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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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Supporting Online Teaching for Vision Impaired Instructors

Happy Friday! This evening we watched an ALT 2021 session entitled “The unexpected transition to online teaching for a vision impaired lecturer: Overcoming accessibility issues during the pandemic” presented by Vanessa Mar-Molinero and Karla De Lima Guedes. De Lima Guedes spoke about working with an instructor with visual impairment and cited data that there are […]
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The HigherEd4All Project and PebblePad

What a week! Lots of fun stuff in the lab, on Zoom, and over email. I was happy to be able to interact with wonderful students in the lab. Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was entitled “The HigherEd4All Project: Design and delivery of accessible, inclusive full-time online degree programmes for students from under-represented groups” by Jacqueline […]
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Providing Access to All Students

Logan Gin spoke about a study on students with disabilities during the pandemic at the September 24, 2021, Online with LSE CBE webinar. Gin is the author of a recently published study. The research question was to what extent did students access their established accommodations following the transition to online STEM courses due to COVID-19? They interviewed 66 students […]
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DO-IT!

It was a long day… and a difficult one for Amada. I also haven’t felt well. However, we all tested negative! So whatever I have is… well… who knows. Sheryl Burgstahler from the University of Washington presented at the 2021 Lilly Online Conference a recorded session entitled “Practices for Making an Online Course Accessible to […]
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Open and Closed!

I still can’t figure out Twitter… I have two accounts and end up using the @delftia one instead of my personal one. Chris Aldrich talked about “A Twitter of Our Own” as OERxDomains21 Day 2. Aldrich started by talking about why be on Twitter if there are “healthier” alternatives? I don’t use Twitter much because […]
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Copyright and Cooperativism

Copyright makes me nervous. I struggle with copyright and fair use for images used for graphical abstracts that students create. Will Cross, Meredith Jacob, Peter Jaszi and Prue Adler presented at OERxDomains21 about harmonizing national copyright exceptions. I know Will Cross and have benefitted tremendously from his expertise in OER and copyright. I wanted to […]
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OERs in Spanish-speaking Countries

Another OERxDomains21 session that caught my attention is entitled “Links between Open Education and DEI – Findings from a Latin American Study” presented by Carina Bossu and Viviane Vladimirschi. This project was funded by the Open University an Hewlett Foundation. They interviewed 12 key stakeholders from Latin America, coded and analyzed the data using NVivo, […]
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Open Design for Equity and Innovation

I am tired today. It has been a long week. I wanted to end with something about open pedagogy and design. I have on my watch list several Quality Matters (QM) webinars. I am working on another QM course that started this week and enjoying it. I learn as much from the materials and activities […]
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Digital Accessibility Tips and NC Virtual

Tonight I watched another Quality Matters (QM) webinar presented by Chris Smith and entitled “Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes: The True Impact of Digital Accessibility” that was recorded last year. Chris Smith is an instructional designer with NC Virtual. I am trying to learn as much as I can and practice accessibility in the course […]
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