[Cato] [ITACCESS] Accessibility Article in EDUCAUSE Magazine

Mon Mar 12 17:20:20 PDT 2018

My plan is to respond with “Yes, we’re aware of accessibility making it to #2 of the teaching and learning issues survey. That’s a fabulous accomplishment and we look forward to IT taking the hint and working to ensure the technologies that we use to ensure students (and faculty and staff and community members) can do more than just take a well-designed course.” – Is that too too snarky? Or just snarky enough?

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Subject: Re: [Cato] [ITACCESS] Accessibility Article in EDUCAUSE Magazine

Yeah, making Educause people defensive was a fairly predictable result! 😈

I hope they didn't miss the point entirely.

Mark Jenkins, Director
eLearning |Open Education
Coordinator, Accessible Technology Initiatives
Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges

mjenkins at sbctc.edu
360.704-4363

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Subject: [Cato] FW: [ITACCESS] Accessibility Article in EDUCAUSE Magazine

There have been some interesting replies to our article on the EDUCAUSE list serve (all good so far!).  I wasn’t aware that there’s a subgroup called ELI (EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative) that does an annual survey of teaching and learning. Accessibility and UDL have moved up to #2 this year!  May be some good data to use to support our efforts.  See two responses below.

Amy

From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:ITACCESS at LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Malcolm Brown
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 2:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [ITACCESS] Accessibility Article in EDUCAUSE Magazine

Just a side note.  The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) runs an annual survey of the teaching and learning community to identify the key issues in that thematic domain. We’ve been running this survey since 2011. We invite all members of the teaching & learning to participate in the survey and not just those from EDUCAUSE member schools and not just folks in IT organizations. So the results (running on average  ~900 returned surveys over the past 3 years) represent a diverse community.

https://www.educause.edu/eli/initiatives/key-issues-in-teaching-and-learning
Key Issues in Teaching and Learning | EDUCAUSE<https://www.educause.edu/eli/initiatives/key-issues-in-teaching-and-learning>
www.educause.edu
2018 Key Issues in Teaching and Learning. Each year, ELI surveys the higher education community to determine key issues and opportunities in post-secondary teaching ...

As far as our Key Issues survey is concerned, the issue of Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) has been steadily climbing:

2015       #12

2016       #7

2017       #4

2018       #2

You can see the results of all previous Key Issues surveys here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yhl6A7YaqZyoJ-PK7JPMFosEquNeWZPcPDfAEo_fs6I/edit#gid=1992467705

best, M

Malcolm Brown

Director of Learning Initiatives

EDUCAUSE<http://www.educause.edu/>
Uncommon Thinking for the Common Good
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direct: 720-406-6745

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Dear Amy, et al.::

Malcolm beat me to it with his post about Accessibility and UDL as #2 on the list of ELI Key Issues, but I will add that the entry includes links to some excellent articles:

Igniting a Universal Design Mindset on Campus <https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/12/igniting-a-universal-design-mindset-on-campus>

The Section 508 Refresh and What It Means for Higher Education <https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/12/the-section-508-refresh-and-what-it-means-for-higher-education>

The Elegant Design Imperative <https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/5/the-elegant-design-imperative>

Best wishes and thanks again for your advocacy,

Andrew

p.s. while we're here, a quick reminder that with the new membership model, all EDUCAUSE members have access to ELI and ECAR resources!

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Subject: [ITACCESS] Accessibility Article in EDUCAUSE Magazine

I wanted to share an exciting article about accessibility that just came out in this month’s issue of EDUCAUSE Review. I was fortunate enough to co-write it with some ah-mazing colleagues that you may know: Jess Thompson and Tom Gibbons. (Yep, shameless self-promotion here.)

When Accessibility Doesn't Make It into the EDUCAUSE Top 10: Turn It Up to 11<https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/3/when-accessibility-doesnt-make-it-into-the-educause-top-10-turn-it-up-to-11>

Enjoy!

Amy

Amy Rovner, MPH RD
Instructional Designer,

Accessible IT Coordinator
eLearning Services

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