The Accessible Education Project is proud to announce the launch of the Accessible Education Hub - a one-stop shop webpage for information on educational guidelines and resources as they become available and identified by the project teams: https://uwaterloo.ca/accessible-education
The Teaching Innovation Incubator, in collaboration with the Associate Academic Vice President is hosting a two half-day Accessible Education Day on October 16th and October 17th. Topics to be covered include legislation governing Accessibility, Post-Secondary Course Accessibility Guide, Navigating Accommodations, Universal Design for Learning, available assistive technologies, among others. Be sure to register to attend!
On August 15th from 10:30am-11:30am, the Centre for Teaching Excellence is hosting a workshop for instructors about Assistive Technologies Students Use to Support Learning.
After months of dedicated internal work, the AEP team presented at the University of Waterloo’s annual Teaching and Learning Conference. The goal was to engage with the broader Waterloo community, discuss the project’s objectives, and highlight the impact of accessible teaching practices and policies. They also sought feedback from instructors and staff who have implemented their own accessibility teaching initiatives.
The Ontario Summit for Students with Disabilities produced their findings from their one-day online conference in February 2024. The report shares the stories and lived experiences of over 100 students attending post-secondary institutions in Ontario with lived experience with disability.
The Teaching Innovation Incubator is seeking support from University of Waterloo faculty, staff, and students who have an interest in providing feedback and enhancing their knowledge about accessible education by participating in an Accessible Education User Testing Group.
The website for the Disability Inclusion Steering Committee (DISCo), the committee of senior University leaders who are leading UW's approach to meeting the 185 AODA recommendations, is now live. The Accessible Education project is just one example of how DISCo has identified an approach to meeting its accessibility goals. Read more about the broad work of DISCo.
The Centre for Teaching Excellence has developed a new resource identifying the existing accessibility initiatives at the University of Waterloo.
The three Accessible Education project teams - Policy & Guidelines, Instructional Programs & Practices, and Learning Tools & Materials - are set to begin work this fall. Faculty, instructors, and staff from across campus have been identified and invited to serve on these project teams as either team members or collaborators.
Over the course of the fall term, work will be done to plan how each team will address the AODA recommendations that they are being tasked with addressing.