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Legal Requirements: Ensuring equality and accessibility in Higher education

As an instructor what are your legal requirements? This module gives an overview of the legal requirements for ensuring equality and accessibility in digital and face to face learning in higher education.  This module will provide you with information on how to:

  • Recognize the legal requirements for ensuring equality and accessibility in higher education.
  • Define human rights principles: Equality and non-discrimination, Duty to accommodate and Undue hardship.
  • Describe the types of discrimination complaints that students can file.
  • Identify other relevant provincial laws and standards.

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Equality Vs Equity | Discrimination | Accommodations | Human rights & the law | Technology standards | Resources

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Adaptech - Catherine S. Fichten, Alice Havel, Mary Jorgensen, Susie Wileman, Rosie Arcuri