OERs for Inclusive Learning and Teaching Environments (Further Course)

This page lists all the Open Educational Resources (OERs) that were created for the further course Inclusive Learning and Teaching Environments, which was created by the University of Southampton.

These OERs are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY 4.0). Simply put, this licence allows you to share, adapt and redistribute the content of the OERs, provided that you correctly attribute the original creators of these resources (University of Southampton). If you are not familiar with this licence, please read it before reusing these OERs.

The entire content of the course is stored as a set of OERs in a Google Drive folder, except for the videos, which can be downloaded from a dedicated channel on Vimeo. Below is a breakdown of all the OERs.

Week 1: Creating Inclusive Learning Practices

• Step 1.1: Why should we care about inclusive learning and teaching?
• Step 1.2: Welcome to the course
• Step 1.3: Join the online community: no OER.
• Step 1.4: Creating a companion glossary:
  Creating a Companion Glossary (Word format), wordcloud image used in the previous document, list of words in the wordcloud (Word format).
• Step 1.5: Welcome to week 1.
• Step 1.6: Academic perspective (video, Professor Graeme Earl):
  • video (MP4 format, 473 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Academic perspective (Word format), Academic perspective (PDF format)
• Step 1.7: Institutional perspective (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 250 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Institutional perspective (Word document introducing the video)
  • Video transcript: Inclusive teaching – institutional perspective (Word document).
• Step 1.8: Student perspective (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 400 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Student perspective (Word document introducing the video).
  • Video transcript: Inclusive teaching – student perspective (Word format).
• Step 1.9: Inclusion, adjustments and accommodations (audio):
  • MP3 file (1 MB),
  • The social model of disability (Word format),
  • Audio transcript: Inclusion, adjustments and accomodations.
• Step 1.10: The social model of disability (short article with a links to an external article and a YouTube video).
  The social model of disability (Word format).
• Step 1.11: Circles of inclusion: Circles of inclusion (Word format), image with Venn diagram used in the document.
• Step 1.12: Born accessible: Born Accessible (Word document).
• Step 1.13: Multiple formats (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 451 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Multiple formats (Word document introducing the video).
  • Video transcript: Inclusive design – multiple formats (PDF format).
• Step 1.14: Institutional benefits of multiple formats (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 392 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Video transcript: Word format, PDF format.
• Step 1.15: Checking for the key points to producing multiple formats (video):
  • Checking for the key points to producing multiple formats (Word format).
  • video (MP4 format, 308 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Video Transcript: What are the key points to producing multiple formats? Word format, PDF format.
• Step 1.16: Exercise: make a document that can be converted into multiple formats
  • Exercise: make a document that can be converted into multiple formats (Word format).
  • The document used in the exercise: Making Microsoft Word documents accessible.
  • Accessible version of the same document: Making Microsoft Word Documents Accessible (Word format), Making Microsoft Word Documents Accessible (PDF format).

Week 2: Developing Inclusive Learning Environments

• Step 2.1: Welcome to week 1.
• Step 2.2: Exercise: what can we do to ensure inclusive teaching practices? (audio)
  • MP3 file,
  • transcript,
  • Word document introducing the audio file.
• Step 2.3: Can technology help us to communicate in an inclusive way? (video)
  • video (MP4 format, 569 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: PDF format.
• Step 2.4: Lecture capture: innovative or unwelcome technology? Word document, pro and cons image used in the Word document, text version of the pros and cons image.
• Step 2.6: How do you work with your library to improve inclusivity? (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 325 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: Word document, PDF document.
• Step 2.7: Student reading experience (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 229 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: Word document, PDF document.
• Step 2.8: Meet Mary taking a statistics course: Word document.
• Step 2.9: Technology making STEM subjects inclusive
• Step 2.10: Maths notation and terminology: Word document, image used in the document.
• Step 2.11: Working in STEM subjects, the field and laboratories:
  • video (MP4 format, 450 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: Word format, PDF format.
• Step 2.12: Meet Alexander studying for a distance learning MBA: Word document.
• Step 2.13: Creative courses and technology: Word document.
• Step 2.14: Challenges of architecture: Word document.
• Step 2.15: Meet Anna doing a fashion and textile design course: Word document.
• Step 2.16: Reflection:
  • Word document,
  • UK Department of Education: Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Higher Education as a route to Excellence (January 2017; PDF format). © Crown copyright 2017; licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated.

Week 3: Encouraging Inclusive Learning Opportunities

• Step 3.1: Welcome to week 3.
• Step 3.2: The pros and cons of shared learning activities (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 494 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: Word format, PDF format.
• Step 3.3: Social and learning technologies, now and in the future: Word document.
• Step 3.4: Technology power user (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 275 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: Word document, PDF document.
• Step 3.5: Can we use mobile technology to support collaboration? Word document.
• Step 3.6: Creating inclusive assessments (video and text):
  • video (MP4 format, 244 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video, image used in the document.
  • Video transcript: Word format, PDF format.
• Step 3.7: Meet Carole, a postgraduate studying History: Word document.
• Step 3.8: Technology for creativity and planning (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 123 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: Word format, PDF format.
• Step 3.9: Using multimedia for complex subjects (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 134 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: Word format, PDF format.
• Step 3.10: Inclusion a buzzword or priority? Word document.
• Step 3.11: Using cloud technology (video):
  • video (MP4 format, 200 MB), captions in VTT format, captions in plain text.
  • Word document introducing the video.
  • Video transcript: Word format, PDF format.
• Step 3.12: Reflection.
• Step 3.13: Goodbye! (No OER.)