Making Your Courses Accessible: Best Practices For Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment
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Presentation given at eLearning Consortium of Colorado conference, April 2013
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Making Your Courses Accessible: Best Practices For Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment
- 1. Making Your Courses Accessible: Best Practices For Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Metropolitan State University of Denver ekleinfe@msudenver.edu
- 2. What leads to “Accessibility Block”? Surveyed 22 FT faculty and 29 affiliates (51 total)
- 3. Foundations • Doesn’t matter if course is f2f, online, or hybrid • You don’t have to do everything equally well • You don’t have to do it alone • You don’t have to memorize ADA legislation
- 4. build it into your course planning.
- 5. Accommodate for disability Plan for inclusivity
- 6. Build inclusivity into your course planning: • Order textbooks early so large format or braille conversions can be made • Avoid using PDFs and poor photocopies • Choose to use audio/visuals with transcripts • Consider how students with different learning styles, physical abilities, and visible and invisible disabilities will interact with material and demonstrate their understanding to you
- 7. No, actually. Including all learners is part of being an effective teacher.
- 8. Results • Safer environment – fewer ―scary‖ students coming to office hours because they couldn’t ―share‖ in the experience in class • It is pedagogically sound to make everything accessible • Faculty more confident because fear of grievances, awkwardness, etc. is reduced • Reduces the fear and awkwardness of disability and ―difference‖ for students and faculty
- 9. Origin of Universal Design
- 10. How does the learning environment present barriers to diverse learners? Listening Timed Tests Manipulating Note taking Deadlines Objects Speaking Oral Reports Mobility Writing Computer Transportation Keyboarding Use Interacting with Reading Sitting Others Attendance Image: www.saltywaffle.com
- 11. What is UDL? • ―UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials and assessments that work for everyone—not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.‖ (CAST website)
- 12. ACCESSIBILITY in the broadest sense.
- 13. UDL Best Practices • Provide multiple ways for students to interact with material • Provide multiple ways for students to demonstrate understanding • Provide multiple means of giving students feedback
- 14. 21st-Century Teaching and Learning • Less about content, more about process • Turn novice learners into expert learners by ▫ Empowering students to articulate what they need ▫ Building in opportunities for meta-cognitive reflection
- 15. Build in Common Accommodations • Extensions on assignments • Notetaker • Attendance
- 16. • What is another way I can present • Visual this concept? • Audio • What is another way students can • Kinesthetic demonstrate their understanding? • Individual • What is another way I could give students feedback on this? • Group
- 17. Resources Accessible File Formats. http://tinyurl.com/bvfgbt6 CAST. http://www.cast.org/udl/ National Center on Universal Design for Learning. http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/whatisudl