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OpenEd 2015 Debrief Notes

OpenEd 2015 Debrief Notes

Nov 25, 2015
Goal of the booth was to engage people with ATs and content. Help people with their content and strategies. Create ah-ha moments.
Conference catch phrase: "Come for the swag. Stay for the WCAG."

Attendees

  • BCCampus - toolkits and publishing platform
  • CAST - UDL for learning, scaffolding for learning, our buddies from Boston!
  • CaperBC - direct accomodations for BC students
  • ATBC - Bruce + Vince, brought ATs for people to try. Head trackers, single switch, screen readers, other ATs.
  • Students with ATs who worked with CaperBC.
  • Lots of librarians. 
  • Community colleges with little resources and therefore interested in open ed resources. 
  • Institution stakeholders (i.e. accessibility services, instructional designers, etc.)

Challenges


LMS
  • Learning management systems that were not under their control
  • Learn how to better integrate Floe in their technology
  • would be interesting to look at integration points and plugins with LMS  

Content Accessibility:

  • here is my content, how do I make it accessible?
  • landing page of handbook could be better
  • people who are adapting or converting existing resources - other depts responsible for converting into accessible forms (e.g. how do I add captions?) - a lot of technical questions

Motivation

  • Some educators do not have incentive to create accessible content 
    • ATs are provided, so you don't need accessible content 
    • none of my students need ATs, so I don't need accessible content 
    • CAST pointed out that most students in higher ed don't disclose that they have a disability or specific learning need
  •  People are looking for strategies for managing their accessibility projects

Barrier to entry with Floe
  • People were concerned about cost of integrating our tools 
    • how much time is it going to make use of it 
    •  stability, number of people using it

Better authoring tools
  • Authoring tools are creating issues in accessibility
  • Accessible vs. Usable

Limited / unreliable access, low bandwidth OER, cultural diversity
  • Can we address OER with respect to cultural diversity and variable access to Internet (example: India, Africa, Alaska).

Feedback

  • Tested chart sonificaiton with 3 AT users (JAWS, ZoomText), all had very different responses to the experience. 
  • ILDH, ppl were happy it existed.

Areas of Interest
  • PUB101 - student-centred approach to creating content  - referred to DS106 digital storytelling course http://ds106.us/ 
  • Badging - how do you represent quality, authenticity, importance 
  • Distributed Content platform - Federated Wiki
    • creator of Wikipedia came up with a distibuted content system (like Github) which allows anyone to branch content and anyone can see the history across the web.
  • CAST's UDL Editions and other learning tools: http://udleditions.cast.org/