Presented at 2:15pm in WB III on Wednesday, November 15, 2017.
#9176Speaker(s)
- Dawn Hunziker, Associate Director, University of Arizona
- Janet Smith, Instructional Designer, University of Arizona
Session Details
- Length of Session: 1-hr
- Format: Lecture
- Expertise Level: All Levels
- Type of session: General Conference
Summary
The University of Arizona’s Office of Digital Learning and Disability Resources collaborate to ensure quality, accessible, universally designed courses for UA Online. Key partnership elements include sharing resources and knowledge around innovative technologies for teaching and best practices for accessibility and inclusive learning components.
Abstract
This session discusses collaborations between the UA Online's Office of Digital Learning and the Disability Resources IT Accessibility Team to build processes towards ensuring UDL, quality assurance, and accessibility in digital course content. Learn how our comprehensive team works across campus to proactively evaluate teaching and learning software products, identify and modify content that may remain inaccessible and generate innovative pedagogical strategies based on UDL principles. Maintaining a culture of UDL takes active work and participation from across the campus. It demands constant vigilance in evaluating digital learning content across the life cycle of the curriculum, thus requiring dedicated resources to support that vigilance. There remain many challenges, including questions of how innovation in teaching and learning may create opportunity but also generate new challenges for accessibility.
Keypoints
- Understand impact of team structure and collaboration for ensuring accessible, universally designed courses
- Understand techniques and technologies employed for innovative courses which also includes accessibility
- Learn UA's IT Accessibility and our campus collaborations to create accessible learning and IT environments
Disability Areas
Cognitive/Learning, Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Vision
Topic Areas
Accessible Course Design, Administrative/Campus Policy, Uncategorized
Speaker Bio(s)
Dawn Hunziker
Dawn is the Associate Director for the University of Arizona’s (U of A) Disability Resource Center (DRC) and oversees Digital and Physical Accessibility. As an employee of DRC for over 25 years, Dawn has successfully launched several initiatives across the U of A campus, and the Digital and Physical Access Team consults with campus regarding accessibility and universal design in the physical, digital, work, and academic environments. Dawn is a past President with the ATHEN (Access Technology in Higher Education Network) Executive Committee. Dawn often speaks at local, state, and national conferences regarding U of A’s Digital Accessibility Program, pdf/web accessibility, captioning processes, and inclusive curriculum design.