Open Educational Resources (OER) & Textbook Equity

Blackboard login required. Developed by UNI IT staff Lori Seawel & Carolyn Dorr. The 9 modules available cover terminology, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), assistive technology, document accessibility, and more. There is an option to receive a Course Completion Certificate.

"A tool to help you enhance the usability and accessibility of your course documents for students. Ally evaluates documents that are uploaded to Blackboard Learn and provides an accessibility score for each file [...] For files that don't comply with accessibility guidelines, Ally leads you through the steps needed to improve the accessibility of the document."

Amanda Coolidge, Sue Doner, Tara Robertson, and Josie Gray

See already-reviewed resources at: Open Responses

Suggestions for ensuring accessibility when using Google, Microsoft, and Adobe productivity software.

National Center on Accessible Educational Materials

"A framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn."

From Open Education Network. Provides a list of OER that represent diversity & inclusion themes.

From the Open Education Network. Provides DEI guiding principles and considerations when creating or evaluating OER.

Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) Collaborative

Examples and guest blog posts focused on the intersection between inclusion and OER.

OpenStax

A self-paced course