Solution: Assessment

Similarly, in the developing field of online composition, proponents are also beginning to advocate the importance of course evaluation as we develop online courses, although most scholars come up with different vocabularies for the same concept. For example, while serving as chair of the CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) in 1999, Cynthia L. Selfe issued a wake-up call to compositionists that she reiterates in her book Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention. She warns that we have a moral responsibility to “pay attention” to the connection between literacy and technology and to examine the rhetorical and social effects of online environments (p. xix). Selfe asks us to embrace what she calls critical technological literacy. She explains that we generally use the term computer literacy to refer to the ability to use computers and computer software—basically, the mechanics of technology. Selfe expands this term into what she calls technological literacy.

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