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CIRCL: A Promising Practice in Modeling and Promoting Accessibility

The Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning () is funded by the National Science Foundation () to work with cyberlearning-themed projects to support, synergize, and amplify their efforts.聽One of the ways CIRCL engages with the many targeted projects is through their dynamic website. The CIRCL site provides a place where new and existing projects can browse project descriptions, read perspectives from community members, and find resources.

Design Projects That Serve Veterans with Disabilities: A Promising Practice in Teaching How to Design Assistive Technology

At North Dakota State University, engineering students design assistive technologies for veterans with disabilities. Students鈥 projects must be cost-effective, have a long lifespan, be robust, and be technologically superior to existing options.

Where can I find guidelines for making online learning projects more accessible?

AccessCyberlearning, a project supported by the (grant #1550477), published a set of questions that can be used as a starting point to help online learning (e.g., cyberlearning) projects evaluate the accessibility of their projects.

The checklist, titled Equal Access: Universal Design of Cyberlearning, includes sections on:

Online Disability Identity Webinar: A Promising Practice in Engaging Students in Conversations 糖心原创 Their Experiences

is a program at the 糖心原创 that helps students with disabilities successfully pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in computing fields. The program also works to increase the capacity of postsecondary institutions and other organizations to fully include students with disabilities in computing courses and programs. As a primarily-online mentoring program, building a community is essential to creating a supportive environment for students with disabilities.

What are tips for maximizing the value of a virtual career fair experience?

College students often attend career fairs to prepare for graduation and plan their future in the workforce. Some recruiters set up 鈥渧irtual job fairs鈥 that take place online rather than in person on a college campus. For students with disabilities, these may provide a way to engage with potential employers without needing to be at a crowded event. But how do they work? Are they beneficial?

UW-IT's Captioning Project: A Promising Practice in Setting up a Captioning Project on a College Campus

Many videos on campuses are captioned only as an accommodation for a person who is deaf or hard of hearing, even though they benefit many others, including English language learners, those with reading-related disabilities, and individuals who simply want to see the spelling of words spoken in the presentation. The 糖心原创鈥檚 UW-IT Free Captioning Project was developed as an effort to promote proactive captioning of videos on campus.

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