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Creating Universally Designed eLearning Materials

Creating Universally Designed eLearning Materials. The ACCESS Project Jesse Hausler, UDL/Accessibility Coordinator Craig Spooner, Project Coordinator. Today’s Students are Diverse. Ethnicity & Culture Native language Nontraditional Gender Learning Styles Disabilities.

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Creating Universally Designed eLearning Materials

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  1. Creating Universally Designed eLearning Materials The ACCESS Project Jesse Hausler, UDL/Accessibility Coordinator Craig Spooner, Project Coordinator

  2. Today’s Students are Diverse • Ethnicity & Culture • Native language • Nontraditional • Gender • Learning Styles • Disabilities

  3. Universal Design for Learning “ Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles and techniques for creating inclusive classroom instruction and accessible course materials. teaching technology ”

  4. UDL: a framework for inclusive pedagogy • Information and concepts are represented in multiple ways and in a variety of formats. • Students are given multiple ways to express their comprehension and mastery of a topic. • Students engage with new ideas and information in multiple ways.

  5. What Makes a Document Universally Designed? • Search-ability • Select-ability for Copy and Paste • Bookmarks or an Interactive TOC • Text to Speech capability • Accessibility

  6. Content, Structure, and Presentation • Content • The actual information you are providing in a document. This can include Text, Images, Videos, or Multimedia. • Structure • The organization of content is structure. This includes headings, lists, tables, emphasis, etc. • Presentation • One can add style rules to structural elements to give documents a particular appearance.

  7. Images and Alt Text • Alternative text for images should describe the meaning - based on the it’s context • Ice Cream Manufacturer • Girl Scouts of America • My Niece's Blog • Diversity Website

  8. Let’s Make Our Own PDFs • Microsoft Word as the Native Editor • Print to PDF • Save As PDF • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F1FC413C-6D89-4F15-991B-63B07BA5F2E5 • Adobe Acrobat Plugin for PDF

  9. Make Your Own PDF Results Accessibility Search-Ability Copy/Paste Bookmarks Text to Speech Print to PDF Save As PDF Adobe PDF Plugin

  10. Let’s Look at Scanned PDFs • Scanned PDF • Scanned PDF with Optical Character Recognition • Scanned PDF with OCR and Tags added

  11. Scanned PDF Results Accessibility Search-Ability Copy/Paste Bookmarks Text to Speech Scanned PDF Scanned PDF with OCR OCR and Tags

  12. UDL and Multimedia Transcripts • A written or text-based record of dictated or recorded speech. May contain additional relevant information, such as descriptions or comments. Captions • A transcript is timed to display with the video track, it displays on screen as a caption. Descriptive Audio • The narration of key visual elements in a video or multimedia product.

  13. Video Captioning • AutoMatic Sync • Upload audio track and transcript • http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/index.htm • YouTube videos • Upload transcript in text format • Machine Automated captions • http://www.youtube.com • MAGpie • Works with most major video formats • http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/

  14. Lecture Presentation Systems • Captions and/or Transcripts • Search-ability • Navigation Options • Keyboard Accessibility • Example 1 • Example 2

  15. PowerPoint Presentations • Outline View • Master Slides • Notes Panel • Description of Charts and Diagrams • Adobe Presenter Output – Notes Tab • LecShare Output – Video Captions

  16. UDL Modules • Teaching • Technology (course materials) • Microsoft Word • Styles and Headings • Images • Adobe PDF • HTML • E-Text • http://accessproject.colostate.edu

  17. Thank you! The ACCESS Project accessproject@colostate.edu http://accessproject.colostate.edu/udl/modules/

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