Online Learning Update

September 10, 2014

5 Accessible Design Tips for Blended Courses

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

Revamping a course to be accessible to students with physical or learning disabilities can help make it more accessible to everybody else too. Blended learning typically involves an element of student control over when, where and how learning takes place. But what happens if a student isn’t very good with “self-direction, self-pacing and self-motivation”? As Ibrahim Dahlstrom-Hakki, a senior academic researcher and associate professor at Landmark College in Vermont, expressed it, those are “critical areas of weakness” for students with learning disabilities — and they can be problems for mainstream students as well.

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/09/03/5-accessible-design-tips-for-blended-courses.aspx

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