Bicycle for the Mind: AI for Accessibility

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | 9:15AM–10:00AM CT | EDUCAUSE Commons, Teaching & Learning Central Poster Area
Session Type: Poster Session
Delivery Format: Poster Session
Explore how AI enhances accessibility in education, offering alternative document formats and cognitive functionalities. Generative AI improves equitable access for students with disabilities, featuring tools that augment vendor tools with image description, text summarization, and adaptive examples. This session underscores the fact that AI aids all students in a manner akin to auto-captioning or audiobooks, while unlocking new opportunities.

Presenters

  • Szymon Machajewski

    Director of Academic Systems, University of Illinois Chicago