Valerie Vessey: Business Automation Delivers Efficiency
Business automation creates efficiencies that lay the foundation for future innovation of strategic benefit to the company. Through business automation, a company can also increase its accuracy and reduce the instances of human error. "Any time you can automate...
Aaron Gette: Benefits Of Automation Often Go Beyond Operational Gains
Although automation streamlines operations, it can also have collateral advantages, such as adding value to core business offerings. Automation requires planning to tie process changes back to business goals, and then working with people across the organization to get...
Michael Lampe: Active Learning Classrooms Increase Student Engagement
Colleges and universities that are designing active learning classrooms have an opportunity to take advantage of educational technology that benefits learners of all types. Active learning classrooms allow students to take greater ownership of the educational process...
Kevin Dalin: Open, Meaningful Conversations With Assistive Technologies
Universal Design applies to more than just assistive technologies, and all staff members should be trained in Universal Design principals so that they can help expand education access. Keep “simple and intuitive use” in mind to pick the most universal platform, and...
Devrim Ozdemir: Accessible Curriculum Begins With The Instructor But Requires A Team Effort
Thinking about accessibility throughout the course design process results in tools that help more students, including those who may not fit the typical profiles of students who need additional accessibility. Each institution has to build a process and structure that...
Kara Zirkle: Accessibility Starts in Procurement
Accessibility is more than just including alternative forms or documents or captioning videos in existing content. Instead, accessible technology should be instituted from the beginning of course design and creation to ensure true accessibility. Building accessibility...
Sheryl Burgstahler: Apply Universal Design to Increase Accessibility
Institutions must plan for and consider all students when implementing accessibility technologies. UD strategies can help institutions build learning capabilities to make courses accessible to all students, regardless of location or technological capabilities. "I...
Monica Yatsyla: Empower Students With Disabilities Through Robotics
Leveraging technology such as double robotics can allow students who can not physically attend class the chance to not only participate virtually, but also move around the class as needed, even participate in smaller group discussions. Strong partnership and...
Krista Greear: Content In Multiple Formats Provides The Greatest Access
More emphasis needs to be placed on the issues of creating more accessible content, but sometimes something as simple as providing multiple formats of the same material can greatly improve effectiveness. The longer-term strategy toward highly accessible content...
Karen Rubenstein: ADA Compliance Leads To Better Learning Design
Compliance with legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act is one way institutions can begin to offer assistive technologies, but it should go deeper than those basic requirements. Compliance and needs assessments should reach deep into an institution’s...
