By Norman Coombs
ISBN-10: 0470499044
ISBN-13: 9780470499047
Making on-line educating Accessible bargains on-line academics, educational designers, and content material builders a complete source for designing on-line classes and providing path content material that's available for all scholars together with people with visible and audio disabilities.
Grounded within the theories of learner-centered educating and winning direction layout, Making on-line instructing Accessible outlines the main laws, judgements, and guidance that govern on-line studying. The e-book additionally demystifies assistive applied sciences and comprises step by step suggestions for developing available on-line content material utilizing well known courses like Microsoft place of work and Adobe Acrobat, in addition to multimedia tools.
Including a wealth of beneficial assistance and proposals for successfully speaking with disabled scholars, the publication includes functional recommendation on paying for available path administration structures, constructing options for inaccessibility concerns, and growing education fabrics for school and employees to make on-line studying really accessible.
"This useful how-to e-book is a serious software for all tutorial designers and college who educate on-line. Coombs' decades as a pioneer of on-line educating express in his deep wisdom of the rules that could permit the reader to use those classes to any studying administration process (LMS)."
—Sally M. Johnstone, provost and vice chairman educational affairs, Winona country college, Minnesota; former govt director of WCET at WICHE
"As an increasing number of of our social lives grow to be mediated by means of know-how, on-line accessibility is a primary correct, now not a luxurious. This e-book is a must-read for an individual serious about maximizing entry to learning."
—Richard N. Katz, former vice chairman and founding director, EDUCAUSE middle for utilized Research
"This necessary ebook displays Coombs' exact event and dedication to the easiest educating, studying, and accessibility innovations for all types of scholars and teachers."
—Steven W. Gilbert, founder and president, The TLT Group-Teaching, studying, and know-how Group
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Extra info for Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning)
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This system should also be available to meet the needs of online students as well. Second, accessible versions of online course content must be provided in a timely manner as well. This means posting content in an accessible format rather than retrofitting it later. One place where this may be relevant is in providing transcriptions for audio and captions for video. The other place it may be relevant is if in some course, accessibility required making and delivering hard-copy Braille or tactile graphics for a student with a disability.
Someone with a motor impairment may have little trouble keeping up, but be unable to actively participate, because it takes extra time to respond. Users of screen readers frequently find text chat inaccessible because of either the chat window’s technology or the screen reader’s limitations. Because of the different difficulties experienced by students with disabilities, the teacher may want to consider other ways to promote student interaction. Whiteboard LMSs frequently include a whiteboard which is normally used in a real-time setting like text chat.
Automatically Update does not mean that all text with that style will be updated when you make changes to the style (this is a common misconception). In fact, that behavior happens by default. 7 Adding a Style to Quick Styles. Update changes the style whenever you reformat any text that is tagged with that style. Think long and hard before selecting this option, as it often has unexpected repercussions. 5. 8. SELECTING STYLE ATTRIBUTES TO ENHANCE ACCESSIBILITY In talking about people with disabilities, there is a tendency to oversimplify.
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