Just a Tool: Instructors' Attitudes and Use of Course Management Systems for Online Writing Instruction

This study uses interview and observation data from first-year composition instructors to determine how instructors' experiences with course management systems (CMSs) influence their teaching practices within those spaces. I determine that although instructors recognize the potential significance of CMSs, there is still a great disparity between instructors' practices in face-to-face and CMS spaces with many instructors failing to see their use of CMSs as part of their pedagogical practice.