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Education and Training Stem Overview 
The field of technical communication is transforming at a rapid rate, responding to scientific and technological advancements, economic pressures, and social changes. This makes our field exciting and challenging. The excitement and challenge is intensified for educators and trainers, because we must stay high on the learning curve in order to help prepare others to meet the challenges and prosper by the changes. At the same time, we must be sure to integrate new knowledge, technologies, and skills with what is valuable in the old rather than simply letting the new displace the old.
Hirst, Russel. STC Proceedings (1996). Presentations>Education>TC
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The Impact of Current Trends on TCOM Curricula 
Rapidly changing processes in internationalization, in emerging technologies, and in instructional delivery systems require program directors and faculty to constantly evaluate and re-evaluate the extent to which they consider these changes in curricula development. This evaluation should not necessarily result in curricula molded in the image of industry, for many changes in technological processes are ephemeral.
Rainey, Kenneth T. CPTSC Proceedings (2003). Presentations>Education>TC
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Is the Future Identity of Technical Communication Specialization or Diversity? 
Technology has paradoxically expanded and contracted technical communication. With the expansion of jobs, particularly in computer documentation and Web development, the demand for academic programs to graduate these workers has also increased. In turn the demand for graduate programs to prepare the teachers for those programs has expanded. Even the growth of international communication as an area of study has followed largely from the export of technology.
Rude, Carolyn D. CPTSC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>TC>Education
