Professional Development in Online Teaching and Learning in Technical Communication A Ten-Year Retrospective | Media & Cultural Studies

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Technical communication instructors need professional development opportunities that will aid them in creating their online courses; in developing curricula; and in teaching in what may be a new environment. Although instructors can turn to instructional design teams for assistance in using Learning Management System and its functions they specifically need their own first-hand immersive learning within their pedagogical training. In other words teachers need to learn in an online context like the environment that their students will use; such direct training helps instructors to facilitate student learning in a technologically distributed classroom. Beyond learning technological skills to …