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With Innovation and Empathy, Remote Learning Becomes Accessible for All Students

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It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. Ask students how they are feeling about assignments or specific strategies and why they are feeling that way. You can read part one here.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

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Efforts to include all individuals, including those with disabilities in educational settings should prioritize specific measures to ensure their full participation in all activities. These groups can provide a sense of belonging and peer support. Discussion boards, reflective assignments, and peer reviews can facilitate this exchange.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind Debunked: Humanizing Asynchronous Online Courses Using an Inclusive Survey

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Historically, college students are reluctant to self-disclose their disability status. Students’ response to this question gives us an early opportunity to connect students—who might not know the process—with our college’s office of disability services. I would love for you to provide feedback on my graded assignments.” “I

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

Efforts to include all individuals, including those with disabilities in educational settings should prioritize specific measures to ensure their full participation in all activities. These groups can provide a sense of belonging and peer support. Discussion boards, reflective assignments, and peer reviews can facilitate this exchange.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind Debunked: Humanizing Asynchronous Online Courses Using an Inclusive Survey

Faculty Focus

Historically, college students are reluctant to self-disclose their disability status. Students’ response to this question gives us an early opportunity to connect students—who might not know the process—with our college’s office of disability services. I would love for you to provide feedback on my graded assignments.” “I

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

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Instructors also “don’t have to be the expert in [open source] licenses or Section 508 compliance,” he adds, referring to a federal law that mandates electronic teaching materials are accessible to people with disabilities. Reviews for relevancy and accurateness “went beyond the community college in that sense,” the instructor says.

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Promoting Access to Diverse Learning Opportunities through Open Resources, Equity, and Accessibility

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Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. In another course, nearly 60% of the students read all of the assigned OER materials and 53% of those students who shared the content had completed more than the usual number of readings, when compared to other courses. link] Zhang, X., Nascimbeni, F.,