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Designing Accessible Learning Environments

十大博彩推荐排名州立 大学 is committed to ensuring that all students, 无论能力如何, have an opportunity to learn equal to those of their peers. 十大博彩推荐排名州立 大学’s Mission Statement confirms its commitment “to a learning community that is deeply and broadly reflective of the diverse population of New Jersey” and beyond.

虽然 Disability Resource Center (DRC) assists students in receiving accommodations to equalize access, faculty play a key role in ensuring that 课程s are accessible to all students. It is imperative that the three principles of Universal Design for Learning are considered in your approach to teaching and learning:

  1. Multiple Means of Representation: Learners differ in the ways they perceive and comprehend information.
  2. Multiple Means of Action and Expression: Learners differ in the ways they can navigate a learning environment and express what they know.
  3. Multiple Means of Engagement: Learners differ in the ways they can be engaged or motivated to learn.

In order to implement UDL principles in your teaching practices, there are a number of resources available to you and your students. Below are resources for making your 课程 materials accessible to all learners:

画布上的可访问性

创建一个 可访问的画布 课程, it is important that you design it with UDL principles in mind and provide instructional materials that are accessible. Canvas provides several tools to help you to build content that is accessible and accommodate students that need extra time on quizzes and/or assignments:

Accessible Course Materials

According to the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM) for Learning, accessible educational materials are print- and technology-based educational materials, including printed and electronic textbooks and related core materials that are designed or enhanced in a way that makes them usable across the widest range of learner variability, 无论格式如何(e.g., print, digital, graphic, audio, video). 以下是关于 how to create accessible educational materials.

文档 & 文件转换:

多媒体:

Images and Alternative Descriptions:

超链接

Charts, Tables and Equations:

电子邮件:

网站:

十大博彩推荐排名州立 大学 Digital Accessibility Initiative

Digital Accessibility Initiative includes resources to help ensure that all digital content, whether in the form of 课程 materials, 网页, 文档, videos or applications systems, are developed and posted in a manner that is accessible. 的ir website includes many valuable resources: