ENG 5933 Summer 2018 Neal

This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in hybrid or online course design and pedagogy. As opportunities to teach online increase, formal training and experience can make graduate students more appealing to institutions developing their online instructional programs. At the same time, we often find ourselves weighing the values that we rightly associate with face-to-face education and the social and cultural influences that promote distance education-some of which are commendable (e.g., access, disability, flexibility) while others are consumerist (e.g., cost, efficiency, productivity). This course will include scholarly readings and critiques of online teaching in addition to best online/hybrid teaching practices. By offering this course as a hybrid model of instruction, graduate students can experience and participate in the kind of class we will be studying. While much of the work and interaction will be done online, students need to be in Tallahassee and available to meet on select Tuesday and Thursdays during Summer B for face-to-face class meetings. This will not be a self-paced, modular approach to online teaching. Rather, we will engage in discussion, workshops, collaboration, and curriculum development. In addition to reading scholarly publications and professional documents, students will produce syllabi, assignments, video instruction, modules, and other materials that will help them prepare for teaching hybrid or online courses. All of the teaching materials will be accompanied by a pedagogical rationale statement and an online/hybrid teaching philosophy. While the focus for the course will be developing materials for online and hybrid composition classes based on local needs and opportunities, the pedagogical knowledge and practical course building can apply to courses in English beyond college composition.