ABSTRACT
Online teaching and learning have become common to many academic and business organizations. Within academia in particular, a growing number of traditional colleges and universities currently conduct academic courses—such as rhetoric and technical communication—in the online environment. Many times, students need acculturative exercises to assess their readiness for the online environment as well as possible follow-up orientation. In the same vein, those who are teaching online and administering programs also need orientation and training for their own readiness in the online environment. Similarly, nontraditional educational institutions that provide learning assistance to distance learners, for example, also conduct employee training and development. They provide online consumer-based education in common subjects as well. Online training quite often occurs at a distance and engages distance learning principles and processes for online instructors much like those that their distance-based students will experience.
