Dear Colleagues:
Greetings from the OpenLab! Please see below for details on our upcoming Open Pedagogy event on Thursday, September 19. Please share this event with your networks. Refreshments will be served and part-time faculty are eligible for a stipend. You can RSVP by clicking this link and commenting on this post.
As always, feel free to contact us at OpenLab@citytech.cuny.edu with any questions/concerns.
We hope to see you next Thursday evening!
Best,
The OpenLab Community Team
OpenLab@citytech.cuny.edu
GENERAL EVENT INFO
Open Pedagogy: Access Beyond the ADA
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 4:30-6:00pm (Faculty Commons, N227)
*Refreshments will be served. (Thanks to the Faculty Commons for its generous support of this event!)
*Part-time faculty are eligible to receive a stipend for participation.
*Please RSVP by commenting on this post. Please share this invitation with your colleagues!
In frameworks of disability justice, the term accessibility conveys the degree to which a space, process, or concept is accessible, while access instead denotes the process by which accessibility is achieved. Join the OpenLab Team, City Tech faculty and staff, and CUNY colleagues at our next Open Pedagogy event, where we’ll be discussing different ways of thinking through access on the OpenLab and in digital pedagogy more broadly.
While the ADA governs the widespread adoption of reasonable accommodations for faculty, staff, and students in higher education, we’re curious what other forms of access are important to consider in open digital pedagogy. We’ll work to expand our understanding of “access” beyond compliance and discuss some practical skills and tools that may help augment a more inclusive pedagogy that anticipates and values difference in teaching and learning. We’ll consider the following questions:
- How can open digital pedagogy impact, augment, and enhance access?
- What are the limits of technology’s impact on access and accessibility?
- What barriers to access have you encountered as faculty and staff? What about the barriers you’ve experienced students facing?
- What resources have helped you to improve access in your academic courses and projects?
This event is the first of two in our Fall 2019 Open Pedagogy series on access in open digital pedagogy. We’re excited to continue our conversation around how “access”–practically and conceptually–can be integrated into teaching and learning on the OpenLab.
Save the date for our upcoming Open Pedagogy event, “Access Pedagogy,” where we will discuss some strategies for implementing access into teaching materials, assignments, and student engagement on November 7, 2019 from 4:30-6:00pm in N227 Faculty Commons
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*New York City College of Technology, CUNY is located at 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Enter the college on Jay Street (main entrance) and head up the stairs to your right (do not go down the few steps once you check in with security). When you reach the second floor, make a right
again and head down the corridor. The Faculty Commons (N227) is on the right at the end.
