Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities

As educational institutions rapidly expand into online and hybrid formats, designing with accessibility in mind becomes essential. This book helps online teachers, instructional designers, and content developers avoid inadvertently creating barriers for students with disabilities and comply with government-mandated ADA standards. Grounded in the theories of learner-centered teaching and successful course design, the book explains how to design course content and delivery to be both attractive and accessible to all students, creating better conditions for student learning, success, and satisfaction, and better preparing students to compete in the competitive workplace.

Avainsanat: instructional designing for all students, content developing for all students, learner-centered teaching, course design, accessibility standards and compliance, assistive technologies, online content, online multimedia tools, accessibility in teaching science, accessibility in teaching technology, accessibility in teaching engineering, accessibility in teaching math online, encouraging accessibility for online teaching, tips for online effective communication with disabled students, advice on purchasing accessible course management systems, creating training materials online learning access