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Technologies and Tensions: Designing Online Environments for Teaching Technical Communication

Introduction: Technology and Traditional Collides This chapter discusses how technical communication teachers and researchers (in particular, untenured teachers and researchers) who work in virtual spaces need to be aware of the traditional contexts that surround them; that is, we need to acknowledge the complex web of departmental, institutional, political, and extra-organizational factors that envelops our work in the areas of electronic interconnectivity, collaboration, and the virtual distribution of information. Specifically, I assert that as technical communication faculty motivated to integrate technology into our research and our classrooms, we often mistakenly believe that the problem we face is a technical, rather than contextual one.