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?--- To inform others about what is accessibility, why its needed, and what it looks like in online education
Part Two: Introductory probing questions:
What does accessibility look like in our organization? How do we measure accessibility? Currently there is no true measure. It is not mandated that courses are reviewed so while some may follow the direction of our online instructional designers many do not. Likewise, it is only measured via a course rating from the online instructional designers when a course is being reviewed.
What does OER look like in our organization? How do we measure access to OER? Very few faculty members use them.
Part Three: Clarifying questions for accessibility:
What is the organizational structure that supports accessibility?
Who generates most of the accessibility structures/conversation in our organization?
Where do most educators get support with accessibility?
What content areas might have the largest gaps in access to accessibility?
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?
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? We want to build a podcast series to inform faculty
Who have we not yet included while thinking about this work? Everyone possible is included (department heads, deans, instructional designers)
What barriers remain when considering this work? Time and exposure
What would genuine change look like for our organization for this work? More courses will provide students with access to great materials and learning experiences that work for everyone.
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. To produce a podcast
What other partners might support this work? Everyone in the institution can assist in some way
What is your desired timeframe for this work? fall 2023
How will you include diverse voices and experiences in this work? We will strategically choose individuals
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. How can we inform others about the value of accessibility
(Save for during May 25th's session.) What feedback did you receive from another team during the May 25th Implementation Session?
Section Three: Team Work Time and Next Steps (Complete by the end of Implementation Session Three)
Sharing and Next Steps
What was your redefined goal for this series? Still the same
What does your team want to celebrate? Or dedication to the idea
What did your team accomplish? If you have links to resources, please include them here. We mapped a recording plan
What are your team’s next steps? Start recording and publish