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

$345.00
Price: $345.00
Level: 
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 September 22, 2011
Half-Hour Workshop Orientation - Learn about moodle and Elluminate LIVE! Navigate the workshop space
1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
Viewing of Live Sessions available through September 22, 2011
Event Summary: 

Participants will:

  1.  Develop an understanding of Universal Design Principles for Online Learning.
  2. Understand how people with disabilities access the web and other formats.
  3. Develop an understanding of potential accessibility/usability issues that need to be considered in course design and instruction.
  4. Create more accessible/usable HTML-based course content.

In this hands-on workshop you will discover how principles of Universal Design can help you create course content that can be accessed and used by anyone, including people with disabilities. By the end of this workshop, participants will have a good understanding of Universal Design Principles for Online Learning, potential accessibility/usability issues that need to be considered in course design, and how to create more accessible/usable course content. As the workshop focus will be on web accessibility, familiarity with an HTML authoring tool is desired but not required.

Complete Workshop Description
Online Workshop Description: 
Universal design seeks to make online learning available and accessible for all types of learners. Universal design is not a template approach to instructional design; rather, the philosophy emphasizes learning objectives need to be flexible to meet diverse needs. Online faculty often find themselves overwhelmed or too busy with their day-to-day responsibilities to fully appreciate and integrate the various tools that can be used to make learning  equitable, flexible, and adaptable.  
Schedule: 
Workshop Opens - September 22nd. Please introduce yourself and begin reviewing materials
Workshop Orientation - Monday, September 27th at 2pm EST
Workshop Officially Closes - October 1st. All workshop materials will be available through September 22, 2011
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

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

Pricing Information: 
Price: $345 Each Sloan-C Member price: $195 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process) College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process) *Individual Premium Members receive 2 discounts with membership, Institutional and Premium Members receive 20 discounts, and College Pass Members receive 100 "free" seats in the entire 2010 Sloan-C Workshop series.
Presenter/Panelist Biographies
Biographies of Presenters/Panelists: 

Hadi Rangin works for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has over 20 years of experience in the area of accessibility of electronic information. Currently, Rangin supports on and off-campus web application developers for universal design to ensure that university resources are accessible to everyone. Rangin has developed several collaborative research groups to resolve accessibility issues with applications such as Blackboard/WebCT, D2L, SCT Banner, Ebsco Publishing, Ex Libris, Elsevier, and WebMail application such as MiraPoint, etc. Additionally he is working with the State of Illinois in defining the Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA) guidelines. Rangin is the primary architect of the Best Practices for Designing Course Content group for Instructional Designers.

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 is 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.

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.

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