Both Tony Bates, and Stephen Downes have commented on the article, Getting into the online learning industry so I thought why not throw in my 2-cents. If you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed that I often share out instructional design (and sometimes ID adjacent) job postings. While I focus primarily on higher…
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Improving a Digital Experience
How to do a UX accessibility evaluation Which of the four principles (perceivable, operable, understandable, robust) should the designer focus most effort on? This kind of depends on the context the designer finds themselves in. Do they also build the digital product or do they work with a developer? If the latter, how do the…
That One Thing – Judo
It’s not something you are passionate about, it’s a thing you take on with a regular practice. Alan Levine wrote a post about That One Thing as part of a 6x6x5 challenge, and the timing is kind of coincidental. You see, just a couple of weeks ago I was visiting with some friends, and one…
Accessibility Design Patterns
Accessibility Guidelines for UX Designers Did any recommendation feel particularly meaningful? The article presents several categories of guidelines and items comprising the categories (items in bold are ones that caught my attention): Content and Structure – meaningful links, colour, consistent navigation, consistent components, use of headings, and multiple ways (to locate pages) Device-independent design –…
Accessibility Guidelines
Understanding the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Make a list of the four principles of WCAG and Define Each in Your Own Terms Web content should be: Perceivable: “Users must be able to perceive it in some way, using one or more of their senses.” The web contains different types of media – text, images, video,…
Evaluating a Digital Experience
How to Manually Check Your Website for Accessibility Why is manual accessibility testing important? The article states that automated accessibility checkers can only correct around 30% of accessibility issues. That number surprised me, but thinking back on my recent experiences that actually makes a lot of sense. For example, the accessibility checked included in Canvas…
Assistive Technology
Assistive technology devices: using the web Do you have any experience with assistive technologies? A few of the alternative input devices covered in this week’s reading materials include: head pointers single switch devices foot switches sip and puff switches, and eye tracking software Of these I have seen head pointers and sip and puff switches…
New H5P Content Type – Information Wall
Earlier today, Oliver Tacke posted a new content type he developed for a special project. You won’t find this type in the H5P content hub, but as Oliver says, As usual, if you want to use the content type and if are allowed to install H5P libraries, you can simply download this demo content via…
How do you present learning objectives to your students?
By the end of this paper, readers should be able to: 1) examine the effectiveness of learning objectives (LOs) on retention of expository text, 2) evaluate a method to present LOs that optimizes learning, and 3) explain why this method is better than simply providing LOs in the form of traditional statements. – Sana, F.,…
Alternative delivery methods for distance education: a history
In case my comment on Tony’s blog gets eaten I thought I would repost here what I left as a comment there. While the original post provides some interesting examples of distance education delivery they are mostly examples from our southern neighbours. For a Canadian example we can look to the University of Saskatchewans Better Farming…