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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.

Posted by Diana Oblinger

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Top Information Security Concerns for Researchers

February 12, 2013 | Valerie M. Vogel

Communicating information security issues with campus researchers is a common challenge in the higher education community. Often, researchers may not see information security or data protection as their concern. A new HEISC resource, Top Information Security Concerns for Researchers: Protecting...

EDUCAUSE Groups Briefed on ECPA Reform and Its Implications for Higher Education

February 11, 2013 | Joan Cheverie

As part of Data Privacy Month on January 29, 2013, Greg Nojeim, Senior Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the Director of its Project on Freedom, Security & Technology, briefed EDUCAUSE’s Higher Education Chief Privacy Officers group and the Higher Education...

ERO Conversation: Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation

February 11, 2013 | Gerry Bayne

Ian Dolphin is Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation. In this conversation with John Bucher, CTO for Oberlin College, Dolphin discusses the foundation's products and the benefits of community source.

Advancing the Next Generation of Learning through Evidence: What We Learned at ELI 2013

February 8, 2013 | Kristen Vogt

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the NGLC blog at nextgenlearning.org. Several conversations, sessions, and keynote speakers at this year’s annual meeting of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, ELI2013, focused on

FTC Issues New Report on Mobile Privacy Disclosures

February 5, 2013 | Joan Cheverie

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report on February 1, 2013 that says it wants — but is not mandating — makers of mobile operating systems, app developers, and advertisers to be provide "timely, easy-to-understand disclosures about what data they...

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