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"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be
dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and
understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again."  Og Mandino

>
>EASI's Online Course: Barrier-free E-learning Starts Feb. 3 for a Month.
>Registration and a syllabus are at: http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
>There is also a link to a lesson sample.
>
> Course Instructor
> Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
>CEO EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
>
>The course is taught over the Internet using both e-mail and the Web.  All
>lessons are asynchronous meaning no one has to be connected at any specific
>time.  Learn from anywhere and at any time.
>
>Everyone who completes the course will receive an EASI certificate of
> completion. Those requesting it will receive 3 continuing education units
> for doing the course work.. Finally, this course is an optional course for
> those working for the EASI/USM Certificate In accessible Information
> Technology.
>
> Course Description
>
> University, business and public schools all are adopting one or more forms
> of distance learning type technologies for delivering education and
> training. Sometimes this actual distance learning and sometimes it is part
> of campus courses. It 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 little
> attention has been paid to making these technologies accessible to people
> with various disabilities. Modern adaptive computer technology has the
> potential to make these technologies more accessible to such students than
> any previous form of education. However, the wrong technology choices mayy
> erect new and needless barriers to the full inclusion of these students in
> their ability to use of e-learning systems.
> 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 tradtional campus
> classes. Every participant will complete a course project that will have
> practical use at their institution. This will be a PowerPoint presentation
> aimed at some relevant group on their campus who could benefit from some
> portion of this course content. Participants will leave the course with a
> practical tool to assist them in influencing the accessibility of
> e-learning where they work. They will also receive a comprehensive
> handbook on accessible e-learning that they can share with colleagues.
>
> 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 4,000 students in more than 40 countries.
>
>The course includes new material on the accessibility features of
>courseware systems including WebCT, E-College and Blackboard.
>
> Course lessons and Assignments
> Lesson 1 Introduction
> Part 1 Types of E-learning technologies
> Part 2 Advantages and disadvantages of e-learning for students with
> disabilities
> Part 3 Disability-related legislation and e-learning
> Lesson 2 Adaptive technology interfaces
> Part 1 Alternative output technologies
> Part 2 Alternative input technologies
> Part 3 Interfacing adaptive technology and courseware
> Lesson 3 accessible web design
> Part 1 Web Access Initiative guidelines
> Part 2 Section 508 standards
> Part 3 Good web design is half of accessible design
> Lesson 4 Guest presenters share experiences and information
> Part 1 Presentations from several e-learning programs
> Part 2 Presentations by developers of existing e-learning guidelines
> Part 3 Presentations by designers of e-learning systems
> Lesson 5 Tips for faculty and content providers
> Part 1 Coombs ten tips for e-learning
> Part 2 Designing content to increase accessibility for all
> Part 3 Good teaching and clear communication is half of accessibility
> Lesson 6 accessible Internet Multimedia (audio, video, PowerPoint and
>more)
> Part 1 Using media redundantly
> Part 2 SMIL! you're on the Internet (providing captions)
> Part 3 When to outsource captioning and transcribing activities
> Lesson 7 Beyond the online delivery of e-learning
> Part 1 Access for blind users to drawings, diagrams and charts
> Part 2 Access for blind users to technical texts
> Part 3 When to outsource technical text and graphic production
> Lesson 8 System-wide planning and designing for access
> Part 1 Campus-wide responsibility
> Part 2 Writing a campus accessibility policy
> Part 3 Developing a systematic funding plan
> Part 4 Networking on and off campus
>
> EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is a non-profit
> organization, and our mission is to make information technologies more
> accessible to users with disabilities.
>
>
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>EASI February Courses:
>Barrier         -free E-learning
>Accessible Internet Multimedia
>http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
>
>
>                Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
>CEO EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
>http://www.rit.edu/~easi
>http://easi-elearn.org
>