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“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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June 7, 2013 | Nancy Millichap
It’s all systems go, at last: Northern Arizona University, one of the ten institutions presently developing breakthrough degree programs with NGLC support, recently got the green light to start enrolling students in their Personalized Learning program. The Higher Learning Commission of...
June 3, 2013 | Diana Oblinger
What does it take to address the 2013 top-10 IT issues and be a CIO? Grit.Grit, it seems, may be as essential as intelligence. People with grit persevere. They have a passion for their goal. They invest effort, in spite of setbacks, to accomplish long-term goals — goals they believe are worth...
June 2, 2013 | Timothy M. Chester
A central concern with MOOCs and other student directed learning experiences is that by decentering the traditional gatekeeping role of teachers, such experiences lack an authoritative center for determining the rigor and depth of a course as well judging the mastery of learning outcomes by...
May 30, 2013 | Michael Caulfield
There’s really four elements companies like Coursera have brought to the table.
May 24, 2013 | Gerry Bayne
In this podcast, Stephen Landry discusses attending a Gartner Symposium, disruptive technologies, and how higher education IT reflects the corporate world.

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