Rhetorica. From The Seven Liberal Arts by Marten de Vos.

The Edu*Rhetor.org website has a unique vision to provide insight into the processes of research and communication projects that connect rhetoric to both higher education and society. This is a place to learn and critique  models for educating and producing good rhetoric.

• The emphasis on process is important. This site is not a place for the publication of research reports, rhetorical criticisms or the final communication outcomes, but rather a place where one learns how research projects, communication projects, or courses were structured and carried out.  Users of the website may learn by viewing samples of instructional materials, guidelines, proposals, plans, and works in progress.
• The connection between rhetoric and higher education may include the teaching and learning of rhetoric in formal higher education contexts or informal adult learning contexts where advanced principles of rhetoric are learned.  It may also include the study or production of rhetorics of teaching, learning, community building and administration that occur in formal higher education settings (colleges and universities’ organizational rhetoric, classroom/instructional rhetoric).
• The connection between rhetoric and society may include projects that produce public, community, or institutional rhetoric, or studies of any rhetorical process or performance in the public, community or institutional spheres.

The site currently provides semi-private instructional support and subdomains for student teams in the COMS463 course who are building website content for community organizations in Calgary and units of the University of Calgary.

Edu*Rhetor is administered by Dr. Tania Smith, created in October 2011 to supplement the Edu*Rhetor blog.