Teaching Writing Online: How and Why Scott Warnock  Reviewed by
Geoffrey C. Middlebrook University of Southern California
Webtext design by John M. Bonham University of Southern
California  The Context  Given the above-mentioned data
regarding the rising size and significance of online education,
I am convinced Teaching Writing Online and comparable books
should at a minimum be read through a matrix that Ali Jafari,
Patricia McGee, and Colleen Carmean correlate with the needs and
preferences of three key stakeholders: students, faculty, and
administrators (among the latter are technologists). An even
more illuminating analytical instrument can be found in the
Sloan Consortium's Five Pillars of Quality Online Education:
learning effectiveness; scale (cost effectiveness and
commitment); access; faculty satisfaction; and student
satisfaction. The aim of this framework is not a rigid taxonomy
that implies finality and universality, but rather, in the words
of Sloan, it is an evolving and flexible construct meant