accessibility

Tips for Making Your Courses More Accessible

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

As instructors, we want to challenge our students, help them to learn and grow, and ensure they have a positive experience in our courses. We carefully develop and curate content that will engage students and help them meet our course objectives. One ...

Tips and Tricks for Creating Accessible Video Lectures

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Recording lecture videos can be a powerful way to share your knowledge and establish a rapport with your students. Unfortunately, these videos can pose challenges to students with certain disabilities if specific design considerations are not met.For ...

What Does it Mean to Design for Scale?

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

An Introduction to the Whys, and the Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities of Scaling Up [1]Imagine being in a meeting with your supervisor, a team of instructional designers (IDs), a project manager, media director, and administrative leadership, ...

So Many Submissions, So Little Time: Scalable Assessments, Feedback Models, and Fostering Community

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

March 10, 2021

This article is a part of the What Does it Mean to Design for Scale? series.“How do you know they know?” is a critical course-design question to answer to ensure learners provide evidence of their understanding and competence. And for all inten ...

A “No-cost Course” Means New Solutions for Accessible, High-quality Material [1]

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

March 10, 2021

This article is a part of the What Does it Mean to Design for Scale? series.Everyone loves a good textbook, right? Or an online article, and a relevant YouTube video or two to get the point across? But implementing these resources can either be costl ...

Universal Design and Your Ally(ies): Pedagogical Strategies

By: Mary Loder

May 12, 2020

The Fingerprints of Your Classroom“The way people learn is as unique as their fingerprints.” (CAST, 2020) Original photograph by Bryce Edwards, licensed under CC BY 2.0When you think about the composition of your classroom and begin to design yo ...

Integrating Technology with Bloom’s Taxonomy

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

May 9, 2016

Creating authentic learning experiences for students is an essential element in online course delivery. Through recent discussion instructors have inquired “How do we provide meaningful learning experiences for students using tools that are int ...

Accessibility in Online Courses

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

July 29, 2015