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Bronwyn Davies

Welcome to Media Access Australia | Media Access Australia - 0 views

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wcag AA website accessible

shared by Bronwyn Davies on 27 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Bronwyn Davies on 27 Mar 11
     
    A fully accessible W3C WCAG 2 AA rating All about accessible education
  • Bronwyn Davies on 27 Mar 11
     
    An excellent example of an accessible website in action AND it is education focussed.
Robyn Jay

Roadmap - MoodleDocs - 1 views

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moodle2.0 moodle

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  • Robyn Jay on 19 Feb 10
     
    "Version 2.0 Moodle 2.0, our biggest release ever, is coming together after two years of development. It contains a huge number of core changes to the platform, most of which are designed to give 3rd party developers more flexibility, scalability and safety. The timetable is designed to deliver Moodle 2.0 in time for the new school year in the northern hemisphere and currently looks like this: * March 2010: Moodle 2.0 Beta release * April, May, June 2010: intensive beta testing and bug fixing (freeze on new features) * 1 July 2010: Moodle 2.0 production release You can track our current progress in detail on the Moodle 2.0 Planning document. Please remember that this document is frequently updated and details can change a lot! Draft release notes at Moodle 2.0 release notes. Please add notable items while they are fresh in your mind. The notes will be edited before the final release. System requirements Since Moodle 2.0 is such a major release, we are allowing ourselves some increases in the requirements. * PHP 5.2.8 is now the minimum version supported. (We are aware that several important linux distros are still shipping earlier versions like 5.2.6, but we need at least version 5.2.x for the new File API, and there are bugs in 5.2.7 and earlier that we could not work around.) This allows developers to write cleaner code using the more recent features of PHP, and will also improve user experience. * Databases should be one of the following: o MySQL 5.0.25 or later (InnoDB storage engine highly recommended) o PostgreSQL 8.3 or later o Oracle 10.2 or later o MS SQL 2005 or later * When upgrading to Moodle 2.0, you must have Moodle 1.9 or later. if you are using an earlier version of Moodle (eg 1.8.x) then you need to upgrade to Moodle 1.9.x first. New Community features * Community hub - Moodle.com Makes it easy for teachers to find other courses to download as templates fo
John Paul Posada

Australian Access Federation - 0 views

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single sign on portals authentication

shared by John Paul Posada on 26 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • John Paul Posada on 26 Aug 09
     
    The Australian Access Federation (AAF) provides a framework and support infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas. The AAF uses cutting edge technologies to provide a range of automatic identification services, which will allow authentication of people (researchers, teachers and students) and resources (servers, services, networks, instruments and data). It enables resource owners to identify and authorise a researcher to access online resources, such as computer facilities, data and other research infrastructure, at their home institution, at other Australian institutions, and around the world.
Lyn Collins

Is making your course accessible important? | MQASMQAS - 0 views

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accessibility accessible design course_design online

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  • Lyn Collins on 06 Mar 13
     
    "According to the Australian Disability Clearninghouse on Education and Training (ADCET) The number of students with disability in university study has increased from 11,656 in 1995 to 42,111 in 2011 and that one in five people in Australia have one or more disabilities, which is increasing. This means that 1 in 20 students has a disability that impacts on their study. Improving student outcomes requires us to "build-in" equitable policies and practices across the organisation, as statistically as much as 20% of the student-body need it, and have a right to it."
Robyn Jay

The eLearning Guild : e-Learning 2.0 - 0 views

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elearning research trends issues emergingtechnologies university

shared by Robyn Jay on 01 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Key Findings Here are just some of the findings from this report:E-Learning 2.0 modalities are growing at very fast rates with use of blogs up 20.7% from a year ago, communities of practice up 12.3%, and Wikis up 7.7%.40% of respondents indicate they are making some use of e-Learning 2.0 approaches.Over the next 12 months, 70.1% of survey respondents plan to apply more e-Learning 2.0 approaches to their learning endeavors.66% of survey respondents believe that younger workers will demand e-Learning 2.0 approaches to performance support.Only 28.1% of members report that their organizations are preparing workers on using Web 2.0 approaches for learning and work.Among members working in organizations with 10,000 or more workers, 10.8% cannot access LinkedIn, 26.2% cannot access Gmail, 35.0% cannot access YouTube, and 39.2% cannot access either Facebook or MySpace.Among members who have made significant use of e-Learning 2.0 approaches, 60.6% reporting improved learner / user performance.
Kristin Turnbull

Universal instructional design principles for Moodle | Elias | The International Review... - 5 views

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  • Kristin Turnbull on 26 Sep 11
     
    The paper identifies a set of universal instructional design (UID) principles appropriate to distance education (DE) and tailored to the needs of instructional designers and instructors teaching online. These principles are then used to assess the accessibility level of a sample online course and the availability of options in its LMS platform (Moodle) to increase course accessibility.
Robyn Jay

A critical examination of Blackboard's e-learning environment - Coopman - 3 views

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coopman blackboard review critique

shared by Robyn Jay on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • teaching/learning as performance and teaching/learning as text
  • perceived institutional presence — the degree to which online learners felt connected to the university — was positively related to learning outcomes, satisfaction with the course, and intent to stay in the program.
  • students in the traditional classes interacted with each other far less than those in the hybrid (Web–enhanced) classes
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  • quality of interaction in online discussions, rather than quantity, may be the better predictor of student achievement
  • Interrogating the structure of learning management systems such as Blackboard brings to light the unnoticed ways in which the software frames online classroom interaction
  • Rose (2004) argued in her critique of learning management systems that the mediated tools instructors use to teach their classes are not value–free. The author lamented that “there is no acknowledgment of the fundamental transformations that must be wreaked upon content imported into platforms such as WebCT and Blackboard, nor of the fact that the very structure of these systems constrains instructional possibilities and decision–making.” [4] Like a highly bureaucratic organization, once a structure is built into a learning management system, changing the structure becomes unimaginable (Sandvig, 2006).
  • Online class discussions typically involve more student–student interaction and less instructor–student interaction. Lobel, et al. (2005) found that instructors were the center of the interaction network during in person discussions whereas the group was the center during online discussions. Blackboard’s discussion feature allows students to interact directly with each other, bypassing the instructor. However, the degree of structural flexibility in a Blackboard discussion board resides to a large extent in the decisions the instructor makes. May students attach files? May students start new discussion threads? May students post anonymously? Do they rate each other’s messages? What is the rating system?
  • What has changed is the instructor’s increased ability to track students’ use of the class Web site: number of messages posted, number of messages read, and how many times various pages or sections are accessed. Mullen (2002) argued that this type of information seems to provide an objective measure of student engagement, but in fact creates a dangerously decontextualized, essentialized image of a class in which levels of “participation” stand in for evidence of learning having taken place. Students are treated not as learners, as partners in an educational enterprise, but as users
  • “The brave new world of digital education promises greater access, increased democratic participation, and the transcendence of discrimination through pure minds. We must interrogate the actuality of these hypes: who has access, is participation online transformative, and is transcendence of difference a goal of progressive pedagogies?” [8]
Bronwyn Davies

Accessibility_white_paper.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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accessibility elluminate VirtualClassrooms web2.0

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  • Bronwyn Davies on 10 Aug 10
     
    Elluminate and the Accessibility Imperative - White Paper
Robyn Jay

Radical transparency: Open access as a key concept in wiki pedagogy - 1 views

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ajet wiki pedagogy wikis_in_education

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  • Robyn Jay on 02 Nov 10
     
    "Radical transparency: Open access as a key concept in wiki pedagogy"
anonymous

J.K.Rowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more - 0 views

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accessibility webdesign

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  • anonymous on 02 Jul 09
     
    Accessibility enabled website
Lyn Collins

Guidelines for Online Course Accessibility | Faculty Focus - 1 views

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guidelines online course accessibility

shared by Lyn Collins on 14 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Lyn Collins on 14 Jul 14
     
    Good summary article that canvasses the technical and pedagogical challenges as well as the solutions.
Robyn Jay

iStanford for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

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istanford

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  • Robyn Jay on 18 Oct 10
     
    "* Maps: Search for buildings / places on campus, see bus routes and live locations, use GPS to find where you are on the 8,180 acre campus * Directory: Search for students, faculty, and staff in the Stanford directory, tap to call or email, add them as contacts on your phone * Courses: Search for classes, find out where and when they're offered, tap to call or email the professor, enroll during open enrollment, view your courses and grades * Athletics: Get news, scores, and schedules for every Stanford varsity sport * Images: Get photo images of Stanford University, send to a friend, save as wallpaper * Events: Get information about things happening on campus * Videos: Check out Stanford content on YouTube (UTV) * News: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! News from a variety of Stanford news sources - Stanford News, the Daily, Graduate School of Business, Medicine, athletics, and more! * Stanford on iTunes U: Access thousands of Stanford audio and video recordings- including courses, faculty lectures and campus performances - in iTunes U * Library: Search the prodigious content of Stanford libraries in a variety of ways, show content availability and location, call number, view item in SearchWorks * Emergency: Call to report emergency or non-emergency, call to obtain information from the Stanford Emergency Information Hotline * 5-SURE: Call to get a safe ride home"
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