Creation of E-Books for Deaf Learners
Accompanying Text
The Use of Open Educational Access Publishing Platforms
to Create E-Books for Deaf Learners
This is a pilot project to explore the efficacy of Pressbooks toward the creation of e-books to deaf learners. The research project undertakes several strands of inquiry in order to develop a proposed theoretical framework that would guide the creation of e-books with the Pressbooks platform. This study has three parts:
- 1) The development of the theoretical framework for the purpose of evaluating Pressbooks.
- 2) Application of the theoretical framework to an available e-book creation platform (Pressbooks)
- 3) Evaluation of the efficacy of Pressbooks in providing an OER in the form of e-books for deaf learners in alignment with the proposed theoretical framework.
Team
Lead Investigator – Joanne Weber, PhD, Canada Research Chair, University of Alberta
Co-Investigators
Michael Skyer, PhD, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester University, USA
Michelle Brailey, Library Publishing, University of Alberta
Ken Bauer, Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara
Presentations
