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Addressing equity and access while engaging students through ActiveFlex

Many traditional brick-and-mortar universities were seeking different opportunities to provide diverse delivery options for students to attend classes. Enter HyFlex. Brian Beatty defines HyFlex courses as those that “enable a flexible participation policy for students whereby students may choose to attend face-to-face synchronous class sessions or complete course learning activities online without physically attending class.” […]

Global report of accessibility in PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoints and images in academic content

The number of PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoints and images in academic courses is staggering. Based on 2020-21 global data (across 5.9 million courses), there is an average of 15 PDFs, nine Word documents, five PowerPoint presentations, and 34 images per course. Cumulatively, that’s over 375.6 million content items that could cause barriers for students! Naturally, certain […]

Avoid fatal mistakes: use data to drive your website performance

Before you update your website, there are key data elements you should research before creating content, optimizing content or writing any code. This session will show you how to avoid several critical flaws that many websites suffer from, including: Investing time and resources into a site that doesn’t support institutional strategies. Losing large amounts of […]