The ACCESS Project
Funded by DOE
- Ensuring that students with disabilities receive a quality higher education.
- Determined that emphasis on assistive technologies was too narrow
- Disabled students didn't think they were disabled
- Decided to broaden the definition of accessible
- Make the technologies more usable
- About teaching and technology
dissemination
- Embedded UDL principles into prof development to improve learning, teaching, and technology
Created a UDL award
- Monetary incentive
Acvisory group
- Provost
- Teaching and learning
- Student affairs
- IT
- Retention
- Gives an external prospective
- Tie UDL to strategic plan
- Provides buy-in from senior administration
Orientations for new faculty
Master Teacher Initiatives
Teaching with Technology
Electronic reserves
Electronic books
- Planning team for e-book reading technology
- Hardware and software
Faculty training
- f-2-f
- Online modules
- accessproject.colostate.edu/udl/modules
- UDL research in gateway courses such as vet services and psychology
Research results
- 9-11% of students have a disability
- Just a few hours of training can produce significant changes in instructor teaching behavior
Institutionalization is realized by
- Philosophical shift to UDL
- Inclusive pedagogy for all
- Advisry group of key administrators
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