by Mark Thomas, Learning Technologist The Digital Accessibility Conference (DAC) 2024 hosted by Nottingham University last week was my first experience of a “distributed conference”. It brought together an international audience, with 20+ institutions taking part. The welcome session made…
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Five things you can do right away to make your in person teaching more accessible and inclusive
Accurate transcripts are important for people who need them, whether it be for deaf students, international students or perhaps where there is a lot of technical language. For each of these groups, inaccurate transcripts can be severely impactful when it…
Your students don’t know what a RUBRIC is – and maybe you don’t either?
by Sam Hemsley, Academic Developer, University of Sussex One of the first pieces of work I took on when joining the Educational Enhancement team as an Academic Developer in September 2021, was to contribute to the content of a guidance…
Sharing your pronouns to support trans colleagues and students
This week Caley Yardley, Doctoral Tutor in Physics, talks about how we can support our trans colleagues and students by sharing our pronouns. For many, pronouns can seem a very trivial thing, but I think there is a power in…
Tagged with: Inclusive practice
Posted in Accessibility, Educational Enhancement, Inclusive teaching
Posted in Accessibility, Educational Enhancement, Inclusive teaching
Virtual Learning Environments – a parent’s perspective
My first year at Sussex as a Learning Technologist has been a transformative journey, enriched by the parallel experience of supporting my daughter through her inaugural year at a different university. This dual perspective has underscored the critical importance of…
Just a few things to improve accessibility on your Canvas module sites
I love Michael Moseley’s BBC podcast. In each episode he suggests ’Just One Thing‘ to increase your health and wellbeing. The recent Global Accessibility Awareness Day got me thinking of whether there’s just one thing you can do as module…
Say what you see: alternative text for complex images
When making digital content accessible, adding alternative text to images is key. But in a presentation on Demystifying alternative text for complex images at a recent Future Teacher session, Matthew Deeprose from the University of Southampton showed how not all…
Why we still need to talk about digital skills in 2023
If you stand near me long enough, I’ll start talking about digital skills and if I had a soapbox, I’d be standing on it. I think it’s one of the most important areas of personal and professional development, however it’s…
Tagged with: digital accessiblity, Digital capability, Digital literacy
Posted in Accessibility, digital skills
Posted in Accessibility, digital skills
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