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The Role of Campus Leadership in Ensuring IT Accessibility

“Everyone should have an opportunity to participate in higher education.”

With those words, Michael K. Young, President of the University of Washington, opens a new video from his institution’s AccessComputing Project, IT Accessibility: What Campus Leaders Have to Say. Developed with support from the National Science Foundation, this video presents university presidents, chief information officers, and other higher education leaders who stress the importance to higher education of accessibility for persons with disabilities, and of having campus technology environments that support it.

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Major Provosts Embrace Online Learning

June 19, 2013 | Jarret Cummings

The real, near-term impact of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) trend has begun to emerge. In response to the rapidly growing awareness and acceptance of online learning that MOOCs have generated among policy-makers and the general public, senior leaders of traditional colleges and universities...

Trending Now: Postsecondary

June 14, 2013 | Kristen Vogt

Recent research on next gen learning explores MOOC effectiveness and what it takes to create a new model for postsecondary education.Editor’s Note: In this monthly series, NGLC staff share their reflections on recent news and reports in the field of next generation learning at the...

Universities and Libraries Offer a Plan for Public Access to Research

June 11, 2013 | Joan Cheverie

The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have collaborated to offer a plan to expand public access to research. The plan, called Shared Access to Research Ecosystem (SHARE), is...

WCET Testimony on Proposed Distance Ed. Federal Regulations

June 11, 2013 | Jarret Cummings

As previously reported, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently revived the regulatory process it began last summer to address financial aid fraud concerns related to distance education and expanded it to resurrect the department’s previously overturned distance education state...

The HathiTrust Case and Appeal: Fair Use and Technology

June 11, 2013 | Joan Cheverie

In October 2012, Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court in New York ruled in favor of the HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) and its university partners in a copyright infringement suit brought by the Authors Guild (AG) and other groups. In his ruling the judge dismissed the AG’s...

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