Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education

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Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education

Instructors: Emily Moore

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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9 hours to complete

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

83 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

9 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Summarize what Inclusive or Universal Design means in the context of designing an online course
Recognize the potential challenges and accessibility issues that can arise in an online course
Describe the impact of inclusive course materials on all students, highlighting the benefits for learners without disabilities

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There are 5 modules in this course

This course provides instruction and strategies to support you in developing a course that is inclusive to students with a wide range of abilities, including students with disabilities. We cover effective practices to increase inclusion and avoid some of the common accessibility issues that can arise in an online course.

In particular, Basics of Inclusive Design Online covers course organization, the accessibility of Microsoft Office and PDF documents, making course instruction pages accessible, captioning of videos, making images accessible, and designing for learning differences. We also discuss how inclusive course materials can help all students, including students without disabilities. This course will appeal to those who want both a broad overview of the range of accessibility considerations and also a step-by-step guide of how to check documents for accessibility, caption a video, or prepare course content for non-visual users. Course logo credit: "web accessibility word cloud" by Jill Wright (https://goo.gl/xyUoeU). Copyright - some rights remain. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Welcome to the first week of Basics of Inclusive Design! This module will review the structure and logistics of the course and then introduce the issues that affect course accessibility. The topic of course accessibility will include an interview with two students who use Assistive Technology to access digital material. The assignment will allow you to learn more about the issues that students with different backgrounds and abilities face when taking a course and for you to offer your own solutions for addressing the needs of students who may need special adaptations for accessing course material.

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6 videos1 reading1 peer review

6 videos Total 38 minutes

Introduction to Course 5 minutes
Introduction to Course Logistics 2 minutes
Three Factors of Course Accessibility 2 minutes
Demographics and Inclusive Design 4 minutes
Student Perspectives 8 minutes
Introduction to Universal Design with Sheryl Burgstahler 16 minutes

1 reading Total 1 minute

Course Updates and Accessibility Support 1 minute

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Accessibility Challenges in Courses 120 minutes

Following a review of online accessibility issues, in this week we will explain the steps to create and remediate course documents in MS Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF documents. The assignment will provide you with an opportunity to apply these skills to actual documents.

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4 videos1 peer review

Week 3 will focus on creating appropriate text alternatives for complex images and other more complex material, such as data tables and graphs. The assignment will provide you the opportunity to add alternate text to images.

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3 videos1 peer review

This week, we will introduce the topic of captioning, discuss its accessibility and Universal Design benefits and then provide step-by-step instruction for captioning videos using a variety of tools. The assignment will provide the opportunity to caption a video.

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6 videos1 peer review

This final week of the course will cover topics not covered in earlier lessons: keyboard accessibility, color contrast and the accessibility of Learning Management Systems (LMS). The assignment will ask you to use a resource we have covered and one discovered by you to address one of a number of accessibility scenarios.

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4 videos1 peer review

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Emily Moore

University of Colorado Boulder

3 Courses 19,178 learners

Howard Kramer

University of Colorado Boulder

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Reviewed on Mar 28, 2021

A great introduction to accessibility in online learning. Not just theory but practical instructions for using many readily available tools.

Reviewed on Feb 23, 2019

Very useful. Practical. I can confidently recommend this for anyone interested in inclusive educaiton

Reviewed on Apr 14, 2019

The design plan for this course progressed along a logical pathway for understanding. Including scenario-based assignments was a strength of the course.

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