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Teaching in the Modern World

Enhance your teaching skills in the digital age with insights on content delivery, accessibility, and LMS usage. Get tips on creating digital content, using publisher materials, and ensuring accessibility compliance.

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Teaching in the Modern World

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  1. Teaching in the Modern World Carolyn Speer, PhD Instructional Design and Access Fall, 2017

  2. Agenda My Assumptions The Digital World is Forever Th Real World Accessibility

  3. Assumptions of this training • Higher education classrooms (although K-12 teachers also will benefit) • Will likely receive little training in teaching • The influence of accessibility and digital resources is growing • Your teaching career will be impacted by: • The LMS(s) you use • Publisher-created materials • Accessibility litigation/legislation/regulation

  4. The digital world 4

  5. Modern Teaching is Infused With Digital Stuff • Even if you teach only f-2-f for your entire career, you will use digital stuff • Digital content • Texts • Online resources (yours and publishers’) • Homework (assigned and submitted) • Library resources • Digital environments and tools • Online and LMS’s • Social media • Apps

  6. More on Digital Content – Publisher Content • Publishers maintaining profitability • Online texts • Online homework platforms • What you need to know: • Expense • Often available elsewhere for free • Work through the material yourself • Support comes from publishers, not universities

  7. More on Digital Content – Your Content • Create content digitally • Better for organization and sharing • Remember your phone’s capabilities • What you need to know: • Photocopies are not digital, even if you share them digitally • It’s easy to stumble into accessibility problems • Use your software’s tools • You might share ownership with your university/college

  8. Digital Delivery • “Digital delivery” covers a lot of ground • Email • Social media • LMS’s (Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, etc) • Apps • In-class sharing • What you need to know: • Do what works, not necessarily what’s new • Be aware of access issues: cost, motor skills, sight

  9. More on Digital Delivery -- Your LMS • You will have to learn your LMS! • Wichita State: Blackboard • Butler CC: Canvas • Cowley CC: Blackboard • Kansas State: Canvas • University of Kansas: Blackboard • What you need to know: • Almost all online/LMS problems are human (it’s not really “Bb’s fault”) • If you learn the system, you will be much more valuable to the institution • Instructional design is a good career

  10. More on Digital Delivery: What an LMS Can Do • Organize content • Documents (PDF or HTML!) • Video (Host elsewhere and link!) • Audio (Host elsewhere and link if you can) • Provide quizzing/testing platform • Provide an interaction space • Organize communication • “course messages” etc.

  11. More on Digital Delivery – What an LMS Can’t Do Teach

  12. Cheat Sheet to WSU’s Digital Problems • Browser incompatibility with Blackboard (avoid Explorer) • Unwillingness to try another browser • Logging in to Bb through MyWSU (never, ever do that) • Loading large files directly into Blackboard • Not having basic Bb training • Not using OneStop • Ignoring accessibility issues

  13. More on Digital Delivery – The Rest of the Field • Apps are popular, but be careful! • Privacy • Access (monetary, physical) • University policy • In-class sharing • Very good practice • Email • Great for tracking, lousy for communication • Social media • Let your students be your guide

  14. Questions?

  15. Accessibility 15

  16. What you must know about accessibility • ”Accessibility”: Everything done proactively to improve educational access for populations of people • Civil rights issue • Increasing federal focus since 2010 • Serious ramifications to institutions found to be in violation • Some misaligned incentives between institutions and teaching staff can lead to tensions • All institutions have help available for you • Once a Shocker, always a Shocker

  17. What WSU can do for you • We have accessibility training you can receive • Online UDL class • Online training articles • Personal help from Instructional Design and Access (IDA@wichita.edu) Bit.ly/ModernTeaching

  18. Digital Rules of Thumb • Avoid handwritten documents • Find digital versions of photocopied documents, or recreate them • Use Microsoft products to produce new content for your class when possible • Use your Microsoft accessibility tools when creating content (styles sheets, bullet/numbers, checker) • Use Arial (just kidding…but sans serif is best) • Remember: PDF and .HTM files are easier for your students to open online

  19. More Digital Rules of Thumb • Avoid unnecessary bells and whistles (and color) • Avoid unnecessary tables • Avoid unnecessary visual and organizational complexity • Remember: a picture really is worth “1,000 words” • Name your hyperlinks on digital documents • Caption video, or find video that is captioned

  20. Textbook & Publisher Content Rules of Thumb • Ask “what is not accessible?” • Avoid Flash-based content • Check for captions • Remember: not all “digital” content is accessible content • Remember: “equally effective” is a high standard • Remember: high cost is low access • Remember: publishers aren’t liable, we are • Remember: you are not alone. Get help

  21. Questions?

  22. Thank You for Your Time!

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