Crossing the Boundaries of Instruction: Assessing Web-Based Courses

We recently conducted survey research to discover students' responses to our web-based courses and online programs. We wanted to know their reactions to the course materials, teaching methods, interactions with faculty and other students, as well as their own competence in the particular subject area following such as course. While we are discovering that students are generally satisfied with all aspects of the courses, they express valid and noteworthy concerns.

Tovey, Janice and Michelle F. Eble. CPTSC Proceedings (2003). Articles>Education>Assessment>Online

Introduction to Editing and Abstracting

Course goals: to prepare you to communicate effectively, ethically, responsibly, and professionally in a professional environment; to provide you with skills, strategies, and conceptual knowledge to help you understand aspects of editing and abstracting; to help you understand the symbiotic relationships among form and content, and audience and purpose; and to give you practice expressing writing and editing your own work as well as peers' and to improve your own individual communication and management skills.

Tovey, Janice. East Carolina University (2003). Academic>Courses>Editing

Special Topics in Technical and Professional Communication:  Grant Writing

Course goals: to prepare you to communicate effectively, ethically, responsibly, and professionally in a workplace environment; to provide you with skills, strategies, and conceptual knowledge to help you address a variety of communication and research tasks related to grant proposal writing; to help you understand the symbiotic relationships among form and content, and audience and purpose; and to give you practice in researching, writing, reviewing, and editing a grant proposal, and to improve your own individual communication and management skills.

Tovey, Janice. East Carolina University (2003). Academic>Courses>Graduate

Technical Writing

Course goals: to prepare you to communicate effectively, ethically, responsibly, and professionally in a business environment; to provide you with skills, strategies, and conceptual knowledge to help you address a variety of communication tasks; to help you understand the symbiotic relationships among form and content, and audience and purpose; and to give you practice in collaborating with other professionals in managing and completing group projects, and to improve your own individual communication and management skills.

Tovey, Janice. East Carolina University (2002). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Technical Writing