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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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April 5, 2013 | Joan Cheverie
The Copyright Alert System (CAS), which is a partnership between copyright owners and Internet Service Providers (ISPs), went into effect on February 25, 2013.  The goal of the CAS is to cut down on illegal peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted material and is devised to be an educational...
April 4, 2013 | Kristen Vogt
Last September, Next Generation Learning Challenges published a white paper laying out our perspective on what next generation learning is and what it requires. The six dimensions of the framework were built out of observations of the work of NGLC grantees and a scan of the field. Since then, we...
April 2, 2013 | Gerry Bayne
CIO’s Brad Wheeler and James Hilton reflect on what Consumerization means to the IT organization.
April 1, 2013 | Timothy M. Chester
Walk around any institution of higher education, even those well known for effective delivery and use of information technology, and you will find the following to some degree or another.
March 27, 2013 | Nancy Hays
 By Rob Abel, Marwin Britto, Patrick Masson, and John JohnstonThe growing emergence of digital devices, learning platforms, and applications promises easier access to a variety of content, increased productivity, and the realization of personalized learning environments. Unfortunately, it is a...

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