International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 3, Number 1, January 2009
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Going Fully Online: Reflections on Creating an Engaging Environment for Online Learning
When faced with the major pedagogical shift of moving face-to-face classes online, two professors reflect on the process, the learning, and the ways in which they can retain face-to-face engagement in an asynchronous online environment. They share the results of student surveys and colleague emails, along with their own thoughts about moving classes online.
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Susan Wegmann
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida, USA
swegmann@mail.ucf.edu
For the past four years, I have been an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Content Area Literacy. In addition, I am the Co-Principal Investigator of the Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence (FLaRE) grant, working with reading coach coordinators in the state of Florida. I am also the Director of Programs for the upcoming Morgridge International Reading Center, to be housed on the UCF campus. I was graduated from the University of Florida (Ph.D.), the University of Mississippi (M.A.), and the University of South Florida (B.A.). My research interests include online and face-to-face classroom interactions, the scholarship of the craft of teaching, reading strategies in the content areas, and comprehension abilities and strategies.
Joyce McCauley
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas, USA
mccauley@shsu.edu
I am a Professor in the College of Education at Sam Houston State University where I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy including methods of teaching reading and writing, foundations of literacy, and the social, cultural and language influences on learning. I also supervise student teachers and am the advisor for the Master of Education in Reading program. I hold a B.A. in Elementary Education from the University of South Florida, an M.A. in Reading from the University of Guam, and a Ph.D. in Reading from Texas Woman’s University. My research interests include service learning, online teaching and learning, the scholarship of teaching and learning, drama in the language arts, and mentor teacher professional development.