Tonight I watched a webinar on digital accessibility from the ALT YouTube channel. Stephen Taylor from the Reagent’s University London and ALT member was the presenter. The title of the session was “AmplifyFE Community Space Webinar – Universal Designs for Learning: Accessibility for Everyone.” Taylor explained the Reasonable Adjustments in The Equality Act 2020 from […]
Dorothy Salinas is an Assistant Professor at County College of Morris in New Jersey. They presented “Biology Course Development: Increasing Affordability and Accessibility for Non-Science Majors” at Open Ed 2021. Salinas spoke about common barriers students may face including academic/institutional (financial aid, advising, guidance, preparedness, learning obstacles) and non-academic (school/work/life balance, time management, childcare, location, […]
Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 short session by Tenley Sablatzky entitled “How to Create Engaging Open Educational Resources without Sacrificing Accessibility.” Sablatzky is a Medical Librarian at Prairie View A&M University. They defined the term accessibility and introduced universal design: “to create a resource that can be accessed, understood, and used to the […]