By Tony Bates, on August 31st, 2010
On August 23 I posted about online learning and students with disabilities. In the post, I asked readers for suggestions about how to improve the accessibility of my own site and where people could find more information about standards for accessibility for the visually impaired.
I received an excellent response, both as comments to [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 23rd, 2010
Kolowich, S. (2010) Blinding technology of online learning Inside Higher Education, August 23
In this excellent article, Steve Kolowich examines some of the issues around access to online learning for blind or visually impaired learners. In the USA, this is threatening to become a big issue if Federal legislators decide to apply to online [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 14th, 2010
Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, was one of the participants in the recent HEQCO meeting to discuss possible areas of research that would inform the development of a new Ontario Online Institute.
Following the meeting, he produced a very interesting document for HEQCO entitled: A Research Framework for the Online Learning Institute [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 20th, 2010
The context
OK, I’m not James Stewart, and it wasn’t Washington, and this posting’s a little late, due to other things, but this is a report on my presentation to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology on June 9.
The committee was studying access to post‑secondary [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 6th, 2010
This is really a posting for Canadian readers, but we’re not too proud to take suggestions from anywhere!
I have the honour of being invited by the Canadian Standing Senate Committee on Science and Technology to give my views on what should be done to increase access to post-secondary [...]
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