Casey McArdle
Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures Michigan State University
- East Lansing MI
Casey McArdle examines online interaction via academic, professional, and social spaces.
Media
Biography
Industry Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Fixed-term and Academic Specialist Leadership Excellence Award
2021
Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award Winner
2020
#iteachmsu Award
2019
Service Award for Graduate Students and Adjuncts
2017
Education
Ball State University
Ph.D.
Composition and Rhetoric
2014
Indiana University
M.A.
English and Linguistics
2005
Denison University
B.A.
English
1997
Affiliations
- The Online Writing Instruction Community
- Global Society for Online Literacy Educators
- User Experience Professionals Association
- National Council of Teachers of English
- Modern Language Association
- International Writing Center Association
- National Writing Project
Links
News
Professors navigate use of artificial intelligence in the classroom
The State News online
2023-09-13
Some professors also use AI to assist with their own work. MSU director of Experience Architecture Casey McArdle enjoys having AI around for his research purposes. McArdle saying that it can help with research and can introduce him to different lines of research that he hasn't considered.
Teach Access announces partnership with Michigan State University
Teach Access online
2023-04-04
“It means so much to myself and to our program to be able to partner with Teach Access, who shares our values and goals when it comes to curriculum, academic leadership, and educating scholars and industry professionals on the importance of accessibility,” said Dr. Casey McArdle, director of undergraduate studies at MSU’s Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC).
Journal Articles
Deploying UX Methods in an Intro to Accessibility Class: How to Get Student Buy-In Across Disciplines
Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication2023
This article will describe how UX methods were deployed in an introduction to accessibility course, which was designed and built to introduce accessibility to students across multiple and varied disciplines at Michigan State University. I will provide background on the program that created the course, a description of the course modules, the UX methods used, and the feedback from students who took the course.
Continuous delivery: A PARS online course development cycle
Computers and Composition2022
This article explores applying User-Experience (UX) research and a software development approach called Continuous Delivery (CD) to the process of designing, developing, and maintaining online courses. We will illustrate how readers can use our PARS (personal, accessible, responsive, strategic) framework, UX best practices, and CD to create more accessible content for the users of their online courses.
Finding a teaching a11y: Designing an accessibility-centered pedagogy
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication2021
This article describes our work to build an undergraduate program in user experience centered on empathy, access, and humanism. About the case: This teaching case is focused on how we situated accessibility (a11y, a numeronym) at the core of our undergraduate degree. Based on our program values, industry experience, and market need, we aimed to build a program that focused on accessibility.
