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Strategies to Ensure an Accessible Distributed Learning Course: Course Accessibility Documents for Workshop https://sites.google.com/site/courseaccessibility/course-accessibility-documents


 * Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities http://centerononlinelearning.org/
 * Purposeful Sampling of Technologies Employed in K-12 Online Education http://centerononlinelearning.org/resources/vpat/
 * Online Learning and Students with Disabilities: State Policies and Guidance http://centerononlinelearning.org/resources/state-policy-guide/?state=SC&category=ALL
 *  takes the pain out of developing accessible, high performance, clean and nimble front-ends for applications that want to do more. http://fluidproject.org/products/infusion/
 *  is an award winning suite of browser-based tools that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive learning materials quickly and easily.
 * English exchange student blog http://puravidastudent.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/the-top-ten-things-ill-miss-about-studying-abroad-at-usc/
 * Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/changing_course_2012

Iím writing to share some links of possible interest as the group considers options for the selection of courses, schedule, etc., for the APLU proposal:

∑ The National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) has sponsored several large grant programs for ìredesignî of large undergraduate courses using online technologies. An overview of these projects is at http://www.thencat.org/howtodoit.htm and underlying pedagogical principles are at http://www.thencat.org/PlanRes/R2R_PrinCR.htm

∑ NCAT has posted over 150 case studies of university courses which were redesigned to integrate online technologies (including examples from STEM, social science, and humanities) http://www.thencat.org/PCR/Proj_Discipline_all.html

∑ They have also posted how-to resources for institutions interested in this type of approach http://www.thencat.org/howtodoit.htm

* **Ebbinghouse Illusion** “Both of the blue circles are exactly the same size.”

(from Optical Illusions by WyrmCorp http://wyrmcorp.com/galleries/illusions/indes.shtml)