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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Free webinar today:Current and Evolving Accessibility Practices: Practical Advice from Two Institutions

Sorry for the short notice -- I just received this.

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Current and Evolving Accessibility Practices: Practical Advice from Two Institutions

Presented by: Afsaneh Sharif & Donna Scalzo, Office of Learning Technology, University of British Columbia, John Louviere & Neal Legler, Faculty Assistance Center for Teaching, Utah State University
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:00-2:00pm


Online learning environments hold great promise for expanding access to education for students with time and geographic challenges. Providing a supportive learning environment involves considering the needs of a wide range of learners and instructors, including those with physical and cognitive disabilities or technical limitations. The ability to do this can be somewhat challenged within the structure of a course management system such as Blackboard (WebCT) Vista, as full control of the web interface may not be possible. In response to student and faculty needs, educational developers from two institutions, the University of British Columbia and Utah State University have worked to determine how some of the issues may be addressed through instructional design, rigorous web design methodologies and some technical applications. Please join us as we share current and evolving practices in this important area of online.

To register, please go to http://www.wimba.com/eventreg/participant/registration.php?eventid=1234.

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