Distance Education Report Online Seminar: Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Online Courses

Featured Higher Education Presenter: David Wood

Date: Thursday, 9/02/10

Time: 12:30-1:30 PM Central Daylight Time

Cost: $229 ($254 after 8/26/10)

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Presenting a uniform online course experience can be an enormous challenge as the student population becomes increasingly more diverse. Serving deaf, blind or otherwise disabled students requires a deliberate approach, but with some help it doesn’t have to mean trial and error.


One of the first steps in the process of making sure that you are meeting the needs of students with disabilities is to take a look at some of the most useful assistive technologies that are currently being used to access online courses. Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Online Courses covers all the bases and provides concrete steps to make sure online courses are meeting the needs of every type of student. In 90 minutes, it's possible to become familiar with assistive technologies and get the entire team up to speed.


Major topics:
• Course Design: Doing it right the first time
• Assistive Technologies: How disabled students navigate courses
• Contact Methods: Email, TTY
• Social Networking: The problems and opportunities
• Transcripts and Closed Captioning: The best and the rest
• Accessibility Committees: Forming an oversight team


As with any Magna Online Seminar, there’s plenty of interaction, including live question and answer, polling to help guide the discussion, and screenshots of handouts and programs. Each attendee will also take home checklists, templates and informational sheets to make implementation easy.


Must-have information for:
• Disability Service Coordinators
• Distance Learning Facilitators
• Developmental Lab Coordinators
• Faculty
• Administrators
• Course Designers
• And any member of the online education team.


Presenter
David Wood is a leader in online course design and accessibility issues. He serves as the IT Access Coordinator for the Dallas County Community College District, where he assists faculty in making online courses more accessible. Mr. Wood is also a regular contributor to online education conferences.


Stay on the cutting edge
In addition to the invaluable content and implementation tools, Magna Online Seminars allow you to pay just one fee and invite the whole team. No more outrageous travel expenses or conference registration fees. Our seminars are easily set up anywhere, from a small office to a large auditorium.

Distance Education Report Online Seminar: Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Online Courses