CAST & ISKME Partner to Make OERs More Inclusive, Effective

CAST announces a new partnership with the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)— the organization that manages OER Commons, the world’s leading OER repository—to improve the availability and accessibility of OERs. Despite their promise, many OERs have remained inaccessible for students with disabilities and other learning differences. Static, inflexible formats such as PDF allow only marginal access via assistive technologies. The ability to customize and adapt these resources is rarely built in, and it is difficult for institutions to retrofit and convert digital objects into an accessible form. http://www.cast.org/whats-new/news/2019/cast-iskme-partnership-oer-commons-open-authoring-system.html#.XIrd_LcZ4d4