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<div class="">I have never used Connect. I have to make assumptions about its use from your email.</div>
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<div class="">What are McGraw-Hill's selling points with Connect? If they are pushing the "collaboration", "interactive" or "active learning", then these are objective features to compare with their offered alternatives. If they claim it to be just another
delivery platform of text and your faculty are not requiring that students use these add-ons, then your case might be weaker. </div>
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<div class="">On 2016 Feb 09, at 16:48, Nast, Joseph M <<a href="mailto:Joseph.M.Nast@lonestar.edu" class="">Joseph.M.Nast@lonestar.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;" class="">FYI I’m still working with McGraw-Hill about the lack of accessibility for their Connect online interactive content. Emails continue to go back and forth. It’s late and I need someone to proofread\edit the following excerpt
for me before I pull the trigger and hit the “Reply All” button. Thanks!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;" class="">“<b class="">Why alternative formats don’t work as equitable substitutes for interactive online content like Connect and LearnSmart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Providing alternative formats (e.g. accessible\searchable
PDF, .DOCX, audio, Braille) for a textbook is equitable because on the whole, textbooks represent a kind of passive learning experience. Students learn by simply reading (or in this case listening to) the material.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;" class="">However, the very nature of Connect and LearnSmart’s content is very different. Like a printed workbook, the structure of the material itself demands active student participation. Furthermore, these types of programs
usually provide automated feedback to the student. The overall effect creates a dynamic, collaborative learning experience that’s quite unlike passively reading (or listening to) a textbook. This level of interactivity is nearly impossible to replicate in
another format so that the student who “sees” using JAWS retains all the same educational benefits afforded to those who don’t.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;" class="">Simply put,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">a searchable PDF or Word format</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the text found in Connect’s LearnSmart activities<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">cannot
begin to satisfy federal requirements</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">to provide equal access<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>to the course material in the same way a photograph of a sandwich cannot satisfy the same
nutritional needs provided by an actual sandwich.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;" class="">Too snarky? Thanks!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt;" class=""><a href="mailto:joseph.m.nast@lonestar.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;" class="">Joseph M. Nast</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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