AEM OER Slide Text

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Accessible Educational Materials (AEM)

Open Educational Resources

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Mike Marotta, ATP

Inclusive Technology Solutions, LLC

RESNA Certified Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)


website: www.mmatp.com


email: mike@mmatp.com


twitter: @mmatp

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Please use Today’s Meet to participate!

todaysmeet.com/TempleAT


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Accessible Educational Materials (AEM)

Audio

Braille

Large Print

Digital Text


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Print Disability Overview

  • Student is not able to use standard print materials
  • Frequently the result of a visual impairment, physical disability or reading disability
  • Meets copyright criteria for specialized formats
  • Federal definition of “Print Disability”

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Check this out

Aem.cast.org

AEM Navigator

AEM Explorer


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Key Questions When Investigating Repositories of Accessible Text


  • What is the nature of the collections? (e.g., subject area collections, textbooks, periodicals, trade books, etc.)
  • What formats are available from the repository? (e.g., .txt, .rtf, .doc, .docx, .pdf, etc.)
  • Is there a cost to access the files in the repository?
  • Who qualifies?


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Protocol for Accommodations

in Reading (PAR)

DeCoste & Bastiani-Wilson

Available for Free at Don Johnston Incorporated

http://donjohnston.com


PAR is a systematic assessment process to evaluate accommodations for reading


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Popular Repositories

  • Readily Available Content (e.g., public domain e-text and audio e-text equivalents, Public Library Audio Books)
  • Commercially Available Content (e.g., Audible.com, Recorded Books, ITunes Music Store, Amazon, University bookstores, etc.)


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Popular Repositories


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Popular Repositories


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Popular Repositories

  • Accesstext Network (accesstext.org)
    • Collection Holdings: Textbooks, Periodicals, Tradebooks


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Accessible Educational Materials (AEM)

How can we provide materials that meet the unique needs of learners


WHILE


Harnessing the power of mobile devices?


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Aem.cast.org


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What if you can’t find materials?

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Don’t reinvent the wheel

Redesign it


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Open Educational Resources (OER)

"OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.


Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."

The William and Flora Hewett Foundation


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Open Educational Resources (OER)

The 5R Permissions of OER

  • Retain
    • Make, own and control copies of content
  • Reuse
    • Use content in a variety of ways
  • Revise
    • Adapt, adjust, modify, improve or alter the content
  • Remix
    • Combine with other OER to create something new
  • Redistribute
    • Share copies

Lumenlearning.com


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Open Educational Resources (OER

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If you build it they will come


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Digital Publishing

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"Publishing is no longer a job -

but a button." - from Clay Shirky


(author of Here Comes Everything and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age)


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iBooks Author

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Book Creator

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Personal Reflection


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Mike Marotta, ATP


RESNA Certified Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)

Inclusive Technology Solutions, LLC

mmatp.com



mike@mmatp.com



@mmatp