A Note About the Critical Analyses Chapters
Rob Power
The following chapters will represent contributions by participants from some of my instructional design and educational technology courses. Each interactive chapter is submitted as a major course assignment. It is then “blind” peer-reviewed by classmates, including through the use of checklists and rubrics for accessibility developed as one of their course activities. The range of sub-themes and the number of chapters that follow in this “living text” will expand and evolve, as new chapters are submitted during subsequent course offerings.
Implementing the eBook Chapter Assignment
The following is a generalized version of the instructions provided to students in my courses for the three stages of this assignment. Feel free to adopt and adapt as necessary if you plan to implement a similar project with your own students!
eBook Chapter Assignment: Part 1 (Draft Chapter)
 Overview
You will prepare a research paper that identifies an Accessibility issue for teaching and learning in a K12, higher education, or workplace training context, and that proposes proposed solutions to that issue through the integration of instructional design strategies and potential digital teaching and learning resources.
Your paper should be approximately 2000-2500 words, and should be formatted according to APA v7 guidelines, and should also adhere to formatting guidelines for document accessibility.
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eBook Chapter Assignment: Part 2 (Audit Report)
 Overview
Utilizing rubrics that will be developed as a class activity during Week 8 (see the Developing an Audit Checklist chapter), you will “audit” one of your classmate’s paper submissions from eBook Assignment Part 1 (Draft Chapter), before publication of that paper as part of a fully-accessible, open-access eBook project.
You will prepare an “audit report” (max 1000 words) that follows APA v7 guidelines, as well as general document accessibility guidelines, that:
- Describes the criteria used to evaluate or audit digital resources, such as the group presentation sites, and the rationale for those criteria.
- Discusses the auditing process, and the findings of the auditing process.
- Makes recommendations for reducing or mitigating potential accessibility issues such as those found through the group presentation auditing process, and in a general context for anyone creating their own digital teaching and learning resources.
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eBook Chapter Assignment: Part 3 (Final Publication)
 Overview
For this assignment, you will use the feedback received from your instructor for your draft eBook chapter submission, as well as the “audit report” submitted by one of your classmates, to complete edits and revisions to your major paper, and submit it for inclusion in a fully-accessible, open-access eBook project. You will submit your polished version of your paper to the eBook Assignment Part 3 drop box in the course. Your instructor will provide details on the publication platform in class.
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