Topic Area: Information Session
Presented by: Casey McArdle, Jessie Borgman
Abstract:
Casey McArdle and Jessie Borgman will share what they have learned over their years of experience teaching online in this session and will present on their approach to teaching writing online via PARS: Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic. This session will go in depth with each letter and provide an opportunity for participants to see the approach in action via examples and give attendees an opportunity to ask questions. McArdle and Borgman will offer several quick and easy strategies that online instructors and administrators can incorporate into their classes to facilitate a better user experience for both faculty and students. This session and the PARS approach, while developed for teaching writing online, can be applied to numerous disciplines. They have two recently published books, one that discusses the PARS approach and how it can be applied to teaching online, and another that is an edited collection of educators who have applied PARS to their online classrooms. This session will consist of a brief presentation of the PARS approach, a few small activities, and then a question and answer portion.
