Imagine you’re participating in a seminar and need to finish the assigned readings to prepare for the seminar discussion. You don’t have access to a computer and need to finish the readings on your phone.
You will need to read the page called “Quick Guide to OER for Teaching & Learning” on the OER program site. Using a mobile device, please go to the site, navigate to the page, scroll through, and read some of the content.
In a comment on this post, describe your experience navigating to these pages. Was it easy? Did you encounter any access or ease of use barriers? What would it be like completing the reading on your phone?
I use a table of contents and breadcrumbs to help all students navigate on my websites
I actually found the mobile interface surprisingly good. All the openlab pages were easy to read and navigate. The only issue I had was reading the pdf files and that was mostly because I couldn’t rotate them on my phone (web is just always better formated though).
I clicked on “readings” menu and found a blank page. I then went to the correct page and found the reading. Also, the menu is too long.
It was difficult to access these resources because they were listed on the assignment page but they weren’t directly linked to the individual readings. Instead, there was a general link to the seminar site page. That meant I had to try to remember the listed readings and find them in the site. By the time I found and read one, I had to navigate all the way back to the original page in order to remember the name of the next one and then navigate through the site again to look for it.
It seems fine though too small for me. It opened a pdf document which is way too much on my phone.
I had no problem with the reading.
I find it easy to navigate. However, the Teaching resource page is not a very good example of sharing a link to another resource.
-Read “this” for the next semester.