[Jillian Pawlyn]

Hi Brian, thanks.

I don’t think the fully online course can be ‘accessible to all’. But I do think we can do our best to make it accessible to many/most.

If we develop learning resources with an awareness of functionality with screen readers, closed captions, adjustable font styles sizes, colours. software and apps which work across platforms and devices. Offering relevant language options in multilingual institutions.

With robust process for learners to inform us of their specific support needs and processes in place to provide assessments which are not detrimental to the student who has known support needs.

You can read my response in my Blog.

[Jillian Pawlyn]

Elizabeth I do like the scrabble letters image, this is something we value here in New Zealand. We have a concept ‘Ako‘  this means both to teach and to learn. It also encompasses reciprocal learning relationships and values learning from each other, so social and collaborative literacies are very important.

Hi Ali and Elizabeth, I enjoyed reading both your blogs.  You can read my contribution here 

 

[Jillian Pawlyn]

So may really great comments and insights.

I agree with RebeccaOGM, I think the surveys provide a useful starting point for learners who have yet to engage with distance/on-line learning.

I sub consciously appraised my technology provision and skills before signing up for ocTEL (as someone who has been engaged in the technology for many years perhaps I have already been conditioned to think about my own learning using intrinsic ‘survey questions’).

Geography and local infrastructure is a significant factor for me at the moment.  I am studying ocTEL from New Zealand and my home broadband is sluggish at times,  because of instability I access the recorded webinars rather than the live streams.

You can read my ramblings on my blog.

 

[Jillian Pawlyn]

My practice also moves across the matrix depending on what I am teaching and to whom.

In the example I reflect on on my blog I am more in the Individual domain, moving between Directed towards Autonomous as the workshop progresses.

[Jillian Pawlyn]

My contribution – http://jillianpawlynoctel.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/activity-11-champions-and-critics-of.html

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