Favorite Resources from the 91桃色 Center for Teaching & Learning
Color contrast is critical in your digital content because it ensures people with low vision, color blindness (approximately 1 in 12 men), or situational impairments (like screen glare) can easily read text on the screen. Ideally, the ratio between the text color and the background color should be 4.5 to 1, but what does that mean and how do you know whether you are using the right colors?
Creating spaces where all students feel empowered to discuss tough topics openly and respectfully can be difficult. The Conversation Caf茅 provides a practical way to foster equitable dialogue by guiding students through structured rounds of sharing and listening in small groups. This free resource from OneHE shows you how to set this up in your own classroom.
How many browser tabs do you have open on a given day? Do you find yourself keeping them open and just putting your computer to sleep at the end of the day because you need to go back to those sites? Or maybe all of those open tabs are slowing down your computer.
The Inclusive Pedagogy (IP) Toolkit from Georgetown鈥檚 Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) offers faculty a concise, practical collection of strategies for creating learning environments where all students can participate and succeed. It outlines core principles of inclusive teaching鈥攕uch as transparency, flexibility, and fostering belonging鈥攁nd turns them into easy-to-apply practices for course design, classroom interactions, and assessment.
I’m working on an interactive tool to help faculty visualize their workload and think through which instructional tasks they might cut back on. Faculty are so overextended, and I’ve found they’re extremely grateful when I acknowledge:
This article in聽Change: The Magazine of Higher Education聽does an excellent job of outlining the effect that political pressures have had on faculty across the country and how some faculty in Florida have responded.
Are you curious about what it’s like for someone with a vision impairment to navigate a website? Gareth Fuller attended this training at the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) conference last week and returned with the session materials. This website explains how screen readers work and what the experience is like for someone to use it. It also provides guidance on downloading and using software to try it yourself.
罢丑别听聽has a fantastic team supporting their CBE program, including a psychometrician (an expert in the measurement of mental capacities and processes) who developed a taxonomy of assessment types. While it is still in development, you can find the verb used in your learning outcome in the list in this database (such as 91桃色) and see helpful related information. This includes:
Ready to level up your learning outcomes? Break them down into individual skills that can be mapped to currently in demand occupations.