The authoring platform of choice in many math-heavy disciplines is LaTeX. It produces typeset documents of excellent quality and handles formulas and mathematical diagrams extremely well. Unfortunately, it only produces PDF output. To produce accessible OER from LaTeX, the content must either be converted into a format that can produce both PDF output for printing…
Open Education Alberta (OEA) is grassroots collaborative initiative, launched in March 2020, supporting open publishing in Alberta. This poster shares information about OEA, its impact, and how to get involved.
Some people have said, āIf youāre doing it by yourself, itās not Universal Design for Learningā (UDL). However, one person can create materials to support instructors in making learning math more accessible.Ā Ā This poster highlights some Ā principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Ā and some of the resources Iāve created that can be shared on…
Is the quality of openly-licensed course material of particular concern for your program and for faculty at your institution? Would you like to learn more about how to pilot a tailored peer-review process for OER materials created or under consideration for adoption by faculty? This poster will elaborate on just such a pilot program. Iāll…
This poster provides a glimpse into the first ten years of OER and open pedagogy at the University of Saskatchewan (USask). Included are key milestones, lessons learned, what teams and tools have made the work possible, and the next steps for this work at USask.
