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Interactive & Accessible

Interactive & Accessible. Allan Sutherland. Balance…. Between meeting the needs of all disabled students, and students with learning difficulties, without disadvantaging others Our responsibility is to make the learning experience accessible. Accessibility is…. Being aware of new legislation

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Interactive & Accessible

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  1. Interactive & Accessible Allan Sutherland

  2. Balance… • Between meeting the needs of all disabled students, and students with learning difficulties, without disadvantaging others • Our responsibility is to make the learning experience accessible

  3. Accessibility is… • Being aware of new legislation • Considering how disabled learners and students with learning difficulties interact with ILT • Knowing the enabling potential of ILT • Providing alternatives • Designing for all

  4. Accessibility is not… • Plain, boring or dull content or design • Putting other learners at a disadvantage • Expensive and time consuming technical solutions • Avoiding the use of ILT • Only about assistive technology • Working in isolation

  5. Interactive & Accessible • What do we mean by ‘interactive’? • Something more than ‘point & click’? • Limitations of text-only alternatives • Multimedia & disabilities • Different types of interactivity can extend the learner’s experience and increase accessibility...

  6. Types of interactivity • Nicola Durbridge: ‘Interaction in Multimedia’ (http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/n.h.durbridge/interactioninmultimedia.htm) • Helpful definitions of interactivity: • Interception • Interchange • Interplay • Intercommunicate • Interrogate • Interleave

  7. Interception: ‘a cutting across or interruption’ • Empowers the user • A deliberate break away from online • Perhaps a f2f discussion • Perhaps further reading or research • How accessible?

  8. Interchange: ‘to cause things to become different’ • Enabling user experimentation with the appearance of things • Games technology • real time strategy • world building • simulations • racing • How accessible?

  9. Interplay: ‘reciprocal play that is completely free’ • ‘Play’: most important feature of instructional style – time for sharing skills and ideas and then experimenting (Becta research) • Learning by doing • Web based action mazes (e.g. ‘Quandary’) • in which the user is presented with a number of choices & on choosing one option is then presented with the resulting situation & more options • How accessible?

  10. Intercommunicate: ‘transmit to & from’ • Synchronous & asynchronous • Chat rooms & discussion boards • Campfires, watering-holes & caves • Wake Forest findings • How accessible?

  11. Interrogate: ‘to ask questions’ • Asking the tutor • Asking fellow students • Searching the web • Favourite web sites • How accessible?

  12. Interleave: ‘to insert blank pages’ • ‘any interaction in which a user organises material electronically’ • Cutting and pasting • Inserting graphics • Following hyperlinks…readers as authors • How accessible?

  13. Practical examples • Time now to look at some practical examples of ILT and accessibility…

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