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The Benefits of Open Education for Students with Disabilities
A general guide to how open formats, adaptable files and flexible pacing can help students with disabilities, with the accessibility basics that make the difference.
Access and Inclusion
Learning Support and Disability
Open education for students who need accessible or adapted learning.
Breaking Down Barriers: Accessibility in Open Education and Online Learning
A practical catalog of the common barriers to online and open learning, from cost and bandwidth to disability, language and time, with a realistic fix for each.
Breaking Down Barriers: The Benefits of Open Education for Students with Disabilities
How open learning materials can work with screen readers, captions and other assistive technology, and what makes a resource compatible in the first place.
Breaking Down Barriers: The Impact of Open Education on Accessibility
A catalog of cost, language, format and technical barriers to learning, with an honest look at which of them openness removes and which it leaves in place.
Creating Open Education Resources for Special Needs Education
A teacher-facing guide to planning and adapting open lessons within special needs education settings, including how to coordinate with support staff.
Creating Open Education Resources for Special Needs Students
What makes an open resource usable on its own by individual students: clear structure, step-by-step support, choice of pace, and ways to check understanding.
Open Education and Accessibility: Breaking Down Barriers for All
Universal design means building materials for every learner from the start, with flexible formats and choices, instead of retrofitting adjustments for individuals.
Open Education and Accessibility: Breaking Down Barriers to Learning
A practical guide to offering the same content as text, audio, captioned video and large print, and how open licenses let others make those versions.
Open Education and Accessibility: Ensuring Equal Access to Learning
What legal and practical expectations of equal access can mean for open courses, plus a simple method for auditing a resource for accessibility problems.
Open Education and Inclusive Practice
Day-to-day teaching routines that help make open courses usable for all learners, from clear expectations and flexible deadlines to feedback and check-ins.
Open Education and the Importance of Accessibility in Online Learning
An introduction to web accessibility standards for online courses, covering captions, screen reader support, contrast, keyboard use and how to test them.
Open Education: A Game-Changer for Accessibility and Equity
What makes open materials usable by more learners, which accessible open formats genuinely help, and where the game-changer claim runs out.
Open Education: A Key to Unlocking Accessibility and Inclusion
How inclusive learning design supports learners with disabilities and different home languages, through captions, readable layouts and flexible formats.
The Benefits of Online Learning for Students with English Language Learning Needs
How replay, captions and self-paced study can help second-language learners follow courses in English, and where online learning still falls short for them.
The Benefits of Online Learning for Students with Learning Disabilities
How text-to-speech, flexible pacing and structured layouts can support learners with dyslexia and similar needs, and what to be cautious about.
The Benefits of Online Learning for Students with Physical Disabilities
How remote study can remove travel and building barriers for learners with mobility impairments, and which new problems online courses can introduce.
The Benefits of Open Education for Students with Learning Difficulties
Study supports for students who find reading, writing or numeracy hard: repetition, varied formats and self-paced practice, with realistic expectations.
The Benefits of Open Education for Students with Learning Disabilities
How open texts can be adapted for diagnosed learning disabilities such as dyslexia, using multimodal content and working with formal support services.
The Benefits of Open Education for Students with Mental Health Issues
How flexible schedules, low-pressure entry and self-pacing may help students managing mental health, with a clear note that learning is not a substitute for care.
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