Developing an Online Educational Curriculum

Developing an Online Curriculum: Technologies and Techniques acts as a guidebook for teachers and administrators as they look for support with their online education programs. It offers teaching suggestions for everything from course development to time management and community building. The book is designed to provide information to help teachers work more effectively with online tools, develop course materials for existing online courses, work with the internet as a medium of education and complete daily activities - such as evaluating assignments, lecturing and communicating with students more easily. Administrators are also given support in their efforts to recruit, train, and retain online teachers, allocate resources for online education and evaluate online materials for promotion and tenure.

Lynnette R. Porter is a writer and teacher who has taught online, web-enhanced, and on-site classes at several universities in the United States. She earned her M.A. in English and technical writing and a Ph.D. in English, with specializations in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication. Her research interests are varied, and she has presented conference papers or currently has papers under consideration for several international professional associations, including the Society for Technical Communication, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, National Business and Career Education Association, the Popular Culture Association, American Businesswomen’s Association, and Association for Business Communication. She is an associate fellow in the Society for Technical Communication.