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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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