ABSTRACT
In 2007, Hewett and Ehmann Powers developed a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly called “Online Teaching and Learning: Preparation, Development, and Organizational Communication” to consider organizational concerns and educators’ necessary professional development preparation and strategies for teaching in online settings. With distance education continuing to grow at a rapid pace, composition scholars have increasingly studied and reported on the efficacy of online courses. The studies vary in content, from focusing on student-perceived success in the online classroom to measuring the comparability of online courses to their face-to-face counterparts. The online writing instruction (OWI) survey results discussed in the Conference on Composition and Communication Committee for Effective Practices in Online Writing Instruction's The State of the Art of OWI identified that few online writing instructors were required to attend training sessions before teaching.
