Repost: Access for All: A Course Accessibility Workshop

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From our Partners, Instructional Technology, Click on the title or the Website link to register for an excellent event:

Access for All: A Course Accessibility Workshop

January 23rd 1-2pm

Online

Join Instructional Technology for an Accessibility Workshop to review Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, explore key technology resources to support all learners, and create an action plan to support accessibility in your courses.

Session Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will have created an action plan on next steps and resources needed to design accessible courses and create or remediate content for accessibility.

1. Recall the guiding principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

2. Identify a +1 UDL strategy for enhancing one of the following in your course: content, engagement, or assessment

3. Identify technology tools like Blackboard Ally for creating or remediating accessible content

4. Create an action plan that can support accessibility goals in your course, including appropriate technologies

This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Susan Biro, Manager, Online Learning, and Josh Abrams, Instructional Design Specialist.

Recommended resources

Participants may find it helpful to review the following about accessibility and course design prior to the workshop.

Watch: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (4:42) Humber Innovative Learning. (2019, June 12). Universal design for learning in higher education [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwA8cQ2xA9o

Listen: King, T. (Host). (2021, August 9). An essential and imperative of teaching: Diversity, equity, and inclusion (No. 16). [Audio podcast episode]. In Faculty Focus Live.

Read: Flaherty, C. (2023, May 10). Diversifying course materials: A how-to guide. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2023/05/10/diversifying-course-materials-how-guide#

Read: Perez, L. (May/June 2015). From accommodations to accessibility: Creating learning environments that work for all. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 50, no. 3. (5 min). Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/4/from-accommodations-to-accessibility-creating-learning-environments-that-work-for-all. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

To RSVP for this workshop, please click here, then click on “Going virtually” and be sure to add the event to your calendar!