GTC's IHE Accessibility in OER Implementation Guide from the Series
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 learn more about accessiblity and OER and find ways that we can support faculty on our campus to adopt OER and ultimately create and use more accessible course content.
Part Two: Introductory probing questions:
What does accessibility look like in our organization? How do we measure accessibility?
What does OER look like in our organization? How do we measure access to OER?
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?
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.
To start the conversation on campus about OER and Accessibility. Thinking about ways that we can encourage the use of OER within our courses and to encourage faculty to make their courses more accessible.What other partners might support this work?
Disability Services, CISC, Library, Faculty LeadershipWhat is your desired timeframe for this work?
Hoping to start the conversation through this series and then over the summer to get something going during the next academic year.How will you include diverse voices and experiences in this work?
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?
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?
What does your team want to celebrate?
Getting the conversation started by this series.What did your team accomplish? If you have links to resources, please include them here.
What are your team’s next steps?
Continue building the library's OER libguide, CISC's libguide on accessibility, and start forming partnerships with faculty across the campuses to find who is already doing great work with OER and accessibility to recognize their efforts and maybe lean on them as mentors.