DCCOL Summit

The Summit on Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Online Learning will bring together the most experienced individuals and programs in supporting online learners with disabilities. The goal is to share policies and practices, successful strategies and proven pitfalls, and to shape a program of action that will help the distance education community embrace students with disabilities as viable online learners.

Over the course of two days, participants will hear brief presentations to introduce topics of interest/concern, followed by guided discussion of key questions and issues surrounding that topic. A tentative list of topics includes:

Identifying students with disabilities in online classes
What documentation to ask for—and how to read it!
Assigning accommodations for students with disabilities
Policies/Procedures guiding support/services for students with disabilities
Electronic text and media conversion
Impact of technology access/match
Navigating the legal landscape
What have we learned... and how best to use it?!?

These sessions will be facilitated by experienced colleagues from:

DCCOL (Disability Compliance in Career and Online Learning)
Capella University
Empire State College
University of Phoenix
Westwood Online
Sloan-C
AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and Disability)

Where:

The Summit will be held at the Concourse Hotel on the grounds of the Port Columbus (Ohio) airport. There are five hotels located within a one block radius, all connected by shuttle, giving participants a range of options for hotel price/amenities. More information will be provided upon registration.

Participation Fee:

A $100 participation fee will be the only cost to participants. That fee will help offset the cost of meeting room rental, two full lunches and refreshments during Breaks, and all printed materials.

Agenda Day 1