This document provides guidance on using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to help a professor named Reed Moore-Büx make his detective fiction course more accessible to mobile learners. It outlines five UDL strategies: 1) start with text, 2) make alternatives for multimedia, 3) allow alternate ways for students to demonstrate learning, 4) break tasks into separate components, and 5) expand and share online course interactions using free or low-cost tools. The document emphasizes that implementing UDL helps increase learner engagement and the ways information is represented and actions demonstrated, without necessarily requiring accommodation.
Integrating technology into the classroomerica pitrack
Throughout this presentation I hope I am able to offer guidance and make the transition of adding technology into your classroom a simple daily rountine.
Brightspace webinar: What I Learned from Teaching OnlineD2L Barry
February 16, 2016 What I Learned from Teaching Online (Webinar) Presenter: Holly Morris, College of the North Atlantic for the Brightspace Teaching & Learning Community
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Integrating technology into the classroomerica pitrack
Throughout this presentation I hope I am able to offer guidance and make the transition of adding technology into your classroom a simple daily rountine.
Brightspace webinar: What I Learned from Teaching OnlineD2L Barry
February 16, 2016 What I Learned from Teaching Online (Webinar) Presenter: Holly Morris, College of the North Atlantic for the Brightspace Teaching & Learning Community
Five Ways to Use the ‘Not’ Release Conditions to Impact Teaching & LearningD2L
The wait is over for the long awaited "Not" release conditions in the Brightspace Learning Environment (LE). With the January update to the LE, you are now able to set release conditions for situations where students have not done something. In this webinar we will consider effective uses of these release conditions in various LE tools to encourage student behavior that will increase their likelihood of success in the course.
Strategies for Getting Administrative and Faculty Buy-In for UDL3Play Media
The twentieth century saw access to higher education broaden in several significant ways. Formerly under-served populations of students were the targets of concentrated efforts to provide opportunities for college study: women, veterans, first-generation college learners, students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, people with disabilities. To help make educational materials and teaching practices inclusive for all learners, this webinar radically reflects on how to motivate and inspire colleges and universities to adopt Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Presented by Thomas Tobin, the Coordinator of Learning Technologies in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, this webinar will explore strategies for getting administrative and faculty buy-in for UDL. Thomas will focus on key shifts to make at your institution that will help demonstrate a measurable return on the investment of UDL.
This presentation will cover:
Training staff in Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
How to use UDL principles to increase student retention, persistence, and satisfaction
Motivating the adoption of UDL as part of campus culture
Getting administrative, budgetary, and faculty buy-in for UDL
How to expand the use of UDL elements beyond the legally required minimum
Tips for Getting Your Colleagues to Adopt Universal Design for Learning3Play Media
When most people in higher education hear the phrase “universal design for learning," they think about students with physical disabilities and the accommodations we provide to them in order to help them meet course outcomes.
To help make educational materials and practices inclusive for all learners, this interactive webinar session radically reflects on how faculty members and course designers can adopt Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Presented by Thomas Tobin, author and speaker on quality in distance education, this session will help broaden the focus of UDL beyond learners with disabilities and toward a larger ease-of-use/general inclusion framework.
This presentation will cover:
How accommodations and UDL are very different
What you can do today, within a week, and within a month to reach out to your biggest segment of learners—people on their mobile devices
How you can incorporate UDL elements into your courses
How you can design and retrofit existing course components using UDL principles
How to implement UDL across campus to increase persistence, retention, and satisfaction for all learners
Strategies for Getting Administrative and Faculty Buy-In for UDL3Play Media
The twentieth century saw access to higher education broaden in several significant ways. Formerly under-served populations of students were the targets of concentrated efforts to provide opportunities for college study: women, veterans, first-generation college learners, students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, people with disabilities. To help make educational materials and teaching practices inclusive for all learners, this webinar radically reflects on how to motivate and inspire colleges and universities to adopt Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Presented by Thomas Tobin, the Coordinator of Learning Technologies in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, this webinar will explore strategies for getting administrative and faculty buy-in for UDL. Thomas will focus on key shifts to make at your institution that will help demonstrate a measurable return on the investment of UDL.
This presentation will cover:
Training staff in Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
How to use UDL principles to increase student retention, persistence, and satisfaction
Motivating the adoption of UDL as part of campus culture
Getting administrative, budgetary, and faculty buy-in for UDL
How to expand the use of UDL elements beyond the legally required minimum
Tips for Getting Your Colleagues to Adopt Universal Design for Learning3Play Media
When most people in higher education hear the phrase “universal design for learning," they think about students with physical disabilities and the accommodations we provide to them in order to help them meet course outcomes.
To help make educational materials and practices inclusive for all learners, this interactive webinar session radically reflects on how faculty members and course designers can adopt Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Presented by Thomas Tobin, author and speaker on quality in distance education, this session will help broaden the focus of UDL beyond learners with disabilities and toward a larger ease-of-use/general inclusion framework.
This presentation will cover:
How accommodations and UDL are very different
What you can do today, within a week, and within a month to reach out to your biggest segment of learners—people on their mobile devices
How you can incorporate UDL elements into your courses
How you can design and retrofit existing course components using UDL principles
How to implement UDL across campus to increase persistence, retention, and satisfaction for all learners
This paper was presented at the 2012 NSTA STEM & Expo in Atlantic City. Our teachers worked with Drs. Hui-Yin Hsu and Shiang-Kwei Wang to present the paper. Teacher presenters are: Mr. Stephen Green (IS 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate), Ms. Mayen Davis (The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens), and Ms Vivian Alforque (The Middle Village School).
Designing Competency Structures and Learning ObjectivesD2L Barry
Title: Designing Competency Structures and Learning Objectives.
For a presentation April 21 at Georgia State University.
By Theresa Butori, Univ of North Georgia
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Resources:
Carnegie Mellon: https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/teach/classroomclimate/strategies/choice.html
Cult of Pedagogy: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/udl-equity/
Novak Education: https://www.novakeducation.com/hubfs/Resources/UDL_FlowChart.pdf
C-BEN: https://www.cbenetwork.org/
Presentation by Denise Huff of Spartanburg Community College at the D2L Connection: South Carolina Edition on October 28, 2022 at Piedmont Technical College in Newberry.
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Original presentation was at ITC's eLearning conference in February 2008.
This presentation takes an updated look at some of those e-learning myths in 2022.
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Video Captions and Transcripts Made Easy , or at least easierD2L Barry
I share almost everything I do, and typically assign the Creative Commons Attribution type of copyright “protection” which means you are free to use my stuff as you like – but it is nice to get a shout out (or attribution) from time to time.
Resources for the presentation are shared at https://bit.ly/Dahlvideo
Video Captions and Transcripts Made Easy, or at least easierD2L Barry
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Finding good captioned videos on YouTube
Editing the auto-captions on YouTube
Creating a transcript for your video
Keyboard shortcuts for YouTube
VTT caption file format
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Webinar:
Date:Apr 7, 2020
Time:3:00 PM ET
Duration:1 hour
Presenters:
Archie L. Williams, Ph.D., Sharee’ Lawrence, Denise Sutton, Dr. Tamara Payne; all of Fort Valley State University
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Handout for presentation by Joan Anderssen, Arapahoe Community College at the D2L Connection: 2020 Colorado Edition.
A day of learning, sharing, and fun at Red Rocks Community College in Arvada, Colorado.
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Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
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8. Help Reed connect to his students
who are on mobile devices.
What one strategy could he adopt
to supplement—or even replace—
his face-to-face teaching?
9. Let’s Help Reed
Universal Design for
Learning = +1 ...
… learner engagement
… representing info
… action choices
12. “We want a situation that is
good for everybody . . . part of
it is thinking about what has to
happen at the level of design
that makes accommodation
less necessary.”
-- Sam Johnston, CAST
26. 1. Start new design processes with text.
2.Create alternatives for all multimedia.
3. Design alternate ways for learners to
demonstrate each course objective.
4.Break up tasks into separate components.
5. Expand, document, and share interactions in
online courses using free or low-cost tools.
Reed is based on an actual colleague who teaches in the comparative-literature department of a large Midwestern university.
From Reed’s course description: San Francisco detective novelist Dashiell Hammett wryly observes in _The Thin Man_, “The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.” Only the detective, the investigator of knowledge en route to solving a crime, would judiciously perceive that the same evidence could add up in (at least) two entirely different ways.
Christina Hendricks
Students reading/not reading the texts
Creative Commons "BY" license (OK to use for commercial publication)
http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2012/08/05/students-readingnot-reading-the-texts/
Research chat: Information scientist Alison Head on student habits
Creative Commons "BY" license (OK to use for commercial publication)
http://journalistsresource.org/skills/research/research-chat-information-scientist-alison-head
Samia Kamal
Crossing the E-borders: The Road to Developing Online Courses
Creative Commons "BY-SA" license (OK to use for commercial publication)
http://bejlt.brookes.ac.uk/paper/crossing-the-e-boarders-the-road-to-developing-online-courses/
24/7, always-on, technology overload
Leigh Blackall
Looking Back on FOC08
Creative Commons "BY" license (OK to use for commercial publication)
https://learnonline.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/looking-back-on-foc08/
Sidebar about Center for Applied Special Technology: how developed, how spread, how adopted.
CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology
About UDL
http://www.cast.org/udl/
Difference between
Assistive technology (AT) = addresses specific challenges for individual learners.
Universal Design = strategies that benefit all learners through improved accessibility.
Section 508.gov
Academic Community Member
http://www.section508.gov/academic-community-member
Lots of different reasons to want universal-design elements:
Smaller screens (iPads, tablets, smart phones, laptops, desktop computers)
Differing operating systems (Mac, PC, Android, Linux)
Freedom from specific applications (PowerPoint versus PDF/web pages)
Bandwidth concerns (mobile users, remote/rural users, there are still dial-up users)
Learners-with-disability access (vision, hearing, navigation)
Susan Asselin
Universal Design for Access and Equity
Creative Commons "BY" license (OK to use for commercial publication)
http://cnx.org/content/m42278/latest/?collection=col11375/latest
Sam Johnston, research scientist at CAST.
Conversation November 2013.
“I don’t think we have a magic bullet here, and that’s a good thing.”
Community colleges spending $2B before 2023 to build out curricula and courses with high labor-force demand.
Partnership among CAST, Carnegie Mellon U, Stanford, Creative Commons, Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges: new open-learning initiative.
Five areas of focus:
1. assessment (getting beyond multiple choice)
2. optimize the learning climate (policy & legal applications)
3. UDL tools & features (planning & strategy)
4. planning individual courses (syllabus and design)
5. media & technology (close to completed during 2014)
Reed sat in front of the camera and talked about one of the books the class was reading. That was just the start of the process.
HowTo.gov
Create Section 508-Compliant Videos on Your Government Websites
http://www.howto.gov/social-media/video/508-compliant-video-guide
Text
Alternative formats
Multiple student-work formats
Break concepts into steps/chunks
Set content free (of local applications)
Using text as a foundation creates an instant accessible version, and avoids the “um, uh” and off-topic “bird walking” that profs are prone to.
CTL: Welcome to NEIU - Course Modes - Promo Video
http://homepages.neiu.edu/~ctl/Script.html
Video provides still images.
Screen demos refer to scripts.
A good example is the federal government—the IRS offers its tax forms in text-only and Braille formats.
IRS Accessible Tax Forms (in Braille and Text Formats)
http://www.irs.gov/uac/IRS-Accessible-Tax-Forms-(in-Braille-and-Text-Formats)
In most Learning Management Systems, the dropbox tool can accept any kind of file.
This is sometimes a hindrance (asking for written work produces, doc, .docx, .wps, WordPad, OpenOffice, etc).
However, defining formats for various media can offer students multiple paths to demonstrating skills.
If the same criteria are applied to evaluating student work, the format should not be a consideration for many assignments.
Chunking content into discrete one-concept pieces helps students to consume smaller files (helps with bandwidth).
Also helps with information retention.
Also helps if you have to re-record or update (just 3 minutes, rather than an hour).
Showing the structure to students helps them to anticipate, prepare, experience, and review.
Wikipedia
Instructional scaffolding
Creative Commons "AT-SA" license (OK to use for commercial publication)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_scaffolding
Universal design asks us to set content free from the clock—students can review on their own time, repeatedly if need be.
Also, set content free from specific applications: use formats that do not require specific programs for use (PDF vs PowerPoint), or that stream via web pages (YouTube videos).
Products like Audacity, Jing, Screencast-o-Matic, Screenr, and VoiceThread.
Review participant strategies from Thought Exercise 1.