Technical Communication Quarterly Oct 2021

An Approach for Incorporating Community-Engaged Learning in Intensive Online Classes: Sustainability and Lean User Experience

Tatiana Batova Arizona State University

Abstract

Based on two user experience (UX) classes, this article describes an approach for incorporating community-engaged learning into intensive online classes. This approach relies on (1) sustainability for creating a flexible and meaningful thematic context with potential for an existing community engagement infrastructure and (2) the lean UX framework for serving as a foundation of the course structure. This approach showed promising results for students, community stakeholders, and faculty and is transferrable to various institutional contexts.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2021-10-02
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2020.1860257
Open Access
Closed
Topics
technical communication

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