Reimagining Business Planning, Accessibility, and Web Design Instruction: A Stacked Interdisciplinary Collaboration Across National Boundaries
Autor: | Rita Koris, Sushil K. Oswal, Zsuzsanna B. Palmer |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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World Wide Web
Class (computer programming) 020204 information systems Communication 0502 economics and business 05 social sciences Web design 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 02 engineering and technology Sociology 050203 business & management Education Web accessibility |
Zdroj: | Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 51:429-467 |
ISSN: | 1541-3780 0047-2816 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0047281620966990 |
Popis: | The authors present the results of a study of a three-way international collaboration project among one Hungarian class and two classes from Michigan and Washington, respectively. This multifaceted study focused on business planning, web design, and accessibility with the aim of investigating the effect of accessibility instruction on the production of business plans and websites. The distinguishing feature of this study was its emphasis to orient the three student groups on disability and accessibility issues from the perspective of the critical social model of disability advanced by disability studies theorists. The researchers collected quantitative and qualitative pre/postproject survey data from their three classes. They combined this data with the text of student emails sent among the project teams and instructor notes about their teaching to arrive at conclusions about the effectiveness of the collaboration using a mixed-methods approach. The results from the data analyses revealed significant benefit of the client–provider relationships among the three classes and the accessibility instruction provided by the Washington class to the other two classes on the business plans and websites. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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