Wednesday, March 15, 2017

March Happenings

A colleague asked me to help him with an article he had been asked (or volunteered) to write.  It was focused on the Section 508 Refresh.  It seems that has gotten some higher ed folks attention, but they seem to think because the Refresh says there's a year to implement that there's no big press to come into compliance.

However, as I've pointed out here a number of times, Section 504 and ADA that are the laws that educational institutions have an obligation to meet, and those have been around for decades.  So, here's the article

Then, last week, I did a keynote at UTRGV's Excellence in Online Learning Conference.
The named the conference The Year of Access in Online Education  So I entitled my keynote: What Makes This the Year of Access in Online Learning?

Here are the slides for that presentation.