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Create, Remediate & Assess STEM Based Content with Equatio

CSUN 2024

Friday March 22nd, 2024

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Hi There!

Rachel Kruzel

Higher Education Specialist

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Email: r.kruzel@texthelp.com

Phone: 651-245-3128

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Today’s Agenda

Teaching & learning today

Instructor support

Staff support

Student/learner support

Questions

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Teaching and learning have changed a lot

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Landscape

  • Online/hybrid class preference
  • Digital accessibility initiatives
  • Historical lack of attention paid to making STEM content accessible
  • Students with disabilities and disclosure
  • Available tools to create digital STEM content

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Challenges with STEM Creation

  • Making it digital
  • Easy to create
  • Making it accessible
  • Omnipresent/�ubiquitous

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  • Buy-in/use
  • Volume/amount
  • Content complexities
  • Professional experience level

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Ability and Needs

  • Faculty or Staff:
    • Create content from inception
    • Remediate post-production materials
    • Share content with learners
  • Learner:
    • Engagement with materials
    • Creation of STEM content

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Integration in education is key

For education to truly be inclusive and equitable, tools should be available for all learners in all environments, no matter the place or assignment given.

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Equatio

Make math digital

Equatio allows you to create equations, formulas, and more, digitally. Helping to make math and STEM classes more accessible and engaging for every student.

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Creating new and remediating post-production content by instructors

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Create New Accessible STEM Based Content

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  • Each math insert created by Equatio carries with it Alt Text & MathML.
  • Alt Text is supported by collaborative platforms such as Google, Microsoft.
  • Commonly used LMS providers also support Alt Text.

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Remediate Historical Content�

  • Use the Screenshot Reader to pull a box around math & STEM to hear the math played aloud.
  • Then copy the LaTeX & bring it into Equatio to convert it into accessible math.

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Remediation of post-production content with focus towards accessibility by staff

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Staff Remediation of STEM Based Course Content�

  • Easy-to-use and time saving tool removes need for expertise when remediating historical content.
  • Removes need to re-create content from ground up.
  • Each math insert created by Equatio carries with it Alt Text & MathML.

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Working Towards Accessibility�

  • Digital accessibility is everyone’s responsibility on campus.
  • By equipping content creators across campus, everyone does their part to increase accessibility for either brand new content created or content needing remediation.
  • Move away from reactive remediation over time to proactive creation.

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Access to more accessible content by students

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Learner Access to More Accessible STEM Content�

  • Reads STEM based content, formulas and equations out loud.
  • Create STEM content digitally based on preference of creation method.
  • Increase in independence and through the reduction in need for peer proctors for testing.

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Accessing STEM Based Content More Equitably�

  • Access to innovative, easy-to-use STEM tool to reach and engage with STEM based content.
  • UDL voice and choice in method and ways students engage and create STEM content in response during assignments and assessments.

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Let’s Explore Equatio!�

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Questions�

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Let’s Connect!

Rachel Kruzel

Higher Education Specialist

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Email: r.kruzel@texthelp.com

Phone: 651-245-3128