Welcome to the ‘Taking Action for Inclusive Design’ course. While this course stands on its own, it is the final part of a learning path called ‘Addressing Technology-Access Barriers to Online Learning’. You will likely get the most out of your experience if you have already completed the previous offerings in the learning path, ‘Shifting from Systems to Interactions with UDL‘ and ‘Tech Tools and How to Use Them Inclusively‘.
In this course, you will learn how to advocate for specific information-technology (IT) changes to expand adoption of inclusive practices that lower technology-access barriers. The intent of this course is to help you to take meaningful action to get broad adoption of inclusive design practices in the way your organization uses technology tools and systems.
Learning Outcomes
The goal of this course is to help you to scale up your organizational inclusive-design efforts beyond relying on the goodwill and initiative of individual instructors, designers, and administrators. As a result of participating in this course, you will be able to
- advocate for specific IT changes to expand adoption of inclusive practices that lower technology-access barriers, and
- implement processes and settings for various technology systems that create default practices of inclusion.
Who Should Take This Course
‘Taking Action for Inclusive Design’ is intended for instructors, designers, and administrators who teach online or use technology as a part of their learning environments.
Get Involved And Share Your Learning
- Share your perspective. Throughout this course, you will see discussion prompts at the end of each lesson inviting you to share your thoughts and experience. We encourage you to respond to these discussion questions and read those of other educators to benefit from theirs. When you see a comment you agree with or find helpful, hit the ‘Like’ button to help other educators find it. You can also reply to any comments from other members that you find interesting.
- Ask a question. You can ask questions of experts and other educators in the discussion threads in courses.
- Pick up your course badges. To earn your Course Completion Badges make sure you mark all lessons as ‘Mark Complete’ once you have completed a lesson. At the end of the course, click ‘Mark Complete’ and you will be asked a few multiple-choice questions to earn a Course Completion badge. Once you’ve had a chance to apply your learning, come back to complete an Impact Badges by applying what you have learned in the courses and answering a short survey.