Foundations of Creating Accessible Content | The Teaching & Learning Centre

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by Gina Catenazzo, Instructional Designer in the Teaching & Learning Centre

Creating and providing accessible materials is about inclusion, equity, and social responsibility. With Ontario’s commitment to be a fully accessible province by 2025 through the implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), knowing how to create accessible learning materials and documents is crucial!

Join us for our 2-week interactive asynchronous online micro-credential Foundations of Creating Accessible Content. In this foundational course, we will review and apply the accessibility guidelines and requirements applicable to creating digital content and consider their practical application in creating your content. This course gives you an opportunity to consider accessibility in a hands-on way, evaluate digital content, and learn how to fix it.

After successful completion of this course, you will walk away with strategies and resources to help with making your digital content accessible as well as a micro-credential badge in Foundations of Creating Accessible Content.

Foundations of Creating Accessible Content is being offered March 6, 2023 – March 19, 2023.

Please note: This course is fully asynchronous with two optional synchronous sessions.

Register for Foundations of Creating Accessible Content in MyPD.

Teaching & Learning Day Winter 2023

Get ready for a day filled with learning, technology, and excitement! Join us for Teaching & Learning Day Winter 2023 on Monday, February 27 at Newnham Campus. This event is dedicated to exploring educational technology and its impact.

Our keynote speaker is Dr. Robert Clapperton, Associate Professor in Professional Communication at The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University and co-founder of Ametros Learning, a natural language understanding experiential learning platform. His keynote presentation, "The Promise and Peril of ChatGPT and other Large Models to Critical Thinking and Creativity," will explore the explosion of large language models on the academic scene in terms of risk and opportunity.

In the morning, attendees will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of workshops that focus on different aspects of educational technology. We have something for everyone: tech tools, classroom technologies, OERs, virtual reality, and more! In the afternoon, join us for a Tech Crawl; it's a fun way to learn about the latest technologies in education. And if you're feeling adventurous, take part in our AR Scavenger Hunt and you could win a prize!

Don't miss this opportunity to connect with experts in the field, learn about the latest advancements in educational technology, and have fun while doing it! Register now in MyPD for this free conference and join us on Feb. 27 (during Study Week) at Newnham Campus!

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