by Tara Robertson | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog
A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of chatting with the folks from the Centre for Teaching and Learning at UBC about accessibility, universal design for learning and inclusion. I’m really happy with how this video turned out. I love that captioning is now...
by Tara Robertson | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog
Rajiv Jhangiani’s post Just how inclusive are “inclusive access” e-textbook programs? points out the problems with mandatory course fees for all students to lease access to online textbooks. This so-called “inclusive access” model has been piloted at...
by Tara Robertson | Jun 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
I was asked by Brady Yano to offer feedback on the awesome OpenCon Diversity, Equity and Inclusion report that will be publishing as a PDF document in the second week of July. I love that OpenCon is making their values explicit and transparent and connecting them to...
by Tara Robertson | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
I’m a huge fan of Liberating Structures. Despite the name being a little hokey they are great facilitation techniques that are designed to democratize participation and come up with different, new and better ideas. I’ve been dabbling in using these in...
by Tara Robertson | Nov 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
It was an honour to be invited to give the closing keynote at LITA Forum. I have never been asked to do a keynote, so I was equal parts terrified and excited. Here’s the text from my talk. I’d love to know what you think: @tararobertson on Twitter or email...
