Making the Digital Classroom Accessible for all Students
Educational access is the provision of classroom accommodations, auxiliary aids and services to ensure equal educational opportunities for all students regardless of ability
- Ten ideas for instructors for communicating, summarizing and accommodating learners when redesigning your course for digital delivery. Top Ten Tips: NIC PDF
- Department of Accessible Learning Services (DALS): Digital Exams for Students with Disabilities: Webpage
For some of our students, the change to remote learning and digital learning platforms may be empowering and provide them with more opportunities to be successful, but for others the change itself may be just the beginning of new challenges.
NIC’s Department of Accessible Learning Services (DALS) are working hard to advise and support students with documented disabilities who wish to start or continue their studies at NIC. It is important for faculty to be aware that, just like in the F2F classroom, they will be working with students with diverse needs. The following tips are to support faculty in creating a learning environment that is accessible to all students.
For more information and consultation, please contact a member of the DALS team https://www.nic.bc.ca/student-services/accessible-learning-services/
Here are some key resources and information:
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Adapted from www.kpu.ca/learningcentres with thanks