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Eight Specific Steps Faculty Can Take for Making Your Courses Accessible
Make textbook decisions as early as possible and before any established campus deadline for textbook adoptions. Request an electronic version and/or additional desk copy of your textbooks. Use publishers who offer electronic copies. Caption all videos used for instruction and provide transcripts for audio-only materials. Provide students with alternative methods to receive lecture materials, including posting lecture notes online, providing transcripts, etc. Be open to communicating with students about their learning styles and using multiple instructional methods to address their needs....
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Top Ten Strategies for Designing Courses
Plan ahead! Excellence happens by design, and the more time invested in structuring the course and preparing for the lessons, the better. Consider what prerequisites are essential for student success. Implement Universal Design for Learning into your course structure. UDL helps remove learning barriers for all students. Ensure that all directions, guidelines, policies, grading criteria, readings, and resources are accessible and available to students in more than a single place and format. Understand your students, your target audience. Be aware of special needs, special interests,...
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Top Ten Suggestions for Ensuring Equal Academic Opportunities
Make textbook decisions as early as possible but certainly prior to the required campus book adoption date. Allow students to choose their seat locations and change these locations if necessary. Prepare and distribute instructional materials and lecture outline--including posting these materials in an accessible format online--prior to the class in order to facilitate learning. Show only videos that have been closed-captioned. Ensure inclusiveness in the classroom and discourage stereotypical behavior. Explain the goals and objectives of the class at the first session. Use multiple methods...
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Top Ten Suggestions for Using Technology in Teaching
Use Universal Design for Learning standards in developing your web site and iLearn pages; this means offering options for scroll downs, closed captioning and other tools to ensure each student has maximum accessibility. Avoid overstocking Internet pages with too much information and design, so the learner can better focus on the essence of the material. Ensure that directions are clear and stated on those pages where instructions on both using the site and completing an assignment are found. Review the purpose and proper use of the technology with your classes at the beginning of the course...
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