Coursework›LDTC 610 · 8-unit course · Summer 2026

Digital Media Design

Course: LDTC 610 · 8-unit course · Summer 2026

Unit 01

Unit 1 · Digital Media Intro

Assignment · Digital Media Checklist + OER Evaluation

Working draft · Digital media checklist + OER evaluation

The checklist. Not every media asset earns its place in a course, and the failure modes are predictable: an unclear license, a missing transcript, a video that explains a concept where the objective asked learners to perform a task. Rather than catch those one at a time, I built a single instrument that surfaces all of them in about twenty minutes per asset. It rates each criterion as met, partially met, not met, or not applicable.

Identification

Title, source, date accessed, media type, and the course module and CLO the asset is meant to serve.

License type, permitted use, attribution requirements, fair-use analysis where claimed, and trademark rights. Tier 1 — must pass.

Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)

Alt text, captions, transcripts, 4.5:1 contrast, keyboard navigation, reading level, and mobile rendering. Tier 1 — must pass.

Instructional Alignment

Whether the asset supports a stated CLO, matches the Bloom level, fits the audience, suits the task, and respects a time-constrained learner.

Currency & Accuracy

Updated within 24 months, instructions match current software, credentials are verifiable, and claims are sourced.

Overall Recommendation

A tiered verdict: embed as-is, embed with modifications, or do not use. Tier 1 failures block use; Tier 2 gaps can be designed around.

The tiered verdict. Not all criteria carry equal weight. Licensing and accessibility are Tier 1 — a failure there creates legal exposure or excludes learners before instruction even begins. Alignment and currency are Tier 2 — gaps there can be remediated through supplementary design. Separating the two is what keeps a recommendation defensible rather than arbitrary.

OER under evaluation

“Lock Down Your Login” — a two-factor authentication explainer from the National Cybersecurity Alliance.

Strong on currency and audience fit; failed on missing image alt text, ambiguous licensing, and a contrast gap. It explains 2FA at the Understand level but never reaches the Apply level the objective requires.

Verdict · Embed with modifications

What it changed in my practice. The evaluation confirmed something I suspected but had not tested: most good-enough third-party resources fail on at least one of accessibility, licensing clarity, or instructional level. For Digital Foundations the practical implication is that I will use third-party OERs for conceptual framing only and produce original screencasts for every procedural objective — which gives me end-to-end control over accessibility, reading level, and version currency, all of which a course about fast-moving AI tools cannot afford to lose.

Unit 02