Journal article
Global Efforts to Professionalize Online Literacy Instructors: GSOLE's Basic OLI Certification
Composition studies, Vol.49(3)
22 Sep 2021
Abstract
Rather than this course design describing a student-facing course, the course design that follows describes GSOLE's Basic Online Literacy Instruction (OLI) Certification courses for instructors within our discipline (our Basic OLI Certification). Because the course is instructor-facing, and we recognize these instructors are our colleagues, we have chosen to use the word participant to name them (instead of calling them students, even those they hold the student role in the courses). The original conception of the organization, which essentially came from Beth Hewett, was a professional organization that would validate the teaching practices of online writing teachers (later literacy came to replace writing). Would an army of volunteers simply run the entire certification process? Because of these challenges, there were several false starts in trying to get a certification course up and running, and we decided to move away from the certification once GSOLE launched. Scholars in OLI recommend professionalization for online instructors include learning about different instructional modalities (Mick and Middlebrook; Snart), understanding how delivery formats and modalities can impact student learning (Boyd; Harris et al.), designing and justifying accessible OLI curriculum that leverages the affordances of the online space (Cargile Cook; DePew; Nielsen; Oswal and Meloncon; Rodrigo), enhancing teaching practices to confront student retention issues that often surface in online learning (Borgman and Dockter; Harris and McCloud), and considering how OLI theory can
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- Title
- Global Efforts to Professionalize Online Literacy Instructors: GSOLE's Basic OLI Certification
- Creators
- Amy CicchinoKevin DePewJason SnartScott Warnock
- Publication Details
- Composition studies, Vol.49(3)
- Publisher
- University of Cincinnati on behalf of Composition Studies
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Identifiers
- 991021861671604721