13 Listening to Our Students

One additional way to continue to improve access to learning in your course is to stay in regular contact with students about their experiences with your online materials. Consider adding a targeted question to your mid-term survey about accessibility, such as “How can I make our learning goals or course materials more accessible to you?” or “Have your needs changed since the start of the term? How can I make the course more accessible to you now?”  Until that data is in, take a look at the videos below to hear from students around on a range of their experiences accessing digital content. The first is short and from University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The second, from Colorado State University (CSU), is longer but goes into more depth. It is from CSU’s Stories of Inclusive Technology—Accessibility by Design video series that investigates student and faculty issues around accessibility.

Attributions

• “Inclusion, Diversity & Disability” by Colorado State University’s College of Health and Human Sciences © 2018. Used with permission.