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Making Accessibility Attainable: A Toolkit for Engaging Your Campus

Robyn Belair
Prior to joining edX as its newest Learning Designer, Robyn was a Learning Designer at Lesley University for a number years where she partnered faculty to develop fully-online and blended courses and collaborated with institutional groups to promote digital accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She also designed and facilitated professional development offerings for faculty focused on online teaching, UDL, accessibility, and pedagogical strategies. Robyn also served on Lesley's accessibility task force, led by the General Counsel, working on outreach efforts and learning materials. Digital pedagogy, accessibility, and UDL continue to be of high importance in her work at edX and beyond. She is active in the education technology community serving as board member for both the Boston EdTech Foundation and the Young Education Professionals Boston chapter, also volunteering with KodeConnect, a nonprofit offering STEM learning opportunities for Brockton children. In 2017 Robyn completed a fully-online graduate program to earn a Master's of Education (TESOL Specialization, with a focus on the adult language learner and online ESL/ELL tools and technology).


Lance Eaton
Lance Eaton is an instructional designer and faculty development specialist at Brandeis University, a doctoral student in UMASS Boston’s Higher Education program, and a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University.  His professional work focuses on improving student learning and experiences in online, hybrid, and traditional classrooms through faculty development focused on issues such as accessibility, universal design for learning, open educational resources, open pedagogy, and other inclusive practices that maximize student potential through traditional and newer pedagogies and technologies.  His doctoral work focuses on the limitations of the academic publishing regime for scholars who rely on piracy practices to access research literature in order to publish new research.  He also writes for several magazines and websites. His musings can be found at http://www.ByAnyOtherNerd.com

Adam Engel

Adam Engel is an instructional technologist interested in UDL and digital accessibility. Before arriving at Emerson College, he taught writing and literature while completing his PhD in English and certificate in Digital Humanities. In his free time, Adam is a devoted dog parent, gamer, and video poet.
Corrine Schoeb
Corrine Schoeb works at Swarthmore College, a small (around 1,500 students) liberal arts college located near Philadelphia, PA. Corrine was previously a front-end web developer and is now Swarthmore’s Technology Accessibility Coordinator. As a foreign service kid, she was exposed to many points of view and uses this experience to help build alliances across diverse areas of the college. She became passionate about equitable web access while working as an intranet front end developer at a Fortune 100 company. She is the point person for electronic accessibility and leads the institutional efforts of accessibility inclusion in the areas of procurement, web, learning management, and course materials. Here is a blog post about her if you’d like to learn more. 


Jenn Stevens 
Jenn Stevens has been the Director of the Instructional Technology Group (ITG) at Emerson College since 2012. ITG develops and promotes accessibility standards for the college’s online programs and implements these standards in Canvas with the help of the WAVE and Ally accessibility checkers, Abbyy FineReader and Acrobat Pro, and captioned videos. She has an Ed.M. in Technology, Innovation and Education from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. 


Lindsey Van Gieson
Lindsey Van Gieson is the Instructional Technology Systems Manager at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She has been at WPI since 2014. She leads the Academic Technology Center’s outreach, administration and support efforts for Canvas, WPI's Learning Management System. She works with faculty and students in their use of the LMS and other educational technologies to address teaching and learning challenges. She also develops a number of instructional technology resources for faculty and assists with the development and delivery of workshops on instructional technology topics including accessibility and technology best practices.  


Kathryn Weber-Hottleman
Kathryn Weber-Hottleman serves as the University of Connecticut’s IT Accessibility Coordinator, ensuring the University’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) accessibility, with particular focus on the University’s websites and online learning environments. She monitors University compliance with regulations and regulatory guidance specific to ICT and implements plans for enhancement in collaboration with other administrators, faculty and staff. She also provides guidance and assistance to campus departments in integrating accessible technology into the classroom and workplace environments and develops and implements staff and faculty training programs related to accessible technology and instruction for students and employees with disabilities.

 

 

 

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