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10 steps for making your online courses accessible for all students

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The philosophy and principles of a UDL framework are similar to UD and are meant to provide pedagogical strategies for instructors to maximize learning opportunities for diverse groups of students including those with physical and/or learning disabilities.”. Knowing Where to Start.

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Improving Accessibility Often Falls to Faculty. Here’s What They Can Do.

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That’s especially concerning to her, given assistive technologies alone won’t always help. Among that 11 percent, an even smaller portion tell their instructor. And some instructors even view the requisitions as as an infringement to academic freedom. You have to advocate for yourself.”

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How Automated Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

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Instead of hearing only from the same six students, instructors get feedback from many more. Amazon Transcribe automatically creates text transcripts from the audio track in the videos and makes them available for students and instructors to view directly from within the classroom player.

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COVID-19 Is Costing Visually Impaired Students Time That Can’t Be Made Up

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On the flip side, technology caused stress in families where parents became navigators for students who could not use assistive technology independently. A huge focus for me is training teachers to use educational technology in a way that’s effective with students that use assistive technology.”

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43 back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year

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–Stefany Gurgel, NC3 Master Instructor, Festo and Instructor, Jewish Leadership Academy In the last few years, we have seen a change in workforce needs–there is strong emphasis on skills-based education, technological proficiency, and adaptability. . With new guidelines from the U.S.

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How Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

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Instead of hearing only from the same six students, instructors get feedback from many more. Amazon Transcribe automatically creates text transcripts from the audio track in the videos and makes them available for students and instructors to view directly from within the classroom player.

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How a Blind Student Who Felt Locked Out of STEM Classes Challenged—and Changed—Her University

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The faculty member, George Dehner, a professor in history, said that he was happy to help students in his classes who are blind or have other disabilities, but felt the administrators were violating academic freedom by telling instructors what they could and couldn’t assign in their courses. But I can’t do that.”

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