IHE Accessibility in OER Implementation Guide
Overview
In this section, you and your team will engage in a Landscape Analysis to uncover key structures and supports that can guide your work to support Accessibility in OER. You may or may not answer all of these questions, but this is an offering.
May 11 - Section One: Landscape Analysis for Accessibility in OER in Local Context (Work on during May 11th implementation)
In this section, you and your team will engage in a Landscape Analysis to uncover key structures and supports that can guide your work to support Accessibility in OER. We exnourage to explore some of the questions from each category. You may or may not answer all of these questions, but this is an offering. We ask that you complete Parts One, Two and Six.
Part One: Initial Thoughts
What is your team's initial goal for this series? Our initial goal is to gain a sense of where we are lacking in the area of creating and accessing accessible documents/websites and build knowledge and create action step/s.
Part Two: Introductory probing questions:
What does accessibility look like in our organization? How do we measure accessibility? We have talked about UDL overall but really have done less with diving into it- including the accessibility component. We have had the Office of Disability Services present at College of Education meetings- but it is brief and limited follow up. Therefore, we want to find ways to be intentional about incorporating this work into our daily practice.
What does OER look like in our organization? How do we measure access to OER? Not sure this is currently happening and will become part of our work moving forward.
Part Three: Clarifying questions for accessibility:
What is the organizational structure that supports accessibility? Outside of the Office of Disability Services we really are not familiar with the organizational supports of the university as a whole. We feel that it is important for out department especially to become more knowledgable and active in this area.
Who generates most of the accessibility structures/conversation in our organization? Office of Disability Services
Where do most educators get support with accessibility? Office of Disability Services
What content areas might have the largest gaps in access to accessibility? Perhaps syllabi (including required inserts provided by other departments- we will check on this) and presentations (e.g., ppts) and perhaps our LMS.
Part Four: Clarifying questions for OER:
What is our organizational structure that supports curricular resources?
What is our organizational structure that supports OER?
Who generates most of the curricular resources in our organization?
Where do most educators get support with curricular resources?
What content areas might have the largest gaps in access to curricular resources/OER?
Part Five: Clarifying questions for Faculty learning and engagement:
What Professional Learning (PL) structures have the best participation rates for our educators? We talked about building this work into already scheduled department meetings and providing chunks of SLIDE across the SY.
What PL structures have the best "production" rates for our educators?
What incentive do we have to offer people for participating in learning and engagement?
Who are the educators that would be most creative with accessibility and OER?
Who are the educators that would benefit the most from accessibility and OER?
Part Six: Final Probing questions:
What is our current goal for Accessibility in OER and why is that our goal?
Who have we not yet included while thinking about this work?
What barriers remain when considering this work?
What would genuine change look like for our organization for this work?
Section Two: Team Focus (Finish before May 25th to share during Implementation Session Two)
Identifying and Describing a Problem of Practice
The following questions should help your team ensure that you are focusing your collaboration.
What is your Team’s specific goal for this series? You may consider using AEM Quality Indicators for Creating Accessible Materials to help add to or narrow your work.
What other partners might support this work? We will be more intentional about working with and following up with Office of Disability Services following info sessions.
What is your desired timeframe for this work? 2023-24 SY with beginning at first department meetings. Shawnee will speak with SPED Department Chair and Ann will speak with OSCP Assistant Dean.
How will you include diverse voices and experiences in this work? Perhaps Office of Disability Services can help us find a student who would self-identify and support us in this work in order to capture the S voice.
Please create a Focus Question that explains your goal and provides specific topics that you would like feedback on. This is what you will share in your breakout groups for feedback.
(Save for during May 25th's session.) What feedback did you receive from another team during the May 25th Implementation Session? The team reviewing our proposal liked that we had managable chunks that were intentionally building and looping back. They talked about the Guidance/Policy document that their organization had- and that prompted us to think more about what policies were already developed within our university.
Section Three: Team Work Time and Next Steps (Complete by the end of Implementation Session Three)
What was your redefined goal for this series?
By April, 2024, the Special Education and Office of School and Community Partnerships department faculty will use components of SLIDE when developing content for at least one of their course presentations with 90% participation by all faculty.
We will ask Department Chair to add the materials to the department canvas page.
Implementation Goal: Provide time to support faculty to improve accessibility of presentations (e.g., PPTs) of information within lecture- font, color contrast, image with alt text; committed time on Special Education Dept month meeting (M1- font, M2- color) 10 min- end of the year invite Joanna (ISKME) to check in our SLIDE
Possible timeline: 2023-24 Academic Year
Possible support groups: Joanna ; Office of Disability Services
Voices that are not yet included: ODS may have a S they can recommend to provide voic
Feedback Question: MCC felt that our content was digestible and liked that it as cumulative
2. What does your team want to celebrate? Coming together to learn, reflect, and develop action step to address this important area.
3. What did your team accomplish? If you have links to resources, please include them here. Current PPTs as examples (pre/post SLIDE); AEM resources
4. What are your team’s next steps? Discuss proposal with SPED Department Chair and OSCP Assistant Dean; find time to discuss specific next steps (plan for the 2023-24 SY)