Designing virtual team projects with accessibility in mind: an illustrative example of cross‐cultural student collaboration
Designing virtual team projects with accessibility in mind: an illustrative example of cross‐cultural student collaboration
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设计虚拟团队项目时考虑到可访问性：跨文化学生协作的说明性示例
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10.21827/jve.4.37192
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发表时间：
2021
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Rita Koris
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Sushil K. Oswal;Zsuzsanna B. Palmer;Rita Koris
我们报告的跨学科的第二年的研究结果，在一个欧洲和两个美国大学的学生和教师之间的国际合作。本研究的目的是探讨我们从一年级到二年级改变四个教学要素是否影响了学生的学习观念。教学协作本身的主要目的是让学生参与真正的协作学习活动，以支持他们在商业环境中理解残疾和无障碍概念。商务英语课程的学生为他们的企业提出了创业公司的建议并制定了商业计划。专业写作入门课程的学生为计划中的企业设计网站，而网关技术通信课程的学生则担任其他两个课程的顾问，指导如何使拟议的企业和网站对残疾人无障碍。我们通过项目前和项目后调查收集了定量和定性数据。这些数据补充了来自学生互动，学生提交（工作产品），视频会议会议记录和教师笔记的定性数据。分析显示，学生们报告说，他们对残疾问题的认识有所提高，对寻找无障碍问题的解决办法持开放态度。
We report on the results of the second-year study of an interdisciplinary, international collaboration among students and instructors at one European and two US universities. The purpose of the study was to examine whether our changing four pedagogical elements from Year 1 to Year 2 affected the students’ perceptions of learning. The primary purpose of the pedagogical collaboration itself was to involve students in authentic collaborative learning activities intended to support them in developing an understanding of disability and accessibility concepts in a business context. Students in a business English course proposed start-up companies and created business plans for their ventures. Students in an introductory professional writing course designed websites for the planned businesses, while students in a gateway technical communication course served as advisors to the other two classes regarding how to make the proposed businesses and websites accessible to people with disabilities. We collected quantitative and qualitative data through pre- and post-project surveys. These data were supplemented with qualitative data from student interactions, student submissions (work products), video conference meeting minutes, and instructors’ notes. The analysis revealed that students reported increased awareness of disability and openness to finding solutions for accessibility issues.