Training Technical and Professional Communication Educators for Online Internship Courses

ABSTRACT

This article explores how to train educators to teach online internship courses. The article introduces an online internship course focused on workplace communication available to students across the university. Approaches to training educators to teach this course include requiring educators to immerse themselves in experiential learning situations, leveraging innovative uses of contemporary technologies for communication, and reflecting on online teaching processes.

KEYWORDS:

• Experiential learning
• internship
• online education
• pedagogy
• service-learning

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Jennifer Bay

Jennifer L. Bay is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, where she teaches courses in rhetorical theory, professional writing, feminist rhetorics, and community engagement. Her work has appeared in journals such as College English, JAC, Programmatic Perspectives, and The Writing Instructor, as well as in edited collections.