Accessibility is the degree to which a document, website, product, service, or environment is usable to any given user, including those with a disability. For example, if a building on campus has a ...

The instructional materials used in K-12 science classes provide the basis for what students can learn and what teachers should teach. The process used to select those materials is critical to ...

To that end, we have created an OER library of reviewed materials to help support districts. We also have partnered with the Washington State School Directors’ Association (WSSDA) to update sample ...

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is releasing a new online toolkit, From Print to Digital: Guide to Quality Instructional Materials. Developed in collaboration with state ...

Teachers are more likely to be using high-quality curriculum materials than they were five years ago. But many are still using older materials or other supplements, too, a new survey shows. In fact, ...

Identify what important visual content will need to be described audibly (e.g. graphs, equations, images, etc.) for individuals with vision impairments. Important on-screen text should also be ...

I enjoyed reading your recent discussion with Alex Baron, “How Much Autonomy Should Teachers Have Over Instructional Materials? ” In particular, I was struck by your skepticism about whether ...

Craig Brock teaches high school science in Amarillo, Texas, where his freshman biology students are currently learning about the parts of a cell. But since many of them are refugee children who have ...

There is a body in the Department of Education called the Instructional Materials Council Secretariat (IMCS). According to its website, it “provides technical assistance to the Instructional Materials ...

The goal of the Committee on Developing the Capacity for Selecting Effective Instructional Materials (''the Committee") was to produce a tested standards-based instrument that would be helpful to ...