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The program, called eComp (short for Electronic Composition), insists that instructors receive formal and educational training before working in the model. In addition, the curriculum taught within the first-year writing courses attends to multimodal literacies, and students receive help with their drafts from various sources, including instructional assistants who are tutors embedded in each course shell. This profile describes the program, including the scholarship that informed its design, the pilot project, and results from a small-scale assessment. Furthermore, we discuss future expansion of the program. This program description can serve as a model—in whole or in part—for other English departments when structuring a successful, integrative online program that emphasizes teacher training and multimodal literacies.  \nIt seems as if distance education is finding a comfortable home in many universities, with a reported 6.1 million students taking at least one online course in 2011 (Allen and Seaman 8) . The Sloan Consortium reports that this number is increasing at a faster rate than face-to-face (f2f) enrollment (Allen and Seaman 4) . Students enjoy the freedom of online education, with many indicating they like the ease and flexibility it allows (Wu and Hiltz) . However, as this mode of education increases, it remains imperative that we, as educators, learn how to respond to the needs of students. Indeed, although students believe online learning to be a convenient alternative to f2f classes, David Armstrong suggests that many feel that this convenience “comes with a price: in gaining independence, self–directed learning, they were losing direction from and communication with instructors” (224) .  \nIn Preparing Educators for Online Writing Instruction, Beth Hewett and Christa Ehmann Powers posit that like students, teachers are also concerned about personal contact with their online students (xii) . The authors suggest that many instructors feel skepticism, frustration, and concern when faced with the idea of teaching online. In addition to the lack of personal interaction, online writing teachers express concerns about the increased time commitment the online forum may require; for example, at times they write more extensive responses than they would in f2f classes but remain “uncertain as to whether and how they have effected useful learning experiences”  \n(xii) . These concerns may arise because of the fundamental differences between teaching and learning in a digital medium as opposed to an f2f one (Hewett and Powers) . One of those differences, Powers states in A Study of Online Writing Instructor Perceptions, is knowing how to address students’ challenges with writing in an f2f setting but struggling to do so in an online course (166) . As Hewett points out in The Online Writing Conference: A Guide for Teachers and Tutors , online writing instruction “requires us to rethink both the instructor-to-class and the instructor-to-student interactions”(xv) . However, Hewett and Powers also note that a main reason for these concerns is because teachers are untrained in teaching writing courses online.  \nWe believe it is imperative that teachers receive training in online teaching, where they learn to interact with students in meaningful ways and to provide a quality education for distance students. To establish teacher training and offer an effective education for our students at the University of New Mexico, we have recently implemented anew,","cbCaioGWUYnoccy2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioGWUYnoccy2","pdf",127106,21,"English","# Composition Forum 32, Fall 2015\n## eComp at the University of New Mexico: Emphasizing Twenty-first Century Literacies in an Online Composition Program","[{\"question\":\"What is eComp, and how does it support first-year writing online?\",\"answer\":\"eComp is an Electronic Composition program that delivers first-year composition fully online while addressing multimodal literacies. Students get help with drafts through instructional assistants embedded in each course shell.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the program require instructor training?\",\"answer\":\"The program insists that instructors receive formal educational training before working in the online model. 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