If your department budget is already running
low, EASI wants
to make it possible for you to attend this valuable 4-part
webinar series on
LMS systems
We have freed up scholarships for those
unable to get
financing for this series. Read about the series below, and you
can apply for a
scholarship from:
http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm
Accessibility of LMS:
Content, Creation and Delivery (a
4-part webinar series)
–Thursdays April 20, 27,
May 4 and 11
Times: 11 Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Series
moderators: Hadi Rangin from the University of Washington and
Norm Coombs from
EASI
Canvas Thursday
April 20
Thursday April
27
Blackboard
Thursday May 4
Moodle Thursday
May 11
While we all
recognize the need to make Learning Management Systems
accessible for students
with disabilities as required by federal and state
legislation, it is equally
important to make them accessible for both staff and faculty
with disabilities.
Course content is usually created by content experts who may
know very little
about designing their content to be accessible and who become
overwhelmed with
this new obligation. Learning Management Systems must find
ways –to help these
faculty. Presenters will talk both about the accessibility
features in their
system and share what is being done to help non-technical
faculty create
accessible content. Besides making PDF, Word and HTML
documents accessible,
Faculty will need tools to assist them in providing captions
for videos,
transcriptions for audio and video description of video
action.
We are beginning to realize that an LMS can
and should go
beyond making its
structure and
interaction accessible. Some LMS systems are looking for ways to
help their
faculty content providers create content that is accessible. We
used to think a
safe automobile was a technical mechanical issue. Now car makers
are building
features into their cars to assist the driver to drive more
safely. The smart
car is already becoming a reality. Can we also have a smart LMS?