Accessible Syllabus
This digital project grew out of the article “Teaching is Accommodation: Universally Designing Composition Classrooms and Syllabi,” free access from College Composition and Communication. |
Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning, CAST |
The Center for Universal Design in Education, University of Washington |
National Center for Universal Design for Learning |
Accessible Images
Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Material |
Color Universal Design |
Accessible Text
Accessible Policies
Wood, Tara and Shannon Madden. Suggested Practices for Syllabus Accessibility Statements. |
Danielewicz, Jane and Peter Elbow. “A Unilateral Grading Contract to Improve Learning and Teaching.” CCC 61.2 (Dec. 2009): 244-68. |
Roberts, Susan, Myke Fulton, and George Semb. “Self-Pacing in a Personalized Psychology Course: Letting Students Set the Deadlines.” Teaching of Psychology 15.2 (Apr. 1988): 89-92. |
Shor, Ira. When Student Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2014. |
Aycock, John and Jim Uhl. “Choice in the Classroom.” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 37.4 (Dec. 2005): 84-88. |
Disability Accommodations & the Law
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Amendments Act of 2008 |
Grossman, Paul. “Making Accommodations: The Legal World of Students with Disabilities.” Academe 87 (Nov-Dec 2001): 41-46. |
Emens, Elizabeth. “Disabling Attitudes: U.S. Disability Law and the ADA Amendments Acts.” Disability Studies Reader. 4th ed. Ed. Lennard J. Davis. New York: Routledge, 2013. 42-57. |
Syllabi
Afros, Elena and Catherine Schryner. “The Genre of Syllabus in Higher Education.” Journal of English for Academic Purposes 8.3 (Sep. 2009): 224-33. |
Baecker, Diann L. “Uncovering the Rhetoric of the Syllabus: The Case of the Missing I.” College Teaching 46.2 (1998): 58-62. |
Becker, Angela and Sharon Calhoon. “What Introductory Psychology Students Attend to on a Course Syllabus.” Teaching of Psychology 26.1 (1999): 6-11. |
Collins, Terrence. “For Openers . . . An Inclusive Course Syllabus.” New Paradigms for College Teaching (1997): 79-102. |
Cunliff, Ed. “The Boring Syllabus.” The Teaching Professor 28.2 (Feb 2014): 5. |
Singham, Mano. “Away from the Authoritarian Classroom.” Change (May/June 2005): 51-7. |
Singham, Mano. “Death to the Syllabus.” Liberal Education (Fall 2007): 52-56. |