TACE Consultant

Robert L. Todd, M.S.,
Consultant

Mr. Robert L. Todd is a Senior Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA). He holds an M.S. degree in Information, Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as an M.S. degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Georgia State University. He is the project director of the CATEA initiative in Electronic and Information Technology and SciTrain: Science and Math for All.

He directs related research on the usability and accessibility of online resources and is a lead designer and instructor for Georgia Tech’s Professional Education certificate courses in Creating Accessible Web Sites and Usability Engineering. He is the project director of the CATEA Training initiative, responsible for designing and coordinating training and related evaluation across multiple federal projects. He is a member of the Georgia Virtual Schools Task Force, a body of educators charged with researching and creating standards for statewide online education.

Mr. Todd has been teaching at the university level since 1990, and has conducted courses at Emory University, Georgia State and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 1996 he has regularly provided seminars, conference courses and professional education training to attendees throughout the nation and Europe. Mr. Todd received the Georgia Tech Best Practices Award for 2005 for leadership of the Access E-Learning project to create online training on accessible distance education for Institutes of Higher Education. He received the MERLOT Best Practices Award for Education in 2007 for his leadership of the Georgia Tech Research on Accessible Distance Education (GRADE) project. His current research focuses on the uses of assistive technology in accessibility of online education for all students, on accessible science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and on web usability/accessibility.