Creating Inclusive and Engaging Online Courses: A Teaching Guide PDF
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Creating Inclusive and Engaging Online Courses ELGAR GUIDES TO TEACHING The Elgar Guides to Teaching series provides a variety of resources for instructors looking for new ways to engage students. Each volume provides a unique set of materials and insights that will help both new and seasoned teachers expand their toolbox in order to teach more effec- tively. Titles include selections of methods, exercises, games and teach- ing philosophies suitable for the particular subject featured. Each volume is authored or edited by a seasoned professor. Edited volumes comprise contributions from both established instructors and newer faculty who offer fresh takes on their fields of study. Titles in the series include: Teaching Entrepreneurship, Volume Two A Practice-Based Approach Edited by Heidi M. Neck, Candida G. Brush and Patricia G. Greene Teaching Environmental Impact Assessment Angus Morrison-Saunders and Jenny Pope Teaching Research Methods in Political Science Edited by Jeffrey L. Bernstein Teaching International Relations Edited by James M. Scott, Ralph G. Carter, Brandy Jolliff Scott and Jeffrey S. Lantis Teaching Marketing Edited by Ross Brennan and Lynn Vos Teaching Tourism Innovative, Values-based Learning Experiences for Transformative Practices Edited by Johan R. Edelheim, Marion Joppe and Joan Flaherty Teaching Sports Economics and Using Sports to Teach Economics Edited by Victor A. Matheson and Aju J. Fenn Creating Inclusive and Engaging Online Courses A Teaching Guide Edited by Monica Sanders Creating Inclusive and Engaging Online Courses A Teaching Guide Edited by Monica Sanders Faculty, Georgetown University Law Center and Senior Fellow, Tulane Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, USA ELGAR GUIDES TO TEACHING Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA © Monica Sanders 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2022932893 This book is available electronically in the Political Science and Public Policy subject collection http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800888883 ISBN 978 1 80088 887 6 (cased) ISBN 978 1 80088 888 3 (eBook) EEP BoX Contents List of figures vii List of tables viii List of contributors ix Foreword xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgements xxiii 1 Introduction to Creating Inclusive and Engaging Online Courses 1 Monica Sanders PART I COURSE ACCESSIBILITY AND COPYRIGHT 2 Democratizing course access 11 Eileen Young 3 Considering copyright in your courses 24 Raven Lanier PART II THE TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCE 4 Inclusive course design 37 LiAnne Brown 5 Accessibility tools 58 Monica Sanders 6 Managing pace and workload in online courses 71 Susannah McGowan 7 Apps, tools and assignment ideas for online engagement 88 Monica Sanders v vi Creating inclusive and engaging online courses 8 Developing and incorporating impactful library research guides for online and hybrid learners 103 Ladislava Khailova Appendix I: Notes and additional resources for inclusive, engaging online course design 120 Appendix II: Copyright checklist 123 Appendix III: ADAA 132 Bibliography 134 Index 141 Figures 2.1 Accessibility coding 21 3.1 Duck wearing sunglasses 28 3.2 Creative Commons licenses 30 4.1 “Diversity Wheel as used at Johns Hopkins University” is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 38 4.2 Graphic representation of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 39 4.3 The Community of Inquiry Venn Diagram 40 5.1 Image UDOIT Accessibility Toolkit 62 6.1 Fall 2020: Visual of a Hyflex classroom 78 6.2 Spring 2021, sample semester by week to visualize pacing 80 6.3 Sample weekly schedule 81 6.4 Example of a Canvas Module 84 8.1 GU SCS Library LibGuide for the SCS Supply Chain Management MPS Program 107 vii Tables 2.1 Rich text vs plain text 19 2.2 HTML cheat sheet 20 4.1 Activity structures 48 6.1 Faculty participation in CNDLS programs 72 7.1 Animation and storyboard applications 98 7.2 Skills and assessment chart 101 viii Contributors ABOUT THE EDITOR Monica Sanders JD, LL.M Monica Sanders is the Managing Director of the Georgetown Environmental Justice Program and holds a faculty appointment at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Tulane University Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy. Her expe- rience as a practitioner includes serving as the Senior Legal Advisor for International Response and Programs at the American Red Cross, and as an attorney for the Small Business Administration during the Hurricane Maria and western wildfires responses. She was a Senior Committee Counsel for both the House of Representatives and Senate Committees on Homeland Security. In her academic career, she has championed open educational resources, universal course design, affordable materials as well as diversity and inclusion in both traditional and online learning. Her approach to working with students is centered in their experiences, and influenced by practical experience in dealing with clients and communities. Professor Sanders has designed equity themed courses and created a fully open access law casebook. In addition to editing and writing for this handbook, she is pursuing an electronic legal textbook project. CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS LiAnne Brown LiAnne Brown is a senior instructional designer and learning architect with over 15 years of experience in curriculum development and course design. Ms. Brown earned her Master of Science in Education (focus on Instructional Design for Online Learning) from Capella University. She has designed and taught several live, online, and blended learning ix
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