Center for Online Learning and Students with Disabilities

The Center for Research of Learning at the University of Kansas in collaboration with its partners CAST and NASDSE, seek qualified Graduate Research Assistants to join an innovative team of researchers and developers at the Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities.  This federally funded Center seeks to understand how online learning can be made more accessible, engaging, and effective for K-12 learners with disabilities by investigating approaches that address learner variability within the range of conditions under which online learning occurs. To this...

It is important that all students are equipped with accessible products, but it is often hard to tell which products are accessible. For this reason, the Center has launched a new table that provides at-a-glance information on common products used by students in online environments. We’ve designed the table to provide details on available VPATs or accessibility information from a variety of vendors. You can sort through the information by category, vendor, or color-coded system of how readily available VPATs are. What’s a VPAT?...

The first questions we want to answer are: what are your hopes for how online learning might be changed to effectively reach students with disabilities and your fears about what might happen if some changes aren’t made? We await your feedback; please comment below. [contact-form-7 id="156" title="Contact form 1"]