University of Colorado Boulder - Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education
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Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education at Coursera Overview
Duration | 7 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education at Coursera Course details
- This course provides instruction and strategies to support you in developing a course that is inclusive to students with a wide range of abilities, including students with disabilities. We cover effective practices to increase inclusion and avoid some of the common accessibility issues that can arise in an online course.
- In particular, Basics of Inclusive Design Online covers course organization, the accessibility of Microsoft Office and PDF documents, making course instruction pages accessible, captioning of videos, making images accessible, and designing for learning differences. We also discuss how inclusive course materials can help all students, including students without disabilities.
- This course will appeal to those who want both a broad overview of the range of accessibility considerations and also a step-by-step guide of how to check documents for accessibility, caption a video, or prepare course content for non-visual users.
- Course logo credit: "web accessibility word cloud" by Jill Wright (https://goo.gl/xyUoeU).
- Copyright - some rights remain. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1: Introduction to Course, Demographics, Universal Design
Introduction to Course
Introduction to Course Logistics
Three Factors of Course Accessibility
Demographics and Inclusive Design
Student Perspectives
Introduction to Universal Design with Sheryl Burgstahler
Week 2: Accessible Documents
A Review of Online Accessibility Issues
Creating Accessible Microsoft Word Documents
Creating Accessible Adobe PDF Documents from Word
Creating Accessible Microsoft Powerpoint Documents
Week 3: Complex Images, Tables, Graphs
Complex Images, Tables, Graphs
Alternate Text for Images & Tables
Describing Complex Images
Week 4: Captioning
Introduction to Captioning
UD Benefits of Captioning
DIY Captioning with Amara - part 1
DIY Captioning with Amara - part 2
Captioning with YouTube - part 1
Captioning with YouTube - part 2
Week 5: Uncovered Topics, Resources & Review
Keyboard Accessibility
Color Contrast
Lecture: Interview on Learning Management Systems with Hadi Rangin
Resources for Accessibility and Universal Design
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