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2023 AT SHAREcase conference recap

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In June 2023, approximately 130 teaching and learning professionals gathered at the AT SHAREcase. During 2 days of presentations and discussion they explored the conference theme: expanding collaboration across diverse work, school, and social environments: the evolving role of ATs/IDs.

Along with colleagues across the UMN system, many staff members in ATSS and AT Tools presented at the conference. This post contains descriptions and resources from their sessions.

Make My Course Accessible: A cooperative pilot project

In partnership with colleges and departments across the UMN system, Academic Technology Support Services (ATSS) started offering the Make My Course Accessible Initiative. This session highlights many details we learned about the process and showcases Faculty from the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences CFANS), and Psychology department on how the initiative helped to advance accessibility in Canvas course content that benefits students and aligns with the University’s Digital Accessibility Policy. Learn how you can enroll your college to become a partner, and how you can help advance the accessibility initiative going forward.

View the Presentation slides.

ATSS online course development model: accessibility and collaborations

The Academic Technology Support Services team shares the newly formalized online course development model that they use with new/incoming course design projects. Accessibility and collaboration are built into the model. In this session, the team engages the UMN academic technology community to discuss how the model will work in the context of collaborative projects.

Accessibility: Beyond Captioning and UDOIT - An Overview (Part 1)

Angela M. Carter joins ATSS to give an overview of the conceptual framework from the Teaching for Access and Inclusion (TAI) program (for a refresher, watch the ATiCoP recording from April 2022 starting at 44:33). This session focuses on how those of us in support roles can utilize the grounding principles of TAI when working with faculty on course development. Principles include but are not limited to: expanding access; fostering belonging; embracing structured flexibility; and incorporating feedback. A follow-up session builds on these topics and allows participants to practice applying the TAI principles to academic technology-related case studies.

Accessibility: Beyond Captioning and UDOIT - Case Studies (Part 2)

Working with composite case studies inspired by real-life scenarios, participants apply the concepts and principles presented in Accessibility: Beyond Captioning and UDOIT - An Overview (Part 1). Participants are encouraged to consider the different ways they can incorporate Teaching with Access and Inclusion concepts into their course consultations with instructors, looking beyond technical digital accessibility considerations, such as captioning and running UDOIT, and moving towards a more inclusive pedagogy by thinking about course policies and practices.

View the Presentation slides.

Learning Analytics from the Student Perspective: CSOM Capstone

In early 2023, the Academic Technology Services team sponsored a capstone project with the Carlson School of Management for the undergraduate Information and Decision Sciences Department. The capstone project, called Learning Analytics: The Student Perspective, offered a unique opportunity to have students engage their peers on the topic of learning analytics and then submit recommendations based on their findings. Three teams of students researched learning analytics trends in higher education, conducted surveys and interviews with their peers about their knowledge and perspectives on learning analytics, and made recommendations about the next steps. We share these findings and explain how we’re using them to jumpstart a number of learning analytics initiatives- an important milestone for UMN.

The Inclusive, Collaborative Advisory Committee: Lessons Learned in Tool Adoption in a Decentralized Environment

The University’s DiaLOG group values a transparent, collaborative process to investigate functional gaps in our learning tools ecosystem in order to meet the challenge of competing interests vying for representation in a large decentralized university. In 2021, this process led to the purchase of FeedbackFruits and the creation of a diverse Implementation Advisory Committee of faculty and staff. Learn about our efforts to facilitate system-wide engagement in a consistent, inclusive implementation process that supports teaching and learning across the university.

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