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Created by the Office of Disability Support Services at Kansas State University to help faculty ensure course content is accessible, this website offers many useful resources. An accessibility checklist and how-to documents you can use to ensure that content is accessible at a basic level. Examples of what makes content accessible and why accessibility is important. Resources for more information and best practices for accessibility.

" The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze two online legal environment courses to determine whether the instructor successfully used technology to create an effective online teaching and learning environment. The central focus is on the concept of "teaching presence" in physical and online environments and how teaching presence can be created in an online environment. "

This was a long article (50 pages) it was a study of two legal courses and whether they engaged the students in learning. It provided a background on distance learning, and learning theories, and then described the two courses and the research questionnaire. It was an interesting study, but I am not sure that faculty would find this useful or informative on how to improve their presence in their courses.

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Resources for accessible web design, many which apply to designing accessible online courses

Practical information for making your online course accessible (Word documents, PPTs, PDFs, video, etc.) 

This is my tutorial. Thanks for including it!

"Resources on making distance learning courses accessible to students and instructors with disabilities."

A checklist

"Sloan-C community peer-reviewed techniques, strategies, and practices in online education."

To help make quality online education accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, the members of the Sloan-C community share techniques, strategies, and practices in online education that have worked for them. All effective practices are peer reviewed to insure quality and to give submitters some documentation for tenure and promotion files.