EASI ONLINE COURSES
Announcing the Dick Banks Memorial Scholarship
The courses listed below can be taken individually or anyone completing 5 courses will earn the Certificate in Accessible Information Technology provided by EASI and the University of Southern Maine. All courses are entirely online and asynchronous. Content is online and class discussion is either in email or on a discussion email list. Courses are usually month-long, instructor-led and class participation is encouraged. These month-long courses are more intensive and contain more detail than are the synchronous Webinar series described on the Webinar page.
Students, overseas participants and EASI annual Webinar members receive a 20% discount on courses. Registration information is available on each course syllabus page.)
* EASI COURSE STARTING March 1!
Barrier-free E-learning
Syllabus for Barrier-free Elearning
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Syllabus for Barrier-free Information Technology
Schedule: 2010 January 4, May 3, September 6
Information technology can provide the most accessible learning and working conditions in history for people with disabilities. This course will enable institutions to design both onsite and online electronic devices and electronic information to include and empower people with disabilities while using universal design to provide user-friendly tools for everyone. When designed from the bottom up, costs will not be prohibitive and both computer and information systems will meet the standards of disability-related legislation.
Syllabus for Barrier-free E-learning
2010: March 1, July 5, November 1
The course is based on the realization that faculty are placing content inside a courseware management system which is responsible for achieving most Web Accessibility meaning faculty normally only need to know a limited set of accessibility features. The course demonstrates how faculty can achieve accessibility while using authoring applications they already know. Creating accessible course content can be easier than many believe.
Syllabus for Accessible Internet Multimedia: Podcasts, Vodcasts and Streaming
Schedule 2010: April 5, December 6
Educational and other information providers on the Internet are increasingly using multimedia as a means to disseminate information. Multimedia poses special problems but also unique opportunities for reaching people with disabilities. Providing transcriptions, captions and descriptive video synchronized with the media is a real challenge. This course will give step-by-step instruction in how and when to provide transcriptions and synchronized captions.
Syllabus for Train the Trainer
Schedule 2010: April 5, August 2, December 6
Syllabus Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Content
Schedule: 2010 January 4, May 3, September 6
This course is designed to support alternative media specialists in creating new documents that are more accessible, and converting existing documents into alternate formats such as Word, PDF, DAISY and NIMAS. Documents need to be well constructed which in turn facilitates accessibility. Documents also need to be repurposed to other formats based on an organizational need.
Special topics will be an independent study course designed between the student and EASI staff given almost any time on request. It will be designed to meet the specific interests and needs of each registrant.
Syllabus for Barrier-free Web Design
Schedule: 2010 February 1, June 7, Oct. 4
The course is based both on the Federal Access Board’s Section 508 Web standards and on the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2 which were released in Dec. 2008.
Do you have trouble reading computer and software manuals? EASI will take the jargon out of Web design and out of the technical requirements for Web design. The course will not require an extensive knowledge of HTML as it assumes that designers are working in some Web authoring sofware that does the actual Web coding for the designer. Web pages can be created using Universal Design principles permitting Their use by people with different browsers, different connection speeds, palm pilots, PDA's and by people with disabilities using Adaptive computer technology.
Courses Listed by Month
January 4
Syllabus for Barrier-free Information Technology
Syllabus Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Content
February 1
Syllabus for Barrier-free Web Design
March 1
Syllabus for Barrier-free E-learning
April 5
Syllabus for Train the Trainer
Syllabus for Accessible Internet Multimedia: Podcasts, Vodcasts and Streaming
May 3
Syllabus for Barrier-free Information Technology
Syllabus Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Content
June 7
Syllabus for Barrier-free Web Design
July 5
Syllabus for Barrier-free E-learning
August 2
Syllabus for Train the Trainer
September 6
Syllabus for Barrier-free Information Technology
Syllabus Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Content
October 4
Syllabus for Barrier-free Web Design
November 1
Syllabus for Barrier-free E-learning
December 6
Syllabus for Train the Trainer
Syllabus for Accessible Internet Multimedia: Podcasts, Vodcasts and Streaming
EASI/USM Certificate in Accessible Information Technology
Anyone wanting to work for the Certificate in Accessible Information Technology need not inform us in advance. Take courses at your convenience, BUT contact us before you register for the fifth course as you will receive a 50% discount on its registration. We will provide with you a special registration page. After completing the fifth course, contact us so we can get the personal data that is required by the University of Southern Maine for the Certificate and for the 15 CEUs that you will also earn.
Read about the EASI Annual Webinar individual or Institutional Membership program
