The Web Accessibility MOOC for online educators, a collaboration between Portland Community College and Brightspace, begins on October 20 and offers five weeks of facilitated learning focused on improving online course accessibility. The course, designed for educators and related professionals, aims to build knowledge in web accessibility and enhance course content through hands-on activities. With nearly 1000 registrants, it addresses the urgent need for accessible online education amid increasing legal scrutiny on accessibility standards.

1. Web Accessibility MOOC for Online Educators

2. Web Accessibility MOOC for Online Educators
Reg opened: Monday
Collaboration between
Sept. 29
•Portland Community
College and
•Brightspace Teaching and
Learning Community
Course begins Mon. Oct. 20
with 5 weeks of active
facilitation (can start early
and finish late)

3. Web Accessibility MOOC for Online Educators
Free on D2L Open Courses
opencourses.desire2learn.com
Mostly activity-based
learning
Hands-on, content creation
Facilitated by Barry Dahl
of D2L and Karen
Sorensen of PCC

4. Why WAMOE?
• The Brightspace Teaching & Learning
Community focuses on the following:
– Professional development for educators
– Effective practices related to online teaching and learning
– Spotlighting client contributions for the good of all
• Web accessibility for online educators has long been
seen as an area of high need and little attention.

5. Why WAMOE?
• Many educational institutions have not been
able to focus their attention and resources on
making their online courses more accessible.
• Several lawsuits in the past few years have
brought this issue more to the forefront.
• WAMOE is a step towards closing the gap by
providing free resources for educators.

6. Same with Accessibility

7. Primary Intended
• Online FacultyA, inusdtruicetorns,c teeachers
• Secondarily:
– Instructional designers, instructional technologists, and others who
support faculty
– Technical staff, including LMS technicians
– Administrators (management): those who supervise the faculty and
staff
– Disability and Accessibility professionals

8. Primary Learning Goals
Goal 1: Build the personal knowledge base in web accessibility for each participant
• Example 1: Learn how to assess the accessibility of software used for online courses
Goal 2: Create Accessible Photo Images, Diagrams, and Charts for Online Courses
• Example 2: Learn when alternate text is required for images, and how to properly provide it
Goal 3: Create Accessible Audio and Video for Online Courses
• Example 3: Learn how to add captions to videos or search for already-captioned videos
Goal 4: Create Accessible HTML Content for Online Courses
• Example 4: Learn the proper page layout and other items for accessible web pages
Goal 5: Create Accessible Course Content in Other Formats
• Example 5: Learn how to make accessible Word documents for use on online courses

9. Let’s take a quick visual tour of WAMOE

10. Preliminary Numbers
• Nearly 1000 registrants
• About 185 personal
introductions
• About 235 demographics
form submissions
• 80 have completed week
one activity
• 100 have joined a
smaller group

11. Optional Form
Plans or Goals Sforu WAbMmOEissions
Highest Honors Certificate 32%
Honors Certificate 10%
Participation Certificate 25%
Learn lots, no certificate 25%
Just browsing, or lurkers 5%
Huh? What? A Plan? 3%
Type of Organization
2-year college 57%
University 32%
K-12 1%
Other 8%
No answer 2%

12. Optional Form
Role/JobS/Tiutlebmissions
Faculty 30%
Instructional designers 33%
Management 14%
Accessibility Services 6%
I.T., and similar 6%
Other 9%
Accessibility Skill/Knowledge
A11Y Beginner 37%
Advanced Beginner 32%
Intermediate 20%
Advanced Int & Higher 10%
No answer 1%

13. Let’s take a quick look at OpenCourses

14. Questions and Answers

15. WAMOE Tour
• D2L Open Courses
• Course Catalog and
Registration page
• Course Home page
• Legal Disclaimer
• Course Content
• Discussions
• Activities and Assessments
– Basic and Advanced
• Certificate Levels

16. Open Courses Tour
• Getting into the Course
Catalog (Acct Mgr)
• Workbook completion
• Basic and Premium
• Self-registration
• Intelligent Agents
• Surveys
• Widgets (standard home
page layout, custom
widgets by request)