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AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles: version 1 Main Menu Principle Summaries and Table of Contents Review all ten principles' abstract summaries and navigate to different parts of the document. Introduction: How to Use This Document Principle 1: Support Institutions should provide appropriate support for students, educators, administrators, and staff who create ePortfolios. Principle 2: Promote Awareness Institutional administrators, staff, and educators are responsible for promoting awareness of digital ethics in ePortfolio making. Principle 3: Practice ePortfolio creators need opportunities to develop and practice the digital literacies necessary to create accessible and effective ePortfolios. Principle 4: Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions ePortfolio creators should understand and respect author rights, best practices for re-use, and representation. Technology & Usability Technology must be equitably available, usable, and supported for all students, educators, and staff engaged in ePortfolio work. Principle 6: Privacy ePortfolio creators should have ultimate control over public access to their portfolios and the ability to change the privacy settings at any time. Principle 7: Content Storage ePortfolio creators should know where their content is stored, who has access, and how to remove it. Principle 8: Cross-Platform Compatibility ePortfolio creators should be able to make and view ePortfolios across any device, browser, and operating system with equitable ease of use across devices. Principle 9: Accessibility All ePortfolio platforms and pedagogy should be thoroughly vetted for accessibility according to the standards identified by one’s culture, government, or profession. Principle 10: Consent for Data Usage ePortfolio platform providers need consent to collect and store data from ePortfolio creators. Glossary of Key Terms Full List of Resources The Association for Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-Based Learning's Digital Ethics Task Force

Strategies for Applying Principle 9: Accessibility

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Recognizing that technologies are not always designed with all students in mind, and accessible platforms benefit all users.
Recognizing that it isn’t enough to rely upon a particular software company’s assertions regarding accessibility. Decision-makers and other stakeholders should test accessibility prior to purchase or deployment of any ePortfolio platform. This can be done in cooperation with institutional partners, e.g. the Office of Inclusion and Disability (or similar) and affected students and staff.
Including training so that educators, administrators, and staff understand accessibility standards when selecting ePortfolio tools and creating content.
Preparing students to practice accessible design for diverse ePortfolio viewers.

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Principle 9: Accessibility The Association for Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-Based Learning's Digital Ethics Task Force
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1. Strategies for Applying Principle 9: Accessibility
2. Principle 9, Scenario 1 You are a student participating in an internship as part of your work-integrated learning requirement in your Hospitality Management program. Your position as sous-chef in your favorite restaurant in town gives you rich learning opportunities, and you want to document these experiences not just in text but also in multimedia content. Your internship mentor is okay with you taking photos and video of the kitchen and your work to share in your portfolio.
3. Principle 9, Scenario 2 You are an educator. Your institution is finalizing its ePortfolio choices. As a member of the selection committee, you are tasked with verifying that each platform is compliant with the accessibility standards adopted by your institution. In this role, you collaborate with any units that work with students with disabilities to involve them in testing, asking them to provide a representative for the team that makes decisions.
4. Principle 9, Scenario 3
5. Principle 9, Resources