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Web Accessibility for Online Learning: A How-To Guide for Creating Accessible Content

$345.00
Price: $345.00

Signups closed for this Sloan-C Online Workshop

Date and Time of the Event: 
April 21, 2010 - April 29, 2010
Recommended for: 
Intermediate - Level 2
Key Online Workshop Information
Minimum Estimated Time Commitment: 
~ 5 - 10 hours/week
Resources Provided in Workshop: 
Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online through April 30, 2011
Wednesday, April 21 [2pm - 3pm ET]: Workshop Kickoff - Participants will have the opportunity to meet the workshop facilitators, learn about Moodle and Talking Communities, a web conferencing platform designed to promote accessibility to all users.
Two additional 1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
Synchronous Session Three: Final Project Presentations and Workshop Wrap-Up Discussion - Friday, April 30th [2pm – 3pm ET]
Workshop Officially Closes - April 30th. All workshop materials will be available through April 30, 2011
Event Summary: 

Enrollment in this workshop is limited to 30 participants.

Participants should plan on a 1 hour per day time commitment.

Participants will:

  • Develop an understanding of Universal Design Principles for Online Learning
  • Understand how people with disabilities access the web and other formats
  • Develop an understanding of potential accessibility/usability issues that need to be considered in course design
  • Create more accessible/usable HTML-based course content
  • Create more accessible/usable Microsoft Word documents
Complete Workshop Description
Online Workshop Description: 
Discover how principles of universal design can help you create course content that can be accessed and used by anyone, including people with disabilities. Daily focused group discussion will help participants gain a better understanding of key design problems, ideas, and potential solutions. This workshop will host 3 live, synchronous sessions (on days 1, 6, and 10) via an accessible web conferencing application called Talking Communities (TC).
Schedule: 
Workshop Opens - April 21st. Please introduce yourself and begin reviewing materials
Synchronous Session One: Introductions and Orientation - Wednesday, April 21st [2pm - 3pm ET]
Synchronous Session Two: Graphics and Charts/introducing the workshop assignment – Monday, April 26th [2pm – 3pm ET]
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Certificate.

Pricing Information: 
Price: $345 Enrollment limited to 30 participants.
Presenter/Panelist Biographies
Biographies of Presenters/Panelists: 

Marc Thompson is an instructional designer at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He has taught for 20 years and has 5 years of experience teaching online courses and providing online teaching instruction. In addition to his teaching experience, he has a background in web design, instructional media, and web-based learning platforms. He is the accessibility liaison for the Division of Academic Outreach at the University of Illinois and has presented at a number of workshops and conferences on topics related to the creation of accessible course content and the accessibility of web conferencing systems. He is one of the principal architects of the Best Practices for Designing Course Content accessibility research group.

Norm Coombs serves as professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he continues to teach distance learning courses in history, and he the CEO of EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) which has a mission to help colleges, libraries and other institutions make their computer and information systems fully accessible to people with disabilities using adaptive technology. EASI is also a core activity of the TLT Group, the Teaching, Learning and Technology affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education. He is the principal investigator for EASI's third dissemination grant from the National Science Foundation as well as partnering on several other grant projects. He actively consults, speaks, and publishes on both distance learning and adaptive technologies.

Hadi Rangin works for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Web Design and Accessibility Specialist and has over 20 years of experience in the area of accessibility of electronic information. Currently, his primary responsibility is to support on and off-campus web application developers for universal design to ensure that university resources are accessible to everyone including people with disabilities. Rangin has developed several collaborative research groups to improve accessibility with applications such as Blackboard/WebCT, Desire2Learn, Ebsco Publishing, Ex Libris, Elsevier, Elluminate, and etc. He worked with the State of Illinois in defining the Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA) guidelines. He is also an active member of DHTML Style Guide Working Group and Web Best Practices Group. Rangin is the primary architect of the Best Practices for Designing Course Content group for Instructional Designers.

 

Cancellation Policy: 
If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop/seminar and are unable to attend, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.