ITC Accessibility Webinar Series: Session Archives
The MCC Center for Teaching & Learning is hosting a series of Accessibility and Universal Design Webinars this semester in partnership with the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction (MCLI). These ITC (Instructional Technology Council) sessions will cover a variety of issues and best practices in higher education related to providing equal access to your course and course content/learning materials.
Archived Sessions
Ensuring Accessibility in Online Education
Session Archive: Contact helice.agria@mesacc.edu the Center for Teaching & Learning for the link to the online recording (available until May 24, 2014).
Presenter: Colleen Fleming, Instructional Designer Adler School of Professional Psychology
Description: Online education presents unique challenges for students with disabilities. Solutions to these challenges are as diverse as the students who may require accommodations in order to get the full learning experience for a course. Some examples of accommodations include providing transcripts or captions for videos, converting documents such as PDFs so that they can be read by a screen reader, making sure that all course functionality can be accessed using a keyboard, and giving students extra time on tests within the learning management system. Colleen Fleming will outline the accessibility requirements for online higher education courses, the accessibility procedures and training that have been implemented at the Adler School of Professional Psychology, and practical ways to ensure that online course content can be used effectively by all students.
Approaching Accessibility in Online Courses
Session Archive: Contact helice.agria@mesacc.edu the Center for Teaching & Learning for the link to the online recording (available until April 5, 2014).
Presenters: Loraine Schmitt, Director of Distance Education, Sue Quast, Media Production Manager in Distance Learning, and Karen Sorensen, Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses, Portland Community College
Description: Are your online courses accessible? Hear about Portland Community College’s strategy and the lessons staff learned when they addressed accessibility with more than 400 instructors who teach approximately 2,400 sections of online classes within a complex four-campus college. The presenters will share the process they used to roll out their initiative, accessibility guidelines, and their phased approach for reaching the college’s goal of ensuring all online classes are accessible.
*You will be required to download Bb Collaborate to view the Archive.
Captioning with YouTube
Session Archive: Contact helice.agria@mesacc.edu the Center for Teaching & Learning for the link to the online recording (available until March 29, 2014).
Presenter: Scott McAfee, M.A., Access Coordinator and Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies, College of the Canyons
Description: Learn how to create captions and transcripts for your multimedia files—for enhanced learning and section 508 compliance—using the free YouTube Website. Participants will learn how to easily adjust settings in their YouTube account so uploaded multimedia files are automatically transcribed and captioned. Participants will also learn the subtle differences between captions, subtitles, and transcripts; how to adjust and correct captions; and how to download subtitles onto their own computers.
*You will be required to download Bb Collaborate to view the Archive.