Research on the accessibility of college learning indicates that barriers to equitable learning exist in person, are stronger during online/remote learning, and disproportionately impact underrepresented students. How can you enable all of your students to equally access and benefit from your course learning experiences?
Some ideas:
Organize your course online to guide students along the learning path and explicitly offer multiple means for seeking help (e.g., email, office hours, questions through the LMS).
Make materials financially accessible (e.g. by reserving library materials, or using free, open-source, copyright-unrestricted online materials, such as OpenStax).
Make materials technologically accessible (e.g., by ensuring they are mobile-friendly, keeping file sizes small, turning off the default HD video in your Zoom settings to help those who might not have reliable bandwidth).
Make materials sensorily accessible through multiple modalities (e.g., provide image description and alt-text for all images and videos, narrate visual information when you share your screen, live caption your Powerpoint or Google slides, use PDFs with OCR (Optical Character Recognition), confirm screen reader accessibility with a tool such as Webaim).
Make materials linguistically and culturally accessible by allowing students to engage with materials in alternative languages as suitable, and encouraging paraphrase and adaptation to their own lives.
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