This week was about getting my feet wet in Brightspace.
I started the certificate course and am working through the modules. There were a couple of points of confusion but it’s pretty straightforward. I am almost finished module 2.
Jen and I met a couple of times to plan our training sessions for the first group who will adopt Brightspace.
I attended the Increasing Access Faculty Learning Community. Not a huge turn out but some very enthusiastic participants. I enjoy talking about UDL. The access conversation is quite broad, because the subject is.
I gathered some links for Open Access week that is coming up later this week. I see that BCcampus is asking around for what institutions are doing so there may be some more offerings to share.
I came across this Inclusive Access piece last week and then Tannis tweeted it (so I looked at it again) and she shared this twitter feed:
The student debt crisis isn’t merely attributable to spiraling tuition prices – there’s a whole menagerie of feral hogs scrumming to get their snouts in the student debt-trap trough.
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) October 7, 2021
Take textbook publishers.
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A good reminder that one important part of access is affordable resources – and Open Educational Resources are worth advocating for.
for the upcoming week I’ve started booking specific times in my calendar for each of things I need to get done. We’ll see how that goes.