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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

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This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities. As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities. As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions.

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The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

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Businesses and organizations are providing free access to digital tools and apps for teaching and learning (see THE Journal’s ever-growing list of Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak ). To assist with this, my students and I co-wrote a freely available, open access book, “ Teaching with Digital Tools and Apps.”

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New AI Tools Are Promoted As Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good?

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And the tools serve as a particular lifeline for neurodivergent students, who suddenly have access to services that can help them get organized and support their reading comprehension, teaching experts say. Has this person used AI when there was a ban in the class?” This is not cheating,” she stresses.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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2) how many faculty or staff have been furloughed or fired? Over the last 8 months, I have been disturbed to watch so many institutions actually cut faculty development budgets while massively increasing spending on LMS contracts, proctoring solutions, plagiarism detection software, cameras in classrooms, and videoconferencing tools.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

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They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement.

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