Welcome!
Our goal with this website is to offer a free online academic resource that provides a sense of community for online writing instructors and administrators around the globe. We want to encourage scholars to use recent online writing instruction (OWI) scholarship, share tips and assignments, provide feedback, and course design ideas, and engage in a welcoming community. We hope that this website will inspire everyone interested in teaching and learning in digital spaces to shape their pedagogy and programs around purposeful, meaningful, and user-focused design and content.
We have created the PARS framework and have created a trilogy of books on the PARS framework to aid scholars in designing and maintaining effective, successful, and user-focused programs and courses.
Our goal with this website is to offer a free online academic resource that provides a sense of community for online writing instructors and administrators around the globe. We want to encourage scholars to use recent online writing instruction (OWI) scholarship, share tips and assignments, provide feedback, and course design ideas, and engage in a welcoming community. We hope that this website will inspire everyone interested in teaching and learning in digital spaces to shape their pedagogy and programs around purposeful, meaningful, and user-focused design and content.
We have created the PARS framework and have created a trilogy of books on the PARS framework to aid scholars in designing and maintaining effective, successful, and user-focused programs and courses.
Our Mission:
Our site aims to raise awareness of the multitude of research and resources available to online instructors and administrators. With our website, we wish to confirm that teaching online is different than teaching in a face-to-face setting and because it is different, it requires planning, training, and a deliberate strategy from instructors and administrators.
Our site aims to raise awareness of the multitude of research and resources available to online instructors and administrators. With our website, we wish to confirm that teaching online is different than teaching in a face-to-face setting and because it is different, it requires planning, training, and a deliberate strategy from instructors and administrators.
About Us:
After attending a conference in 2014, Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle were inspired to create a resources website and social media community for online writing instructors called, The Online Writing Instruction Community (www.owicommunity.org). Along with their website, they created the PARS approach to online writing instruction. They wanted to create a framework that encompassed their philosophy of OWI and create a resources website to help online writing instructors who had little training and preparation, specifically for those who learned through "trial and error" like they did.
Since then they have become leaders in online writing instruction, distance education, and user experience research. They have co-authored one article and three books based on their PARS (personal, accessible, responsive, strategic) framework.
They are passionate about their work and about helping those with limited resources. They host workshops on online writing instruction, creating and managing accessible online courses, and successfully running fully online and/or hybrid writing programs.
Their first book (2019) was the winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award in 2020.
They also won the 2023-2024 Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field.
We can be reached at [email protected]
After attending a conference in 2014, Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle were inspired to create a resources website and social media community for online writing instructors called, The Online Writing Instruction Community (www.owicommunity.org). Along with their website, they created the PARS approach to online writing instruction. They wanted to create a framework that encompassed their philosophy of OWI and create a resources website to help online writing instructors who had little training and preparation, specifically for those who learned through "trial and error" like they did.
Since then they have become leaders in online writing instruction, distance education, and user experience research. They have co-authored one article and three books based on their PARS (personal, accessible, responsive, strategic) framework.
They are passionate about their work and about helping those with limited resources. They host workshops on online writing instruction, creating and managing accessible online courses, and successfully running fully online and/or hybrid writing programs.
Their first book (2019) was the winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award in 2020.
They also won the 2023-2024 Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field.
We can be reached at [email protected]
Jessie Borgman Arizona State University |
Casey McArdle Michigan State University |