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Student-Created Content Counts! Carolyn Speer, Ph.D. Manager, Instructional Design and Access November, 2017 Bit.ly / ContentCounts

Agenda Situation at WSU From Agreement to Outcomes “Training ” Students Tracking and Motivation 2

What’s going on at WSU? 15,000 student state R-1 university in Kansas NFB agreement signed in July 2016 All content, credit, non-credit, and for enrichment and in any delivery mode (f-2-f and online) must be accessible by July 29, 2020Major re-tooling underway including: CommitteesTrainingPolicies, procedures, etc.

Letter of the Agreement “All instructional materials, co-curricular materials, EIT, and online courses created or used by a WSU department or professor in connection in with any WSU course offering will, to the best of WSU’s ability, be accessible … at the same time they are available to any other student in that program .... [and they] will be made accessible no later than four years from the execution of this agreement.”

Letter of the Policies Agreement led to three policies, with 8.11 being primary here: “All instructional materials, co-curricular materials, Electronic and Information Technology (EIT), LMS’s, and online courses created or used by a WSU department or instructional staff with any WSU academic course offering will be accessible to students with disabilities, and at the same time as they are available to any other student enrolled in that setting, to the best of WSU’s ability.  Any educational materials or content that is required, optional, or for enrichment for any WSU student will be accessible or an equally effective alternate access will be provided.”

We Got “Spirit of the Agreement” Yes We Do! “All” means ALL “Services, programs, and activities” (Agreement) “Required, optional, or for enrichment” (Policies)

What Training is Necessary? Aligned our agreement training needs with our existing goals Distilled our agreement to learning objectives and outcomes: III.C.1 WSU instructors and appropriate WSU administrators as determined by WSU can: 1. Summarize/describe/paraphrase the requirements of the ADA.2. Summarize/describe/paraphrase the requirements of this Agreement.

Who Must be Trained? Letter of the agreement: All “instructors”: “’Instructors’ means all individuals who provide any course-related instruction to WSU students, including, but not limited to, professors, lecturers, fellows, and teaching assistants.” Spirit of the agreement: All instructors and others who offer: “Services, programs, and activities” (Agreement)“Required, optional, or for enrichment” (Policies)

Building Training for Students Students aren’t typically “trained”; they are taught. Wichita State does not have a history of extending staff/faculty training to students without a direct instructional role. Existing university training can provide a model for creating student-facing training on similar topics. Where should this training “come from”? And how should it be delivered?

Major Trainings Ability Ally Foundations of Accessibility Advanced Accessibility (Proposed)

Mini/Targeted Trainings for Students Accessible speeches and lectures in online and F-2-F Making handouts Building a webpage Running a discussionMaking a videoMaking an audio podcastPresenting a poster Going to a conference

Using the “Digital Credential” Model Credly credentials: provides extrinsic motivation tracking

The Plan Offer and promote the trainings directly to students and also to faculty Run parallel training offerings through Graduate School Professional Development Focus on major trainings Incorporated into an integrated “how to teach” approachFace-to-face sessions and online Pursue offering generic trainings to other universities and other constituents

14 Thank You …Questions?