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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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After all, “it's not just enough to put materials in Blackboard if it's not going to be accessible,” says Jennifer Albat, instructional designer at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. About universal design for learning. Almog, 2019; Triandafilide, 2020). CEI (2022).

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam.

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College Students With Learning Disabilities Are Asking For More Support. Will They Get It?

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“What it seems like is disabilities services providers [are] having to think about new barriers placed in an online environment,” Lalor says, such as difficulty reading text on screens or heightened anxiety from being filmed during class discussions or while taking tests.

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Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change.

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Our daughter is now in third grade, and we recently attended her annual meeting to discuss progress on her IEP. Neither does finishing all the problems in a designated time frame or being able to fit your thinking into a little box at the bottom of a worksheet or exam. Fast forward to this school year.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. About universal design for learning. Almog, 2019; Triandafilide, 2020). CEI (2022).

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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Print content was uploaded and accessible via the LMS, where faculty could view discussion prompts and suggestions. Adaptive technology that depends on algorithms alone is insufficient to foster learner-centric design. Like great teachers, thoughtful instructional design teams see patterns in how people learn. Is that adaptive?