Starting July 6, EASI is presenting its month-long course for July:
Barrier-free E-learning. It is intended primarily for faculty teaching
online wanting to know the easiest way to make their content accessible for
students with disabilities. Second, it will provide useful tools and
insights for online course system managers, instructional design staff,
information technology staff, academic administrators and college ADA
compliance officers. Making online course content can be done mainly using
the authoring tools faculty already use in their daily work.
Anyone registering for this July course will receive a free handbook on
accessible e-learning which is 30 plus pages in length. You can view its
table of contents online at:
http://easi.cc/zip/elearning-toc.htm
Read the full syllabus and register online at:
http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
Course registration is $350 with a $70 discount for students. Overseas
participants and EASI Annual Webinar members.
Course Description
Barrier-free E-learning has been significantly updated and also enriched
with new multimedia. The course now is based on the realization that course
content authors, faculty and instructional designers, are placing that
content inside a courseware or learning management system. Most of the Web
accessibility issues relate to that interface, and only a few accessibility
features are relevant to the actual course content. The revisions focus on
a limited set of accessibility issues and also stress how to achieve
accessibility using familiar software that designers are already using.
University, business and public schools all are adopting one or more forms
of online learning technologies for delivering education and training.
Online learning is simultaneously praised and roundly condemned. In any
case, it is sweeping across America and into other countries. One of the
results of the rapidity of this explosive growth is that, until recently,
little attention has been paid to making these technologies accessible to
people with various disabilities. Modern adaptive computer technology has
the potential to provide the most level learning space in history for these
students. However, the wrong technology choices may erect new and needless
barriers to the full inclusion of these students.
The information in Barrier-free E-learning will be useful for
administrators, instructional technology staff, instructional design staff
and for any faculty who post content for their courses whether those are
distance learning courses or merely online components of traditional campus
classes.
Barrier-free E-learning course participants will leave the course with a
practical tool that will empower them to influence the accessibility of
e-learning at their institution.
This month-long course will be taught by Professor Norman Coombs, a leader
in e-learning for more than a decade, winner of Zenith's Master of
Innovation award and New York State's CASE Teacher of the Year award in
1990 both for his work in the use of this technology in innovative ways to
provide an inclusive educational setting. Coombs estimates that he has
taught some 5,000 students in more than 40 countries.
The course is month-long and is entirely taught over the Internet. Content
is available 24 hours a day. The 10 lessons each have a short set of
questions to submit. However, the course is run on a pass/fail basis and
students will need to submit all assignments to earn the class completion
documentation.
Week 1:
Lesson 1: Introduction to E-learning Systems
Lesson 2: What is Accessibility and is That Enough?
Week 2:
Lesson 3: Tips for Faculty and Content Providers
Lesson 4: Creating Content Using Microsoft Word
Lesson 5: PowerPoint and Accessibility
Week 3:
Lesson 6: Creating Accessible PDF Documents
Lesson 7: Authoring With Dreamweaver and Creating Multimedia
Lesson 8: Checking for Accessibility
Week 4:
Lesson 9: Beyond Online Delivery
Lesson 10: Planning and Policy
Read more and register online at:
http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
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Norman Coombs [log in to unmask]
CEO EASI Equal Access to Software and Information
phone (949) 855-4852 (NOTE pacific time zone)
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