TY - GEN
T1 - Community, context, and distance education
AU - Rothfork, John
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This paper makes recommendations about teaching online professional courses to students lacking relevant professional experience. The course was on ethics and professional writing. Students substituted personal ethics for professional ethics and relied on the skills they had in textual explication and narrative development to defend personal judgments. Instead of putting greater emphasis on theory and formal analysis, the author recommends simulating the experience of professional writing by relying on case study methods, peer critiques, and Internet resources, such as discussion boards where professional writers gossip, complain, and argue about their professional experience.
AB - This paper makes recommendations about teaching online professional courses to students lacking relevant professional experience. The course was on ethics and professional writing. Students substituted personal ethics for professional ethics and relied on the skills they had in textual explication and narrative development to defend personal judgments. Instead of putting greater emphasis on theory and formal analysis, the author recommends simulating the experience of professional writing by relying on case study methods, peer critiques, and Internet resources, such as discussion boards where professional writers gossip, complain, and argue about their professional experience.
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U2 - 10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286514
DO - 10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286514
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:3042690054
SN - 0769521088
SN - 9780769521084
T3 - International Conference on Information Technology: Coding Computing, ITCC
SP - 546
EP - 550
BT - International Conferen ON Information Technology
A2 - Srimani, P.K.
A2 - Abraham, A.
A2 - Cannataro, M.
A2 - Domingo-Ferrer, J.
A2 - Hashemi, R.
T2 - International Conference on Information Technology: Coding Computing, ITCC 2004
Y2 - 5 April 2004 through 7 April 2004
ER -