Thomas Tobin

Intended Audience:
If you’re looking to make course content more accessible, promote increased engagement and collaboration, and/or provide your students with new avenues to express their learning, you’ll find this seminar a rich source of information and inspiration.

Those who will benefit most from the presentation include:

Online faculty
Instructional designers
Teaching/learning center directors and staff
Administrators of distance education programs

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Performance-Boosting Course Design Techniques
Creating alternative ways of representing information, broadening learner engagement opportunities, and expanding the ways learners with disabilities can express their learning can be of great benefit to all your online students.

In the Magna Online Seminar Using Universal Design to Support All Online Students, Tom Tobin, Ph.D., shows how you can design and implement Universal Design for Learning/Instruction (UDL/I) methods to deliver a better learning experience, greater academic success, and, ultimately, improved student retention.

Dr. Tobin, coordinator of Learning Technologies at the Center for Teaching and Learning of Northeastern Illinois University, provides a road map to help you integrate UDL/I principles into both new and existing courses.

He explains how to get started, how to create alternative-media versions of course content, where to find free or low-cost tools to increase online engagement, and how to develop multiple options for students to express what they’ve learned.

Learn practical, easy-to-implement ideas you can put to work right away in your online classroom, enriching the learning experience for all your students.

UDL/I can help you improve learning outcomes and promote student retention. That’s good for your students, good for your distance ed program, and good for your institution.… (altro)