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Going Online: More of teh Same or an Opportunity to Re-Create Engineering Eduction?
Supporting Students with Special Needs in Your Online Course: A Roundtable Discussion
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Universal Design for Learning at Virginia Tech
As part of its Brown Bag Lunch Series, the Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning invited Susan Asselin, professor and department chair for the School of Education, to speak on the topic of "Creating Accessible Instruction in Online Environments."
These distance education-themed brown bag lunch discussions are open to the entire university community and continue to play an active role for sharing experiences and best practices for distance learning faculty. Register today for the next lunch series, "Supporting Students with Special Needs in Your Online Course: A Roundtable Discussion", scheduled for March 27th, 2013 from 12-1:15 pm.
Susan Asselin shares how to make PowerPoint presentations more accessible to students with disabilities.
Asselin, along with Larry Cox, graduate student in the STEM Education Collaboratory, shared best practices for making classes more accessible within a universal design for learning framework. In working within this framework, Asselin and Cox discussed that not everyone does or sees things the same way, especially when posting documents, thus offering some good rules of practice with regards to PowerPoint presentations.
Some of the take-aways included:
Always bring a print-out of slides
Choose background themes and style sheets judiciously
Overall, be judicious in color
Use header style guide (such as built-in numbers and bullets)
Title hyperlinks with relevant names (with a move to not titling links such as 'Click here')
Enable the closed caption video component
Include slide content in the 'Notes' section
Members of Virginia Tech's eLearning faculty community, taking in the universal design for learning presentation.
Asselin also shared that blogs used effectively can foster greater accessibility, in particular the feature of having a record of themes and topics as an archive. By nature of their appearance, blogs look inviting and easier to navigate. Discussions can be facilitated through the feedback tool, including a variety of ways to contact the instructor.
Efforts to create greater course accessibility come with concerns, from both students and faculty, as outlined below:
Student Concerns:
Accessibility
Expectations about coursework and learning
Variety of faculty teaching styles
Stigma
Faculty Awareness
Faculty Concerns:
Knowledge of diverse learners
Rigor and content standards
Laws
Contacts: Susan B. Asselin, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning
Aaron Bond, Assistant Director, Faculty Development and Support Services Article by: Jenise Jacques, Photos by: Peter Means
Resources: Learn more about IDDL Learn more about Virginia Tech Online Wikipedia: Universal Design for Learning
2013 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy
It is the final day of the 2013 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech (What is pedagogy anyway?). As one of the university's premiere conferences, the stage welcomes educators and presenters from all across the nation and world—with 28 countries represented. This is knowledge sharing at its best, and the best part, free to all participants. A rarity for conferences at this level and scope. We at IDDL (Institute of Distance and Distributed Learning) were pleased to play a role in this event—with poster presentations by Lujean Baab and Dawn Stoneking on one of the many funding opportunities provided by IDDL. If we have enticed you with this nugget, please read more about this effort here. Lujean also led a presentation on the new faculty mentor program, a pilot initiative that has taken off with much appeal in the College of Engineering. You will be seeing and hearing more about this as the program develops over the semester.
I have to say, my friends kept asking me what is pedagogy anyway? Well again see this! Define pedagogy.
Lujean Baab of IDDL, [email protected] and Bryan Katz, [email protected]
A few photos from the poster sessions
Article by: Jenise Jacques, Photos by: Peter Means Learn more about IDDL Learn more about Virginia Tech Online Related topics: What is pedagogy / Define pedagogy
A discussion of the Virginia Tech online course 'Healthcare Information Technology' with Virginia Tech Professor Lara Khansa and Graduate Student Jeff Lang.
Faculty Inquiry Group Met with Great Interest
Building on the success of the launch of the Faculty Inquiry Group (FIG) in the fall 2012 semester, the Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning (IDDL) is excited to share the formation of the spring 2013 cohort.
A FIG can be defined as a professional development program in which a small group of faculty members meet in person or online throughout the academic year or a semester to work together on a specific question, issue, or concern in their teaching and/or their students
This spring, larger group meetings will be supplemented with smaller groups working together to research authentic assessments for online course. Potential research topics include:
Assessing Student Motivation
Participation/Interaction/Collaboration Assessment
Scaling the Grading Expectations for Authentic Assessment
Gaming/Virtual Worlds/Simulations Assessing Student Motivation
Continuing to Evaluate Content Transfer After the Course is Finished
Contact Aaron Bond to learn more and be a part of this dynamic group.
Fall 2012 Edition of Access & Innovation
IDDL is proud to serve as the advocates for high quality teaching and learning at a distance.
The fall 2012 edition celebrates examples of distance learning in action. IDDL looks forward to working with you to enrich the distance learning landscape at Virginia Tech.
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Snowball fight on the drillfield!
Snow on the Drillfield!!
First snow of the season at Virginia Tech.