Live Webinar: Accessibility in Distance Education: Issues for a New Administration
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 09 Nov 2016 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
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| Location: | 2030 Morrill Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| URL: | http://www.celt.iastate.edu/events-registration |
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| Phone: | 515-294-5357 |
| Channel: | Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching |
| Categories: | Training, development |
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Here is some of what you'll learn during this 60-minute live webinar:
== Understanding the current accessibility situation and barriers to digital inclusion
== Uncovering necessary sources of knowledge and resources to better design programs and courses to engage learners of all abilities and disabilities
== Knowing how to conduct an audit and/or review at an educational institution focused on positive outcomes rather than avoiding the punishments associated with noncompliance
== Establishing institutional and faculty development programs to improve accessibility and learning opportunities
== Evaluating learners' bandwidth situations and ensuring that campuses can perform and are adequately staffed for evaluations of campus infrastructure, LMS, learning software, closed captioning systems, and assistive systems and devices to deliver online learning and distance education
Get to Know Dr. Janet K. Poley
Janet Poley, PhD, is professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the past president and CEO of the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC).
Dr. Poley's interest in accessibility issues has steered her entire career. She grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where her uncle was badly hurt in a tractor accident and paralyzed from the waist down. Without access to distance education, he would not have been able to pursue a career. But thanks to the learning opportunities made available to him, he ended up living a full life working as a professional accountant and, after additional training in an unrelated field, became Nebraska's first paraplegic pilot.
Dr. Poley continues to regard her uncle as a source of inspiration in her work. She has been an important participant in national summits and meetings on accessibility issues since the Internet's educational uses emerged in the 1990s. As the US Department of Agriculture's director for communication, information, and technology during the Clinton-Gore administration, she developed the national information infrastructure's extension and outreach capabilities.
Dr. Poley has received the Excalibur Award for Exceptional Government Service from the United States Congress and the Mildred B. and Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education.
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Learn@ISU website website:
1. Visit the Learn@ISU website
2. Login with your Net-ID (username) and password (upper right corner) *Note:* Your Net-ID will be the prefix in your ISU email account ([netid]@iastate.edu)
3. Click the Login button
4. Locate the Keyword search box (upper left section) > Input "CELT" > Click Search
5. Locate the program > Click List Events next to the appropriate cohort/program
6. Click Enroll - a pop-up window will appear
7. Click Register
8. You will receive an email with the subject: Enrollment Confirmation
OR:
By Email celt@iastate.edu
Please include:
1. your name
2. your department
3. your position (instructor, faculty, P&S staff, or teaching or graduate assistantship)
4. name of the event
5. date of the event
OR:
By Phone at 294-5357.
This event is coordinated by The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching