A collective of conversations about pedagogy and educational technologies. New episodes are released fortnightly on Wednesday.
We’re back! After a lengthy absence, the iTeach Online Podcast is back with new presenters and new interviews.
To celebrate the Digital Accessibility Conference 2024, we have a special episode that focuses on the digital accessibility and digital usability work here at the University of Nottingham.
The Learning Technology section within the Library at UoN have been working on creating more accessible content for students and staff for the last few years, in this episode the team responsible for the work sit down for a discussion that shows how far they have come with both content and usability of technology.
Hosts
Ben Atkinson, Claire Storr and Simon Barnett
Guests
Nicholas Cameron, Julian Tenney, Amanda Hill, Theresa Morely and Christopher Ward
Running Order
00:00 Welcome back to the podcast
03:05 Digital Accessibility at Nottingham – Part 1
24:32 Making Moodle more usable and accessible for the Faculty of Science
47:55 Digital Accessibility at Nottingham – Part 2
1:08:19 Wrap Up
Links
Sign up and read more about the Digital Accessibility Conference
Find out more about the Nottingham Accessible Practices NAPS
Read more about the Learning Technology Section in our blog or follow us on X
You can also visit our SharePoint site (University of Nottingham only)
Don’t forget to add us to your podcast feed, we’ve got more episodes coming in 2024.
Production elements in this podcast provided by Music Radio Creative and Pixabay.
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