This document discusses the importance of accessibility and inclusion in learning and teaching. It notes that accessibility benefits everyone by removing barriers that could affect anyone. It highlights several laws and policies related to accessibility and inclusion. The document provides tips for making content more accessible, such as using descriptive links, structuring content logically, considering color contrast, adding image descriptions and closed captions, and applying universal design for learning principles. It also promotes the use of open educational resources and accessibility checkers.
Next Gen OER Keynote Panel - Open Ed 2016DeLaina Tonks
Invite students to co-design content for a win-win-win-win. Students win by creating a legacy an contributing to the collective. The content wins by going through a revision process. Teachers win by having students produce content they may not have time to create themselves. But most of all, the students taking the course have additional pedagogical options, such as audio, presentations, tutorials, FAQs sheets, contextual cues, project ideas, and more. Learn more about the paradox of selflessness and how heaven = sharing.
Next Gen OER Keynote Panel - Open Ed 2016DeLaina Tonks
Invite students to co-design content for a win-win-win-win. Students win by creating a legacy an contributing to the collective. The content wins by going through a revision process. Teachers win by having students produce content they may not have time to create themselves. But most of all, the students taking the course have additional pedagogical options, such as audio, presentations, tutorials, FAQs sheets, contextual cues, project ideas, and more. Learn more about the paradox of selflessness and how heaven = sharing.
Barriers to the Integration and Adoption of iPads in Schools: A Systematic Li...Khalid Md Saifuddin
iPad, with its Apple platform and interoperability-dependent material conditions, bring complex barriers in its adoption and integration in secondary education system as a learning tool. In the schools’ context, it is an emerging educational technology for its affordances supporting collaborative learning. This systematic literature review on the barriers to the integration of iPad in primary and secondary schools is based on 13 peer-reviewed and full-text articles. The paper discusses what are the challenges in using iPad as a learning tool in primary and secondary educational settings. The identified barriers are discussed in three broad categories or stages of innovation process in an educational context: basic challenges with the tool, barriers to the integration of the iPad in a school setting, and barriers in the use of the iPad.
Flat Connections at the Global Education Fair, May 2018Julie Lindsay
Overview of services for educators and classrooms around the world provided by Flat Connections. Prepared for the Global Education Fair, 2018. More details on the website- http://flatconnections.com
Student engagement with Technology Enhanced Learning workshop 22 july 2013Alex Spiers
This is the powerpoint presentation use in two back to back workshops as part of Sheffield Hallam University's event Student engagement with Technology Enhanced Learning http://bit.ly/1bgpT6U
A Decade of Digital Education: We Are Still Learning (Studiosity Symposium 2017)Studiosity.com
A Decade of Digital Education: We Are Still Learning
A look into digital education over the past 10 years. What’s worked? What hasn’t? And what can we be doing better?
Keynote presenter:
Assoc. Prof. Chris Tisdell, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Science, UNSW
A simple, easy to use lesson plan centered around the use of a video. Includes access to electronic open-source materials. A great resource for any ESL instructors or English Teachers.
Barriers to the Integration and Adoption of iPads in Schools: A Systematic Li...Khalid Md Saifuddin
iPad, with its Apple platform and interoperability-dependent material conditions, bring complex barriers in its adoption and integration in secondary education system as a learning tool. In the schools’ context, it is an emerging educational technology for its affordances supporting collaborative learning. This systematic literature review on the barriers to the integration of iPad in primary and secondary schools is based on 13 peer-reviewed and full-text articles. The paper discusses what are the challenges in using iPad as a learning tool in primary and secondary educational settings. The identified barriers are discussed in three broad categories or stages of innovation process in an educational context: basic challenges with the tool, barriers to the integration of the iPad in a school setting, and barriers in the use of the iPad.
Flat Connections at the Global Education Fair, May 2018Julie Lindsay
Overview of services for educators and classrooms around the world provided by Flat Connections. Prepared for the Global Education Fair, 2018. More details on the website- http://flatconnections.com
Student engagement with Technology Enhanced Learning workshop 22 july 2013Alex Spiers
This is the powerpoint presentation use in two back to back workshops as part of Sheffield Hallam University's event Student engagement with Technology Enhanced Learning http://bit.ly/1bgpT6U
A Decade of Digital Education: We Are Still Learning (Studiosity Symposium 2017)Studiosity.com
A Decade of Digital Education: We Are Still Learning
A look into digital education over the past 10 years. What’s worked? What hasn’t? And what can we be doing better?
Keynote presenter:
Assoc. Prof. Chris Tisdell, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Science, UNSW
A simple, easy to use lesson plan centered around the use of a video. Includes access to electronic open-source materials. A great resource for any ESL instructors or English Teachers.
How to Make Academic Departments More Inclusive of Faculty with Disabilities3Play Media
This presentation will share lessons learned in the AccessADVANCE project which can help departments and institutions make faculty positions more inclusive of individuals with disabilities.
Making Learning Accessible – Solving A Complex PuzzleLearningCafe
Our workforce is becoming more diverse with employees facing different kinds of barriers to Learning. These barriers to Learning include not only physical ones such as vision, hearing and motor disabilities but also cognitive disabilities and literacy. The combinations and variations may be too numerous to cater for using the “one size fits all” design approach.
Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, Australian Government agencies are required to ensure information and services are provided in a non-discriminatory accessible manner by implementing the Web content accessibility guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). Private sector is also choosing to address accessibility requirements as part of social corporate responsibility.
The challenge for Learning professionals is to designing accessible Learning including:
a more technically challenging design and development approach.requiring a bigger budget.
Which inclusive practices do early childhood programs need to master in order to welcome and support all learners? This engaging presentation reveals the keys to effective inclusion for young children! Presented by Kathryn Wahl, Director of the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s (SCCOE) Inclusion Collaborative Department, this presentation introduces you to the 12 inclusive practices with the strongest research base for supporting young children in inclusive programs.
Discover how each key practice—from conflict resolution to transitions between activities—contributes to successful, high-quality inclusion. Kathryn also shares how she’s used the Inclusive Classroom Profile (ICP™) with early childhood programs to effectively assess their inclusive practices and take steps toward improving them. Head start professionals, inclusion facilitators, early childhood/ECSE directors and administrators, and special education educators will benefit from this presentation.
Watch the recorded webinar: https://home.edweb.net/webinar/inclusiveeducation20180228/
About the Presenter, Kathryn Wahl:
As Director of the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s (SCCOE) Inclusion Collaborative Department, Kathryn Wahl is responsible for promoting, supporting and advocating for all children to have full access to inclusive environments, regardless of their abilities, both locally, regionally and statewide. The Inclusion Collaborate of SCCOE strives to build a culture that values all children by strengthening, sustaining, and ensuring inclusive practices.
Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Awareness of Open and Accessible Educ...Una Daly
Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Awareness of Open and Accessible Educational Resources
Time: Tuesday, March 11, 6:00 pm (GMT), 2:00 pm (EDT), 11:00 am (PDT)
This webinar focuses on creating awareness of the need for open and accessible educational resources to improve learning outcomes for all students regardless of disabilities. Sharing the struggles that college students with disabilities face, efforts by the National Federation of the Blind, MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), the California State University system, and the OpenCourseWare Consortium to enhance educational experiences for all learners will be highlighted.
Learn about the range of accessibility issues that need to be addressed and the open educational services that can enable the OER community to provide more accessible educational resources and services. Presenters will invite the audience to join in an online community for sharing accessibility expertise and the discovery and delivery of open educational resources.
Presenters:
• Anne Taylor, Director of Access Technology, National Federation of the Blind, United States
• Gerry Hanley, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Technology Services, California State University system and Executive Director of MERLOT.
• Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at the OpenCourseWare Consortium
Readspeaker Presentation at 2018 D2L Connection: Nova ScotiaD2L Barry
ow to Easily Deploy and Support a Universal Design for Learning Strategy with the ReadSpeaker Learning Tools in Brightspace by D2L; Michael Hughes, ReadSpeaker
Designing Accessible Cyberlearning: Recommendations & Lessons Learned3Play Media
This webinar shares recommendations for how cyberlearning researchers can address accessibility issues in their research and for how instructors and designers can employ accessible technology and pedagogy in their practice.
Designing for Diversity: Creating Learning Experiences that Travel the GlobeUna Daly
Workshop Title:
Designing for Diversity: Creating Learning Experiences that Can Travel the Globe
This highly interactive workshop will introduce and explore pedagogical, technical and policy-based strategies to design, create and deliver OER/OCW learning experiences that can be used by the broadest range of learners globally. Workshop participants will be exposed to a variety of tools while collaboratively creating educational resources that are amenable to translation across cultures, languages, formats, technical platforms, learning approaches, modes of interaction and sensory modalities.
The one consistent and predictable quality of learners is that they are diverse. Among the many differences, they differ in their expectations, language, learning approaches, priorities, culture, background knowledge, age, abilities, motivations, literacy, habits, learning context, available technology and skills. If the goal is to achieve the largest impact and support learners in reaching their optimum then the most important design criteria is to design OCW/OER for diversity.
There are tools, toolkits and guidelines available to support the creation of engaging, flexible and translatable learning experiences. There are also international research and innovation communities that support the advancement of inclusive design. Participants will be familiarized with both so that strategies introduced during the workshop can be further developed and updated after the workshop.
The workshop will address the full OER/OCW delivery chain from learning experience design, authoring, delivery, review, revision and reuse. Participants will explore a variety of content types including video, simulations, interactive forms, animations, games, electronic textbooks, math/science notation, and collaborative applications. Authoring tools and toolkits explored will range from office applications and OER authoring portals to application development environments. A variety of browsers and delivery platforms on desktops and mobile devices will be covered.
The workshop is intended for educators, policy makers, administrators, OER/OCW developers and technical support staff interested in reaching the broadest range of learners globally.
When forced into a corner we do have options: I suggest we choose to be activ...Charles Darwin University
A presentation to the English Australia Ed Tech Symposium - Plenary Address.
Abstract: Those institutions that have pivoted rapidly from teaching face-to face to teaching fully online have learned many lessons over the last 18 months, both good and bad. But for some, this has been nothing new, instead it’s simply been business as usual. We have seen that those who fared better have well established frameworks in place to mediate their technology-enhanced learning offerings. That is, they have recognised processes that define how they translate what they have in policy, procedures and planning into practice. Such a framework can be found within a number of quality tools, that are designed to provide institutions with clear guidelines as to what need to be in place to facilitate a robust and consistent approach to teaching with technology. Once present, it makes it easier to undertake online teaching that does more than just mimic face-to-face practice, providing a robust platform to allow innovative pedagogies to thrive. Typically, this means the online learning has, or can become far more, active, collaborative and authentic. This presentation with share some of the things that have been observed across the higher education sector over the last 18 moths that we can all learn from.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
1. CRICOS QLD 00244B | NSW 02225M TEQSA: PRV12081
Access and inclusion in learning
and teaching
Nikki Andersen | @AndersenNikki
2. “The one argument for
accessibility that doesn’t get
made nearly often enough is how
extraordinarily better it makes
people’s lives. How many
opportunities do we have to
drastically improve people’s lives
by doing our jobs a little better?’”
– Steve Krug
3. Accessibility benefits everyone.
Accessibility isn’t just about
altering existing things to help
a specific group of people; it’s
about changing how we do
things on a structural level to
remove barriers that could
affect anyone
4. • Anti-Discrimination Act 1991
• Disability Discrimination Act 1992
• Disability Standards for Education 2005
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of
Persons with a Disability 2006
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• USQ’s diversity and inclusion policies
It’s a legal responsibility
6. Use descriptive links
Read this
Click here to read more
Read this government report on learning
strategies for young children
7. Structure content logically
Screenshot of Arngren.net homepage. A very disorganised website with many different colours of text, poor layout and confusing design
8. Think about your use of
colour contrast
Test text and background colour combinations and
contrast to ensure text can easily be read. Here are
some online colour contrast checkers:
WebAim Contrast Checker
https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
Vision Australia’s Colour Contrast Analyser
https://www.visionaustralia.org/services/digital-
access/resources/colour-contrast-analyser
14. • Adopt or adapt an open textbook in your
course. The Open Textbook Library is a great
place to start looking for potential open texts:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
• Advocate for open education in your school
• Think about the use of open assessment
Open educational practice
16. When people cannot find themselves in
the books they read or when the images
they see are distorted, negative or
laughable, they learn a powerful lesson
about how they are devalued in a
society of which they are a part
Rundine Sims Bishop, 1990, “Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors.”
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17.
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