Our Mission:
With our website, we wish to confirm that teaching online is different than teaching in a face-to-face setting. Our site aims to raise awareness of the multitude of research and resources available to online instructors and more specifically, online writing instructors; to advertise books, sites, and tools that could help new and existing online instructors with the facilitation of their courses.
When we (click here to learn more about us!) created this website in 2015 our goal was to create an online, academic resource that provides a sense of community for online writing instructors around the globe and that encourages the use of recent online writing instruction (OWI) scholarship, the sharing of assignments, feedback, and course design ideas. We feel we've done just that!
We hope that this site will inspire online writing instructors to shape their pedagogy around the PARS OWI Philosophy.
With our website, we wish to confirm that teaching online is different than teaching in a face-to-face setting. Our site aims to raise awareness of the multitude of research and resources available to online instructors and more specifically, online writing instructors; to advertise books, sites, and tools that could help new and existing online instructors with the facilitation of their courses.
When we (click here to learn more about us!) created this website in 2015 our goal was to create an online, academic resource that provides a sense of community for online writing instructors around the globe and that encourages the use of recent online writing instruction (OWI) scholarship, the sharing of assignments, feedback, and course design ideas. We feel we've done just that!
We hope that this site will inspire online writing instructors to shape their pedagogy around the PARS OWI Philosophy.
Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors |
PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors |
Drawing on their novel PARS framework, Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle explore the complexities and anxieties associated with online writing instruction. PARS offers an innovative way to support your own online instructional efforts as well as those of faculty members in programs that offer online writing instruction. Borgman and McArdle offer extensive examples of how to create assignments, syllabi, and accessible, productive learning spaces.
Drawing on work in the design of user experiences, they explore how we can design online writing courses with our students' experiences in mind. Borgman and McArdle encourage us to plan online writing courses strategically, and they reinforce the importance of iterating our course design and teaching practices continually with the goal of creating a better user experience for everyone involved with the course.
Released October 2019
Visit the WAC website to download the open access copy: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/pars |
By focusing on being Personal, Accessible, Responsive, and Strategic (PARS), this book explores the complexities and anxieties associated with online writing instruction (OWI). The PARS approach is an innovative way to self support your own online writing instruction and/or provide support for your OWI faculty.
This collection offers extensive examples of how to create personal assignments, syllabi, and learning spaces that connect with students while teaching you how to be accessible and craft accessible documents and spaces. The contributors assert that when you create an online writing course, you're crafting a user experience. With this in mind, they encourage you to be strategic in planning and teaching your online courses as you continually iterate your course design and teaching practices in an effort to create a better user experience for everyone. Released January 2021 Visit the WAC website to download the open access copy: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/pars2 |
Jessie Borgman Arizona State University |
Casey McArdle Michigan State University |