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EL111

Assistive Technologies for the Online Learner

This course will provide you with the basic foundations of assistive technology and its use in the online learning environment. As a greater number of students with disabilities are entering online education, this course will prepare online faculty to meet their unique needs. You will learn about the obligations and legal responsibilities under U.S. federal law. In addition you will explore ways of assisting students with disabilities to succeed in the online learning environment. We will help you identify the appropriate tools, introduce you to universal design, and provide strategies that can make your online course accessible to those with disabilities. Online accessibility is beneficial to all of your learners!

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In conjunction with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, MaxKnowledge has been honored by the 1EdTech Consortium as a Learning Impact Award Finalist for scaling pedagogical knowledge and practice through evidence-based technology.

MaxKnowledge Founder & CEO, Dr. Amir Moghadam, has been named as one of Career College Central's top 12 innovators leaping forward with ideas that have influenced the career education realm.

MaxKnowledge Chief Learning Officer, Tarlon Moghadam, has been named as one of Career Education Review's top 20 leaders changing career education.

In collaboration with the Universal Technical Institute, an independent evaluation study by the ROI Institute® proved the ROI of MaxKnowledge employee training on student retention to be over 500%.

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This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career Ed Lounge, a learning community of career education professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.

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Course Testimonials

"Thank you!!!! This was a unique course for me --- great content."

"This was an excellent course providing essential content."

"Really appreciated learning about all students and how disability is not always clearly defined."

"Wonderful course! I have had a significant amount of working with students with disabilities in class, but not online. This course helped me out there tremendously."

"This course was very helpful to me as an instructor. I learned some very important facts about how to better understand the different types of testing/assessments that can be given during an online course. I will certainly apply the information that I have learned to my courses."

"As a parent of a daughter with learning disabilities, this course was very enlightening. It gives me hope that my daughter will be able to pursue a post-secondary education."

"This is a very good course. I really enjoyed completing this class. The quizzes were more difficult compared to others I have completed, but I did learn a lot. "

"For courses in online learning, I have learned as much by how the course presents itself as a model to follow as I have through the content. In fact, I believe these courses to be more useful as online learning than they would be in-person."

"Excellent Course, Learned alot about handling students with dissabilities and making the class more accessible to my online students."

"It was an informative and rich course. It made me aware of many tools the instructor can use to improve the accessibility of the online course to accommodate all learners regardless of their learning styles of disabilitites."

"As Educators, I feel that my colleagues and I have minimal knowledge and training in how to manage students to disabilities. This course have made me more award of the many resources available to obtain any information in regards to students with disabilities."

"This course was very useful. I would love to take a course where we would get to play with some of these technologies."

"The course was interesting I have a personal interest this subject. "

Course Objectives

Module 1: Online Learners with Disabilities

Define disability and areas of disabilities.
Describe various physical and visually impaired disabilities.
Describe cognitive disabilities.
Describe psychiatric disabilities.
Recognize hidden and other disabilities.

Module 2: Itâ€™s Your Legal Obligation

Describe the history of disability law and its impact on online learning.
Identify the most important laws assisting online learners with disabilities.
Analyze the differences between Section 504 and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Recognize the principles that create accessible online course content.
Compare and contrast the ideas of equity and access in online learning.

Module 3: Assistive Technology (AT) Tools

Recognize the obstacles in online learning, from the learnersâ€™ perspective.
Identify challenges to communication and accessibility.
Explain vocabulary associated with assistive technology hardware and software.
Choose appropriate assistive technology tools for course content and delivery.
List key assistive technology tools and resources available and the training required to use them.
Outline key components for creating accessible documents or re-tooling courses.

Module 4: Making Your Course Accessible

Identify problematic online components for students with disabilities.
Recognize problematic areas of traditional online teaching methods and learning management systems.
Develop guidelines for accessibility that you can implement in your own courses.
Create a framework for using assistive technology tools in your course.
Identify the pros and cons of creating accessible documents.
Organize an accessibility checklist that you can use in your course work.

Course Structure

Course Format

Can Start Anytime
Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
4 Hours of Activities

Completion Requirements

Study Course Content
Pass ALL Required Quizzes

Digital Badge & Certificate of Completion

4 Hours of Continuing Education
Awarded upon successful completion of course

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Certification Credits

This course provides a Certificate of Completion with 4 hours of continuing education credits.
This course provides credit toward the Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) credential in the following specialization area(s):
- CHEP in Online Teaching
This course provides credit toward the continuing education requirements for CHEPs in all areas of specialization.

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