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The Power of Open Resources for Learners: Accessibility and Freedom

Explore the advantages of open and free resources for learners, from text to video to audio, enhancing accessibility and promoting inclusive education. Discover practical tools and strategies to empower learners.

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The Power of Open Resources for Learners: Accessibility and Freedom

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  1. Open resources and accessibility: The learner benefits of being open and free

  2. Open resources and accessibility The learner benefits of being open and free Dave Foord A6 Training and Consultancy Ltd JISC TechDis Accredited Trainer @davefoord

  3. JISC TechDis

  4. JISC TechDis ethos Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dandiffendale/3342770174/

  5. The mobile revolution

  6. Types of content

  7. Text

  8. Text – what can students do? Text to speech. Change colours. View on mobile device. Import into a mind map. Spell checker.

  9. Images

  10. Images – what can students do? View on mobile device. Zoom. Add effects to aid vision. OCR on a phone.

  11. Video http://accessyoutube.org.uk/play/?v=DSIdaTSG2Gg&s=DSIdaTSG2Gg

  12. Video – what can students do? View on mobile device. Auto captioning. Added captions. Accessible YouTube player.

  13. Audio

  14. Audio – what can students do? Use on a mobile device. Pause, rewind, skip. Amplify. RSS.

  15. Dave Foord www.a6training.co.uk http://davefoord.wordpress.com/

  16. Links http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/ (JISC TechDis) http://eduapps.org/ (free software) http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ (Jorum – free resources) http://commons.wikimedia.org/ (Wikimedia – image search) http://www.youtube.com/ (YouTube) http://captiontube.appspot.com/ (CaptionTube – subtitling YouTube) http://accessyoutube.org.uk/ (Accessible YouTube) http://www.socialsciencespace.com/author/socialsciencebites/ (Social science podcasts) http://davefoord.wordpress.com (Dave Foord’s blog)

  17. Open resources and accessibility: The learner benefits of being open and free

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