From our Partners, Instructional Technology, Click on the title or the Website link to register for an excellent event:
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.
- Recall the guiding principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Identify a +1 UDL strategy for enhancing one of the following in your course: content, engagement, or assessment
- Identify technology tools like Blackboard Ally for creating or remediating accessible content
- 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.
