With all of our initiatives, we take a multi-prong approach to providing professional learning opportunities.
Workshop (In-Person)
Each summer since 2018, the EMC has offered a week-long, in-person track at our Pacific Region Learning Summit. Participants engage for approximately 30 hours in activities designed so they can apply UDL and Accessibility to their own course.
Beyond Accessibility Toward Inclusivity: Making Learning Available to As Many as Possible Track Workshop Materials have been archived as a resource for others to use.
Self-Paced Courses/Training
- Accessibility Training through Lynda.com - online learning subscription to self-paced training provided by the University of Hawai'i available to full-time faculty and staff
- Accessibility of eLearning - free, self-paced course by OpenLearn University
- Accessibility: Designing and Teaching Courses for All Learners (OpenSUNY) - originally offered as a free, facilitated course; these materials are archived as a self-paced resource
- Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education (University of Colorado) - free, facilitated course in Coursera offered periodically
- Online Accessibility Resource Documents (California Community Online Ed) - free self-guided tutorials, workshop resources, webinars on accessibility in online education
Resources
- Course-In-a-Nutshell - archived five day blog posts sent to Leeward CC as an introduction to accessibility; these materials are archived as a self-paced resource
- How “Open Educational Practices” Support Student-Centered Course Design and Accessibility (Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources) - webinar on how OER adoption can support accessibility of instructional materials
- Inclusive PDFs by Design (National Center on Accessible Educational Materials) - webinar on how to create accessible PDFs
[screencast] [presentation] [Transcript] [Transcript with Images]
Brief overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how Web Accessibility fits into the overall UDL framework. Basic Web Accessibility for text and images.
Session objectives:
- Describe the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.
- Apply web accessibility guidelines for digital text to revise one of your course modules.
- Apply web accessibility guidelines for images to revise one of your course modules.
- Use free web accessibility checkers to check your course module.
- Find a close-captioned YouTube video to use in your course.
Previously presented at:
- UH System 5-0 Training (Summer 2018)
- Kapiolani CC (Oct 2018)
- Leeward CC Week of Welcome (Jan 2019)
- Teaching Colleges and Community (TCC) Online Conference (April 2019)
- Leeward CC Week of Welcome (Aug 2019)