Why We Won't See Textbooks in Our Disciplinary Rear View Mirror in the Near Future

Rochelle Rodrigo

Teaching English in the Two-Year College Vol. 39, No. 3 (March 2012) pp. 309–311

Although not everyone needs textbooks, they still actively serve four audiences within the discipline. The four audiences that benefit from textbooks are students, instructors, the textbook sales force, and the textbook authors themselves. With a...

Motivation and play: How faculty continue to learn new technologies

Rochelle L. Rodrigo

(2009) pp. 1–156

With the administrative push for degree programs offered in a distance-learning format, many writing programs in institutions of higher education across the United States have been required to make first-year composition courses available in a web...

Managing Digital Technologies in Writing Programs: Writing Program Technologists & Invisible Service

Rochelle Rodrigo; Julia Romberger

Computers and Composition Vol. 44, No. 1 (June 2017) pp. 67–82

As institutions that include Writing Studies (Rhetoric and Composition, Business, Technical and Professional Writing) in their curriculum at various levels increasingly move to include more digital technology infrastructural support for classes,...

Language: English

Determining effective distance learning designs through usability testing

Susan K. Miller-Cochran; Rochelle L. Rodrigo

Computers and Composition Vol. 23, No. 1 pp. 91–107

To add to the developing understanding of Web-based writing instruction, we conducted usability testing to assess the design of our online first-year composition courses at a large community college in the Southwest. Beyond the course-specific...

Language: English

You 3.0: The Most Important Evolving Technology

Molly Tamarkin; David A. Bantz; Melody Childs; Stephen diFilipo; Stephen G. Landry; Frances LoPresti; Robert H. McDonald; John W. McGuthry; Tina Meier; Rochelle Rodrigo; Jennifer Sparrow; D Teddy Diggs; Catherine W. Yang

EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 45, No. 6 (2010) pp. 31–32

That technology evolves is a given. Not as well understood is the impact of technological evolution on each individual--on oneself, one's skill development, one's career, and one's relationship with the work community. The authors believe that...