[Academic] FW: ECU webinar events: designing accessible courses

[Kirsten Munro]

FYI

Kirsten

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Subject: ECU webinar events: designing accessible courses

Dear All,

Please see below for a series of webinars on designing accessible courses that are being offered by the Equality Challenge Unit. I would be grateful if you could consider signing up for one and also circulate this among your academic colleagues who may be interested.

Many thanks,

Ann

Ann Duncan
Disability Service Manager
University of Strathclyde
Rm 4.41 Graham Hills Building
50 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1QE

Tel: 0141 5483402
Email: ann.duncan at strath.ac.uk<mailto:ann.duncan at strath.ac.uk>


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Subject: ECU webinar events: designing accessible courses
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What can academics do to advance disability equality?
=        Are you an academic involved in determining what skills and knowledge students need to gain while studying?
=        Do you want to be confident that the standards you set for your courses are compliant with disability legislation?
=        Do you want tips on ensuring students are able to fully demonstrate their ability?
We are running a series of webinars for academics to support you in developing learning outcomes or competence standards that are non-discriminatory and inclusive for disabled students.
Each webinar will cover:
=        how course arrangements can potentially disadvantage disabled students, and why learning outcomes and competence standards are so important
=        what steps can be taken to ensure learning outcomes and competence standards are genuine and meet related legal responsibilities
=        how to think about assessment so that learning outcomes and competence standards are thoroughly tested so students are not disadvantaged
The webinars will be interactive, with opportunities throughout for questions and discussion. You will have the opportunity to learn from guidance recently released by ECU.
Dates
To ensure examples and discussion are relevant, the webinar will be run four times with a focus on different subject clusters.

Date

Subject cluster

5/11/15

Arts and Humanities

12/11/15

Health and Social Care

19/11/15

Social Sciences

3/12/15

STEM

Webinars will run from 12:30 - 13:15. This will include a short introduction on how to use Blackboard Collaborate to ensure you can engage fully with the webinar.
Get involved
To sign up for the webinars, please fill in the form here: http://www.ecu.ac.uk/events/designing-accessible-courses/
Although the webinars will be aimed at academics, staff working in equality and diversity or disability services are also welcome to attend.
Further information
ECU has recently produced guidance on 'Understanding their interaction of competence standards and reasonable adjustments.' Download the guidance for free<http://www.ecu.ac.uk/guidance-resources/student-recruitment-retention-attainment/student-retention/inclusive-learning-teaching/competence-standards-reasonable-adjustments/>:

Chris Brill
Senior Policy Adviser
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