Showing posts with label Instructional Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Instructional Design. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Accessibility Awareness Twitter Feed

Twitter Stream by @PatrickMGarvin related to Accessibility.  Lots of good tips...high frequency.  Newly created July 2022:

Helping you better understand web accessibility for people with disabilities, whether you're a student, teacher, journalist… whomever!

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

A Rubric for Evaluating E-Learning Tools in Higher Education


The Rubric for E-Learning Tool Evaluation offers educators a framework, with criteria and levels of achievement, to assess the suitability of an e-learning tool for their learners' needs and for their own learning outcomes and classroom context.

Anstey, L. & Watson, G. (2018, September 10). A Rubric for Evaluating E-Learning Tools in Higher Education. Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/9/a-rubric-for-evaluating-e-learning-tools-in-higher-education

ADA Compliance for Online Course Design

Key Takeaways
  • Lessons learned from campuses nationwide have informed an approach to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act during the process of online course design.
  • Providing multiple ways for students to gain knowledge, demonstrate knowledge, and interact goes a long way toward making a course accessible to all students, including those with disabilities.
  • Accessibility efforts benefit not only students with disabilities but also students who are English language learners and those working in noisy or quiet environments.
Burgstahler, S. (2017, January 30). ADA Compliance for Online Course Design. Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/1/ada-compliance-for-online-course-design

A Human-Centered Approach to Empowering Faculty for Excellence in Online Course Design

By emphasizing interpersonal connection in the design process, instructional designers can foster stronger relationships among students and faculty in digital learning environments.

Wargo, K. (2019, May 8). A Human-Centered Approach to Empowering Faculty for Excellence in Online Course Design. Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2019/5/a-human-centered-approach-to-empowering-faculty-for-excellence-in-online-course-design

The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think

As a fight over the future of elite higher education consumes university leaders and politicians, most college students live in a very diffe...