Peggy Semingson

Peggy Semingson is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Arlington where she teaches online courses in Literacy Studies. Dr. Semingson has experience as a classroom teacher and reading specialist in both Southern California and Texas. Her research interests include social contexts of literacy learning, digital pedagogies, and online literacy teacher education. She currently also studies the ways that we can use digital pedagogies to engage pre-service and in-service teachers to most effectively help them to teach literacy in their current and future classroom contexts. Within this area, she is interested in knowledge sharing that takes place online, distributed cognition, and video-mediated (e.g., YouTube) discussion and dialogue. She has published in Teachers College Record, Language Arts, and Research in the Teaching of English. She was awarded the Jeanne S. Chall Research Grant from Harvard University in 2009-2010 and was awarded the prestigious 2013 USDLA Best Practices Platinum Award for Excellence in Distance Learning Teaching. In 2010 she was awarded the President’s Award for Excellence in Distance Education Teaching at UT Arlington. Most recently she won the 2017 International Literacy Association (ILA) Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award.

Publications

The Community of Inquiry Framework in Contemporary Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities
The Community of Inquiry Framework in Contemporary Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Peggy Semingson, Pete Smith, Henry I. Anderson. © 2018. 139 pages.
The primary challenge of online education is bridging the distance, both geographical and psychological, between student-and-teacher and student-and-student dynamics. In today’s...
Scaffolding Digital Writing and Storytelling in Online-Only Teacher Education Courses
Scaffolding Digital Writing and Storytelling in Online-Only Teacher Education Courses
Peggy Semingson, Amanda Hurlbut, Dana Owens, Marla Robertson. © 2017. 24 pages.
Higher education is seeing increasing trends towards online education (Allen & Seaman, 2010). This chapter provides a framework for the inclusion of digital writing with online...