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Download PDF by Norman Coombs: Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design

By Norman Coombs

ISBN-10: 0470499044

ISBN-13: 9780470499047

Making on-line instructing Accessible bargains on-line academics, educational designers, and content material builders a complete source for designing on-line classes and offering direction content material that's obtainable for all scholars together with people with visible and audio disabilities.

Grounded within the theories of learner-centered educating and profitable direction layout, Making on-line educating Accessible outlines the most important laws, judgements, and directions that govern on-line studying. The booklet additionally demystifies assistive applied sciences and comprises step by step information for growing available on-line content material utilizing well known courses like Microsoft workplace and Adobe Acrobat, in addition to multimedia tools.

Including a wealth of invaluable counsel and proposals for successfully speaking with disabled scholars, the publication includes functional suggestion on buying obtainable direction administration structures, constructing suggestions for inaccessibility concerns, and developing education fabrics for college and employees to make on-line studying really accessible.

"This worthwhile how-to ebook is a serious device for all educational designers and college who educate on-line. Coombs' a long time as a pioneer of on-line instructing exhibit in his deep wisdom of the foundations which can permit the reader to use those classes to any studying administration method (LMS)."
Sally M. Johnstone, provost and vp educational affairs, Winona nation collage, Minnesota; former govt director of WCET at WICHE

"As a growing number of of our social lives become mediated through know-how, on-line accessibility is a basic correct, no longer a luxurious. This booklet is a must-read for someone serious about maximizing entry to learning."
Richard N. Katz, former vice chairman and founding director, EDUCAUSE heart for utilized Research

"This important ebook displays Coombs' specific adventure and dedication to the simplest educating, studying, and accessibility concepts for every kind of scholars and teachers."
Steven W. Gilbert, founder and president, The TLT Group-Teaching, studying, and expertise Group

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Do not be concerned about the technical jargon. Most refer to HTML Web design. The “alt” does apply to content other than Web pages. A screen reader cannot describe an image, but the author can attach a short, hidden text description to the image which the screen reader will vocalize for its user. ) We are not advocating text-only course content. Using graphics cannot only make the content more visually appealing and interesting, but also for topics in art or science, for example, they may be essential.

TAKE-AWAYS FROM THIS CHAPTER In this chapter I outlined the three components of online accessibility for students with disabilities: • The online learning interface or the courseware system must provide a gateway into the courses that can be navigated easily. • The faculty needs to provide content that meets high standards of effective communication and avoids technical accessibility problems. indd 30 8/4/2010 5:47:37 PM8/4/2010 5:47 • The student has to come to the online learning experience prepared to be a responsible learner, including being equipped with a quality computer and adaptive technology to facilitate the online learning experience.

Ruth Clark (2007) also recommends segmenting online lessons for all learners so that they can be completed in short chunks. Limit asynchronous e-learning lessons to two to five minutes and synchronous e-learning lessons to an hour. Chunking implies not only that the document is modularized but also that it is well organized. Good structure—or rather, the headings that provide the visible framework—is an aid to content navigation for all users. Using well-thought-out, descriptive headings will enable users with disabilities to navigate quickly through the document, just as do users with normal vision.

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