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Negotiating Space: Exploring the Rhetorical Potential of Open Source Software

Beerline, Nora
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1304015386

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2011, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, English.
Virtual learning environments have received little academic or critical attention pertaining to their rhetorical implications or their effects on the agency of their users. While some scholarsSurvey Design and Analysis for Energy StatisticsCynthia and Richard Selfe (1994) and Darin Payne (2005)Survey Design and Analysis for Energy Statisticshave issued calls for increased academic engagement with the software designers and developers of virtual educational spaces, or Learning Management Systems (LMSs), few have heeded that call. The growing popularity of open source software creates an opportunity for a renewed dialogue about what educators and software developers can accomplish at the local level to create and maintain virtual learning spaces that accurately reflect the goals and values of local institutions, faculty, and students. This thesis enters into that conversation by directly addressing the people involved in the building and development of virtual pedagogical spaces. This is accomplished by focusing on a specific LMS (Isidore) in a specific local environment (the University of Dayton).
Slade Andrew (Committee Chair)
48 p.
Composition; Rhetoric
LMS; CMS; VLE; virtual space; rhetoric of technology; rhetoric of functionality

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  • Beerline, N. (2011). Negotiating Space: Exploring the Rhetorical Potential of Open Source Software [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1304015386

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Beerline, Nora. Negotiating Space: Exploring the Rhetorical Potential of Open Source Software. 2011. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1304015386.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Beerline, Nora. "Negotiating Space: Exploring the Rhetorical Potential of Open Source Software." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1304015386

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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