CAHSS Faculty & Graduate Student Present at GSOLE

Writing and Communication Center (WCC) Faculty Coordinator, Janine Morris (CAHSS), and Administrative Coordinator, Nikki Chasten (CAHSS Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Master’s Student), presented at the third annual Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) conference on January 31, 2020.

GSOLE is an international organization for online educators to connect with those who teach digital literacies in the areas of reading, alphabetic writing, and multimodal composition. The annual conference focuses on online literacy education, and discusses topics such as constraints and support for online literacy educators, best online classroom practices, visual and multimodal literacy enhancement, course and program accessibility, digital composition, and much more.

Morris presented results of a study supported by a 2017 CCCC Research Initiative Grant, alongside Catrina Mitchum (Arizona State University) and Marcela Hebbard (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). Their presentation, “Removing Virtual Boundaries: Student Backgrounds as Sites for Literacy Education” argued for the importance of getting to know students’ backgrounds in online courses to improve retention and literacy instruction.

Chasteen’s presentation, “Creating Collaborative Communities in Online Composition” discussed how online writing instructors can foster a sense of community among students by using collaborative pedagogy. “I have a strong passion for online instruction and I have made it the focus of my research in the Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital media program. It was an honor to present my findings to leaders in the field of online instruction,” said Chasteen.

View the 2020 GSOLE Conference Program: https://www.glosole.org/2020-conference-program.html

To learn more about the M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, visit: https://cahss.nova.edu/departments/wc/graduate/crdm/index.html