that is in its early phases. We as researchers, seek to collect, in audio/video interview format, a range of student and instructor--that is, “user”--narratives about the experience of learning and teaching online.
The goal of the Narratives Project is to collect many diverse narratives and voices on the OWI Community website, to reflect ethically and authentically what it is like to take and to teach an online writing course, and to make those narratives available as a resource for teachers and scholars in the field.
Faculty Narratives
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Student Narratives
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