Writing Alt Text for STEM Images Accessible Teaching Practices Alternative text, also known as alt text, is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image in digital content. It is a short textual description, usually containing the essential information for...
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David Trend’s Journey to Digital Accessibility
From Compliance to Equity: Redefining Accessibility in the Classroom David Trend's Journey to Accessible Teaching When David Trend, a professor at UCI's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, first heard the term “Digital Accessibility,” he wasn’t sure how it connected to...
Meet the DASH Team
Bridging Technology and Accessibility Meet Alyas Thomas When you meet Alyas Thomas, a junior majoring in software engineering at UC Irvine, you immediately sense his passion for using technology to make a difference. Alyas first encountered the concept of digital...
High Stakes Assessments vs. Reflective Journaling
Jordan C. Grasso, School of Social Ecology Professors across disciplines often rely on high-stakes summative assessments in multiple-choice or short-answer exams or lengthy final papers. However, these assessments negatively impact students’ ability to learn...
Critical Latinx Pedagogy: Empowering Latinx Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution
Julybeth Murillo, School of Social Sciences Hispanic Serving Institutions Aguilar- Smith states that a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) is a “public and private 2- and 4-year postsecondary institution in which at least a quarter of the institution’s full-time...
Gamification and the Classroom: A Short Review
Christopher Chacon, School of Humanities In this short review, I will consider the role student motivation plays in the effectiveness of gamification as well as the role gamification plays in enhancing student participation and knowledge retention. I will also...
Implementing Active Learning in Large-Enrollment Courses
Claire Freimark, School of Biological Sciences Introductory undergraduate science courses can be intimidating. Large class sizes, long lectures, and cumulative exams can lead to high stress levels, poor student attitudes, and low retention rates in STEM majors. Many...
Covid-19, Educational Inequity, and Student Outcomes
Alisson Rowland, School of Social Sciences The US’s poor welfare infrastructure, combined with the devastation of Covid-19, has perpetuated racist educational inequities (Kyeremateng, Oguda, Asemota 2022; Johnson-Agbakwu et al. 2022). Sonya Douglass Horsford,...
Implementing Undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs) in College Classrooms: A Win-Win-Win-Win!
Karma Rose Zavita, School of Social Ecology Big universities are the most likely to have large lecture-style classes and as a result of the labor involved in managing these courses, there has been an increase reliance on the use of Teaching Assistants (TA’s). One...
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