WikiEducator:Featured OERu Projects

Introduction to Web Accessibility

Introduction to Web Accessibility is aimed at a general audience, but will also be useful for those developing content or applications for the Web. The focus is on understanding the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), and developing experience with barriers that can be found on the Web that make it difficult, or impossible, for some people with disabilities to access web content.

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Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice

Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice is aimed primarily at managers and business owners. Learn how an organization can go about ensuring it is as accessible as it can be to all its potential clients or customers, including people with disabilities, and complies with local and international accessibility regulations.

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Professional Web Accessibility Auditing

This course will help web content editors and web developers quickly build the knowledge, skills, and practical experience needed to effectively support an organization's web accessibility compliance efforts.

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Web Accessibility for Developers

Web Accessibility for Developers is aimed primarily at web programmers. Learn how to develop accessible interactivity on the Web and gain expertise using WAI-ARIA, a W3C specification that enables optimal use of assistive technologies, like screen readers, when navigating the Web.

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Extend NZ: Teacher for Learning

Why else do we teach but for learning? Yet, there is often a disconnect between conventional, accepted teaching practices and research evidence about what enables learning. In this module, we will explore how we learn and what factors foster effective learning environments. As we extend our knowledge, we will consider strategies for designing significant learning experiences that are grounded in and informed by research principles that foster student learning in specific contexts.

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Extend NZ: Collaborator

Using technology tools to build intentional connections with others, to pose and solve problems collaboratively, and to strengthen independent thought is key to building digital capacity for learning and teaching. This module explores tools for online collaborations. It offers ways to create and extend professional and personal learning networks (PLNs) through collaborations within, across, and between disciplines.

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Extend NZ: Curator

This module takes you beyond curating for yourself and your personal interests. It explores ways to curate from your learners' perspective to create engaging, interactive, and open course materials. It discusses Creative Commons and Copyright, and explores strategies to search for, find, and evaluate Open Education Resources (OER).

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Extend NZ: Experimenter

Experimentation is key to extending our skills related to online and technology-enhanced learning. This module presents you with a series of challenges that invite you to experiment — to be curious and creative as you explore, and to reflect on new approaches to designing learning experiences.

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Extend NZ: Scholar

This module examines how we can use our classroom, our courses and/or our professional area of practice as a research lab, to

• explore how we might improve our teaching practice, and
• positively affect learner outcomes and satisfaction with the overall learning experience.

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Extend NZ: Technologist

As educators, we often find ourselves standing at the crossroads between innovative use of technology as trendy or as evidence-based practice. In this module, we will follow a series of steps which can be useful when selecting, using, and integrating technologies in a way that supports, facilitates, and enriches learning experiences.

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Regional Relations in Asia and the Pacific

Drawing upon frameworks from International Relations and the Social Sciences, this course provides basic information about, and analysis of, contemporary regional relationships, current affairs and societies in Asia and the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand.

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