This website offers free tutorial on creating and using accessible distance education materials for students with disabilities. Four distinctive features of these informative tutorial are offered :(1), Accesse Learning Tutorial, a 10 module tutorial that details the creation of accessible and usable distance education materials such as, accessibility issues of Disabilities in Distance Education, making Power Point slides and videos (2) Course design Modules, contains real world courses which range from designing for the life span to scientific perspective on World Hunger and Introduction to fluid mechanics which provides preparation of courses concepts and introduction to fluid mechanics (3) Fact Sheets, which are easy to use; contains relevant information on briefs in essential issues of accessible design and range from how students with specific disabilities access distance education to how to make a word document accessible, and (4) Guidelines for Accessible Distance Education; this resource details principles and practices for improving the access and use of common non html elements in distance education such as Microsoft office , Adobe and video files.
Type of Material:
Tutorial .This is teacher and trainer resource that demonstrates how to translate courses into predominantly textual representation.
Recommended Uses:
Suggested recommended usage of this tutorial include: in class, individual, and learning teams, homework, lectures, excellent resources for developing professional learning for agencies, guardianship issues for parents of students with disabilities, universities for increasing and improving distance education for students with disabilities, and surrogate training, and online learning to access and use of non html elements in distance education
Technical Requirements:
Technical Requirements: a computer that displays the page and possibly a text to speech type of software.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
To improve accessibility of distance education for students with disabilities throughout the populace by offering technical assistance, research and training.
To provide teachers and trainers the information they need to translate courses with multi-media into more text based displays.
To provide teachers and trainers models of courses that have been converted.
Target Student Population:
General college, lower and upper level, and access to technology to support instruction and online teachers
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Knowledge of WEB 2.0 technology and awareness of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Experience creating on-line courses is helpful although a student could take an existing on-line course and translate it into this format.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This is a valuable resource for students aspiring to be teachers or trainers. It is also valuable for those already in the field. The site provides models, several topics pertaining to the learning outcomes including how this format can be used.
It contains concise information on the benefit of translating multi-media courses into more textual based courses.
Concerns:
No concerns.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The tutorials addresses specific issues regarding accessing distance learning for individuals with disabilities including both visually and hearing impaired individuals. The fact sheet is provided, which contain questions that are frequently asked by individuals with disabilities, and provide answers that are applicable.
The material can be used at any stage in the learning cycle and the easy navigation of the site along with simple visual arrangement of the pages makes it ideal for a quick reference or a full course.
Concerns:
None
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
It is very easy to navigate and the balance of white space to text makes links easy to find and to use. The tutorials are relevant and offer accessibility to individuals with disabilities which level the playing field for them.
Concerns:
None
Creative Commons:
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