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Promoting Independence and Access

Chris Smith from NC Virtual education was the October 20, 2021, Quality Matters (QM) Success Stories session. Smith shared their background and work. Prompting us to define accessibility in the chat, Smith mentioned that we often look at accessibility from the legal or accommodations perspectives. Chris had a slide with a title that stuck with me: promoting […]
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Messaging on Day 1

Today I watched a ROSE seminar agbout first-day experiences in STEM courses. Claire Meaders presented work done as a postdoctoral scholar with Michelle Smith, Brian Couch, and A. Kelly Lane, among others. Meaders asked the audience: why does the first day matter? Citing Vygotsky 1978: “Every class is a social context in which learning is shared between people. Meaders […]
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Support for Course Improvement

It was a rough long day, yet we were able to learn in lab and troubleshoot together. Tonight, we watched a session entitled “When support and quality assurance collide: A learning technologists’ journey to maintain staff wellbeing in a world full of data” by Laura Hollinshead from the University of Derby. Hollinshead worked with their […]
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Cameras Off? Cameras On?

We had an awesome OpenEd 2021 session despite a tough day. Tonight, we watched a recorded presentation from ALT 2021 entitled “Should we see students’ cameras when we teach online synchronous sessions?” presented by Catherine Bazela, Pete Mella, and Robert Spark. Mella began by asking the audience: “if we asked you to switch on your […]
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Making Media Accessible for an Entire Campus and Comparing Discussions

It was a busy day with scooters, painting, chalk, and baking. Tonight, we watched an ALT 2021 day 3 session entitled “Making Video and Multimedia for Learning Accessible and More Inclusive, at Scale” presented by Sandra Partington, Maria Kaffa, and Sandra Guzman Rodriguez. Partington spoke about the transition to online teaching and use of video. […]
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Being Well, Living Well and Digital Mental Health Interventions

Today was a busy day with trips to the playground and NC State Open House! Tonight, we watched the ALT 2021 session entitled “Online supports for flexible learners to support student mental health and wellbeing at scale” presented by Kelley Hester, Jacqueline McCormack, O’Gorman Louise, Louise Kearins, Jennifer Gilligan and Allison Gillen. Hester is doing […]
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Peer Partners

Today I watched a session from day 3 of the ALT 2021 conference that I had watched before, a couple of weeks ago. The session entitled “Promoting Connectedness – the importance of peer mentors in an intra-curricular online learning space” caught my attention. The speakers were Peter Bryant, Juliette Overland, Danielle Eden, and Natasha Arthars. […]
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Professional Development at The Open University

Today was the first metagenomics lab session. It was a lot of fun… though also a long session. Tonight we watched an ALT 2021 session entitled “The show must go on: reflecting on transitioning a programme of face-to-face staff development events online.” The presenters, Charlotte Stevens and Karen Hamilton, are part of the instructor development […]
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