Technical Communication Quarterly Jul 2017

Revising the Online Classroom: Usability Testing for Training Online Technical Communication Instructors

Joseph Bartolotta Hofstra University ; Tiffany Bourelle ; Julianne Newmark

Abstract

This article reports on an effort by the authors to use usability testing as a component of online teacher training for their multimajor technical communication course. The article further explains the ways in which program administrators at other institutions can create their own usability testing protocols for formative online teacher training in course design and in principles of user-centered design.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2017-07-03
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2017.1339495
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