Boardroom Dialogue EDT144
Realising Accessibility Requirements for Your Learning Management System and Online Learning Content
Date Thursday, Nov 28 Time – RoomKöpenick I
The EU Directive on accessibility requires websites and mobile applications of all public sector bodies, including higher education and further education institutions, to achieve specific accessibility standards by certain dates. A key deadline for accessibility compliance in new and older websites is 23 September 2020. This Boardroom Dialogue will be a discussion and information session sharing on how to approach accessibility with regards to learning management systems and their online learning content specifically. The session will be relevant to all that supply content, courses, and technology.
Gavin Henrick
Managing Consultant, Learning Technology Services, Ireland
Gavin Henrick is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brickfield Education Labs. Gavin is an experienced educational technology consultant, with over 15 years’ experience delivering education solutions with a focus around online and blended learning technologies, such as Moodle. Gavin has delivered workshops and presented at conferences around the world on a range of learning topics, with a special interest in Data Privacy, Accessibility and Learning Analytics.
Brickfield Education Labs makes online teaching and training more cost effective, efficient and standards compliant. It builds products that enhance the management of the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment in higher education, government and corporate sectors; the initial focus is on ensuring that content created and stored is complaint with industry best practice and national regulations regrading accessibility.
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Karen Holland
Learning Technology Services, Ireland
Karen Holland is the CTO and Co-Founder at Brickfield Education Labs in Ireland.
With 19 years experience developing mission critical platforms in telecommunications and education, 7 of those years building Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) solutions, Karen is a business analyst, developer and trainer. Karen works with clients to enhance their usage and adoption of their educational platforms and currently focusing on a number of opportunities with Moodle and other learning platforms.
Brickfield Education Labs makes online teaching and training more cost effective, efficient and standards compliant. It builds products that enhance the management of the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment in higher education, government and corporate sectors; the initial focus is on ensuring that content created and stored is complaint with industry best practice and national regulations regrading accessibility.
Our suite of tools finds content that does not meet the regulatory standards by searching through millions of items of content, helps organisations bulk fix the issues found, and future-proofs their system through removing the need for instructors to know the technical details.