This course ‘Taking Action for Inclusive Design’ offers a framework for how to talk with your organization’s senior leaders in a language that resonates with their responsibilities, needs, and focus. When we talk about how inclusive design practices and policies have a positive effect on learner persistence, retention, and satisfaction, our leaders are more likely to support such broad initiatives.
Now that you have examined how to think inclusively at the level of technology tools, applications, and systems, three first-step areas for focus are to advocate for consistent interfaces across tools, for inclusive procurement processes, and for access-first planning. All of these strategies help to reduce the amount of re-work and accommodation that results from adoption of inaccessible technology and systems.
This also marks the end of the ‘Addressing Technology-Access Barriers to Online Learning’ learning path. Along the way, you have collected evidence to support arguments about where to best continue your institution’s efforts to lower access barriers for your online and technology-mediated learning, using the principles of universal design for learning (UDL).
Thank you for taking this ‘Taking Action for Inclusive Design’ course which has been developed with Thomas J. Tobin. We hope you have enjoyed it. Remember to mark this lesson as ‘Mark Complete’ to earn your Course Completion Badge.