Scholarly Hub for Innovative Networked Education (SHINE)

As research and work in Online Writing Instruction (OWI) continues to grow, we believe an open and free space is essential for the field - one that is informed by scholars and practitioners. Currently, there are several excellent searchable databases in writing studies, and historically there have been some earlier versions of OWI specific bibliographic collections but we feel in this post COVID-19 world, a resource specifically focused on the scholarship in distance education and OWI is critically needed. 

As a result, we have created the Scholarly Hub for Innovative Networked Education (SHINE), in an effort to collect, store, and share OWI/distance education research. The SHINE resource will be available free here on The OWI Community website.

In an effort to replace earlier OWI bibliography versions, the SHINE resource will list citations and summaries of all texts related to online writing instruction, teaching, online administration, learning in online spaces, teaching writing, literacy, and designing in digital spaces. 

Anyone who submits a source can choose to be listed as a contributor on the site because we feel you deserve to be noted for your work and effort in helping us create this valuable resource for all who teach in digitally mediated environments.

​Thus, we invite submissions to this online resource via this survey: https://forms.gle/nSumrQgKMTxhHH4t9  

The source(s) you submit do not have to be written by you. They can be your favorite pieces of scholarship related to distance education, etc. You can submit as many entries as you like. 

​We are grateful for your help in building the resource! 

Please Note:
At this time the SHINE resource is not available for viewing/searching as we are currently in the source collection phase of this project! We hope to have the viewing/searching feature up and running by the end of 2025 so check back!

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