The fourth issue of JEO, the Journal of Educators Online, has six papers.    There was one, on the “Instructional Uses of Web-Based Survey Software” which I though might interest me, but didn’t, and four, one on health care, one or corporate finance, one of the performing arts, and one on DE in China, that, rightly or wrongly, I ducked.

That left "Writing Across the Curriculum – An Online Course in Computer Security".    IT training, and writing essays are, as the author points our, unfamiliar bedfellows.    Yet IT professionals arguably need to be taught writing skills more than most.    So the idea of developing an online writing course for IT trainees makes good sense.    And computer security, important and fast-developing, is a good choice of topic.

The article talks us through the development of the course in some detail:   how they made it work, what they achieved, and what they learned.    True, there were times when it read like a course from within an IT department rather than, say, a creative writing one.    But that doesn’t really detract.    Useful.

Source:   JEO January 2006