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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Usability Development
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Making Web Accessibility Work for Your Institution Is Everyone's Business
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May 31, 2012
Making sure that all students, faculties, and staffs have access to web content is critical in education today. When those individuals have disabilities, access may well depend on what it is th…
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Beyond Resizing: Best Practices in Mobile Site Design
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May 31, 2012
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A session at the Southeast Regional Conference
As mobile device technology progresses every year, mobile usage of the web grows and transforms with it. Atkins Library researches and performs usability tests to provide an ideal mobile user exper…
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Accessibility and Usability: Working Together at MIT
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April 4, 2012
The usability and accessibility teams in MIT’s Department of Information Services and Technology have always worked closely together, but were formally merged during a department-wide reorgani…
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If You Build It, Will They Come? Usability Testing to Improve Effectiveness of Online Content
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May 31, 2012
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A session at the Southeast Regional Conference
The Digital Scholarship Lab partners with faculty and graduate students in the use of digital and networked research tools to create, disseminate, and store new knowledge. The DSL provides expertis…
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The CAUs of Solid Course Design: Maximizing Student Learning
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June 1, 2012
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A session at the Southeast Regional Conference
Copyright, Accessibility, and Universal Design for Learning form the CAUs to help online faculty build accessible courses from the ground up. At UCF, we've updated our professional development…
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Accessibility and Usability: Working Together at MIT
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March 14, 2012
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
The Usability and Accessibility teams in MIT's Information Services and Technology Department (IS&T) always worked closely together but were formally merged during a department-wide reorga…
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Common Sense and Technology: A Library Usability Experience
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March 9, 2010
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010
If building and maintaining accessible and intuitive digital and analog resources is critical to successful libraries, so too is assessing these resources. This session will describe the efforts of…
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Measuring Usability: Life After Deploying Your Portal
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October 30, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Worldwide Campus held intranet usability studies that supported a redesign project and provided an environment that was backed by human factors and real-…
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Teaching Nurse Anesthesia in a Second Life Operating Room Simulation
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October 29, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
An operating room simulation was developed in Second Life to teach KUMC Nurse Anesthesia students basic operating room procedures. This presentation will describe the design, development, usability…
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The Why and How of Web Accessibility
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April 4, 2008
The challenge of web accessibility raises issues of both policy and technology. This session features experts in each of these two areas. Policy guru Tracy Mitrano says: "Developing a web…

















