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Accessibility and OER:Status and Issues for Higher
Education
1
Gerry Hanley, MERLOT and Cal. State University
Una Daly, Open Courseware Consortium
Mark Riccobono, National Federation of the Blind
Sloan-Merlot 2012
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Gerry Hanley, Ph.D.
Executive Director, MerlotSenior Director, Academic Technology ServicesCalifornia State University, Office of the Chancellor
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Una T. Daly, M. Ed.
Community College ManagerOpen Courseware Consortium
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Mark A. Riccobono, M.S. Ed.
Executive Director, Jernigan InstituteNational Federation for the Blind
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Agenda
• Digital, Accessible, and Open is Now
• Existing Efforts with OER & Accessibility
• Building the Community
• Issues to Resolve & Call to Action
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Digital Information Age
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Origin of OER: As Public Good(2002)
• The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes
• Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research
7Creative Commons CC-BY license, Dr. Judy Baker
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Characteristics of OER
• Digital– Free distribution– Easy to customize
• Open License– Reuse, Revise, Remix
• Low cost– Expand access to education
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Examples
Includes –
• Course materials• Modules or lessons• Open CourseWare (OCW)• Open textbooks• Videos• Images• Tests• Software• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge9Creative Commons CC-BY license, Dr. Judy Baker
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OER Expands Access
• Access is a core value of open education– OER producers need training
• Support all Learners– Life-long– Developing Countries– Regardless of Disability
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Post-Secondary Students
• U.S. enrolled students with any disabilities– 707,000 students (2008-09)
• 50 percent attend public 2-year colleges.• 30 percent attend public 4-year colleges
• CSU students enrolled with disabilities– 10,500 students (2011-12)
U.S. Dept of Ed., Students with Disabilities at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions., June 2011
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Diverse Learner Challenges
• Cognitive learning disabilities• Sensory & motor
impairments• English language deficits• Lack of engagement
Image: Kersti Nebelsiek CC-BY
Source: cast.org
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• FLOE Project• Community College Open Textbooks• Benetech’s Bookshare Project• Diagram Center• UK Higher Education Academy/JISC
OER and Accessibility Projects
Image: Tom Richardson CC-BY
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FLOE Project
• Inclusive Learning Design
– Providing resources needed to enable inclusive access to personally relevant, engaging learning opportunities for the full diversity of learners and content producers
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Textbook: Collaborative StatisticsAccessibility reviewed by: Virtual Ability, Inc.
http://collegeopentextbooks.org
100 Open Textbook Accessibility Reviews
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Bookshare & Diagram Center• Largest accessible online library– Expanding reading options for print disabled– Membership-based, free to qualified students– Expanding choices of access technology• Now available on eReaders and smart phones
• Diagram Center– Office of Special Education (DOE)• Focus on faster and easier creation of accessible image
descriptions for students.
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Building a Community of Practice
• Opportunity to collaborate with others interested in OER & Accessibility
– Find Accessibility Information– Share Accessibility Expertise– Contribute to Online Collection of Resources
Image: Happy Rower CC-BY
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OER & Accessibility Teaching Commons
• MERLOT, California State University, OCW, and NFB working in partnership to help you– Find centers and organizations for consulting services– Find OER on accessibility topics
• Tools, Training, Policies, Strategies, Universal Design for Learning
– Find OER with accessibility information– Find members with accessibility expertise
http://oeraccess.merlot.org
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MERLOT Collection Curation
• Meta-data scheme for contributing accessibility tags for OER– Allows contribution of expertise, freely and easily with
attribution http://oeraccess.merlot.org/contribute_expertise/evaluation.html
• Curates collection of accessible OER with a variety of tools and processes – Supports faculty looking for accessible OER– http://oeraccess.merlot.org/finding_materials/index.html
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Where do we go from here …
• Higher Education’s role in making OER accessible
• Eliminating barriers to good accessibility practices
• Call to action
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What can Higher Ed do?
• Articulate business case for accessible OER
• Establish effective strategies for driving accessibility
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Business Case • Equal access to programs, services, or
activities is required by federal law.
• Faculty need awareness, training and tools to select and create accessible OER
• Save time and $$ by designing accessible OER instead of retrofitting it
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Digital Promises Accessibility
• Misconception that because something is "digital" it is "accessible”
• Accessibility needs to be designed into digital learning materials
• Accessibility standards ensure materials work with assistive technology.
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Digital Guidelines & Law
• World Wide Web (W3C), WCAG 2.0– Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust
• Section 508 Electronic & Info Technology
• Universal Design for Learning
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Universal Design Principles
• Designed to be used by everyone (no adaptation)
• Benefits all ages & abilities– Curb cuts in sidewalk– Close captioning video– Screen readers Image: colorblindPicaso cc-by--nc:
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Document Formats• ePUB3 document standard– Converts directly to DAISY– Reflows for mobile devices
• PDF often inaccessible– Structural markups missing– Primarily print format– Does not reflow
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Higher Education Strategies
• Establish institution-wide policies & practices• Support strong standards• Provide faculty training • Establish chief accessibility officer• Validate products being used or purchase• Share knowledge & expertise across institutions
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Oregon State University• Commits to ensuring equal access to all University programs,
services and activities provided through information technology (IT). Unless an exemption applies … all colleges, departments, offices and entities will:
– Use University web page designs that are consistent with the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) Level AA. For further information … visit the University’s Information Technology Accessibility website.
– Disseminate electronic documents and multimedia on web pages that are consistent with this policy.
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Barriers to Accessibility
• Rate of adoption of OER• Lack of open dialogue• Educational materials created and funded
outside of higher education• Lack of good accessibility meta-data and
testing rubrics• Feedback from users – closing the loop
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User Feedback:Closing the Loop
• Students need to provide feedback on what works
• Organizations outside higher education can offer support
• Faculty and staff need to be intentional in supporting accessibility
Image: Daniel Steger CC-BY
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Open Dialogue
• Everyone is responsible for accessibility not just the offices of disability.
– Communities of Practice• 23 CSU Accessibility Officers share info.
– Shared Governance Strategy• All stakeholders participate in establishing accessibility
criteria and self-evaluation
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Call to Action
• Accessibility needs to be a priority for OER creation and adoption.
• Higher Education Community drives accessible OER thru policies and strategic funding.
• Contribute to the Open Dialogue
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Thank you for coming• CSU, MERLOT, OCWC, NFB, and others are committed
to openly sharing so other institutions can improve their delivery of accessible education to all.
• Participate in OER-Accessibility Community– Become a member so others can find you– Contribute materials so others will find them – Reach out with questions and responses to your
community of friends– Invite your colleagues to a social learning community.
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Comments/Questions
– http://oeraccess.merlot.org
• Contact Info:– Gerry Hanley, [email protected]– Una Daly, [email protected]– Mark Riccobono, [email protected]
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