Renee Shaffer

Location: south carolina

About me

I am a career educator (27+ years) in higher education at the university and career college level. I love helping colleagues put the pieces together to learn how to be the best instructor/educator possible.

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Course Accessibility

Parrish, Excellent! Breaking the course content into modules in a progressive fashion can help both the student and the instructor. Renee Shaffer

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Visual Impairments

Parrish, Very good, thoughtful points. One of the keys is for the instructor to be open to the idea that there are students out there with impairments. Avoiding assignments that require students to describe what they "saw" is a good idea, or at the very least, give the students another option for the assignment. Renee Shaffer

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Should students take a gap year

Every decade or so, people talk about the need of students to take a break from school- a gap year- before they go on to college. They can do community service, find another competency or skill, etc. It was in the news yesterday and today (See below) What do you think?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/30/voices-column-gap-year/8513019/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/05/01/college-admissions-gap-year-education-column/8577689/

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Essentials: LMS, Documents, Assessment

What is one easy thing that an online instructor can do when making Word documents that would help those students with a visual impairment?

Renee Shaffer

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Making Content Accessible

What are the three main angles that the online instructor should cover when making their course content, including videos, accessible for those with disabilities?