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"CAPTIONING [+]About Captioning [+]Benefits of Captioning [+]Captioning Guidelines [+]Captioning Vendors [+]Research and Studies [+]Spanish [+]The Law DESCRIPTION [+]About Description [+]Benefits of Description [+]Description Guidelines [+]Description Vendors [+]Research and Studies [+]Spanish [+]The Law DESCRIBED AND CAPTIONED MEDIA PROGRAM [+]About the DCMP [+]History - Captioned Films for the Deaf, Captioned Films/Videos Program, and Captioned Media Program [+]History - Captioning Manuals and Guidelines [+]History - Closed Captioning [+]History - John Gough [+]History - Malcolm Norwood [+]Recommend Media to the DCMP ACCESSIBLE MEDIA UTILIZATION [+]For Educators [+]For Interpreters [+]For Other Consumers [+]For Parents"

DMCP = Described and Captioned Media Program. Vedi anche la pagina http://www.dcmp.org/about-dcmp : "Our mission is to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media. The ultimate goal of the DCMP is for accessible media to be an integral tool in the teaching and learning process for all stakeholders in the educational community, including students, educators and other school personnel, parents, service providers, businesses, and agencies. The DCMP supports the U.S. Department of Education Strategic Plan for 2014-2018 by committing to the following goals: Ensuring that students (early learning through grade 12) who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind have the opportunity to achieve the standards of academic excellence. Advocating for equal access to educational media as well as the establishment and maintenance of quality standards for captioning and description by service providers. Providing a collection of free-loan described and captioned educational media. Furnishing information and research about accessible media. Acting as a gateway to Internet resources related to accessibility. Adapting and developing new media and technologies that assist students in obtaining and using available information.

"Dhawal Shah Oct 15, 2014 Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online for free. It was started by two Stanford professors in late 2011. In less than three years it has reached 10 million students around the world and raised $85 million in venture capital. Why have VCs invested so much money in the company? How does offering free online courses generate revenue? Many have asked, so we examined Coursera's different monetization models and offer estimates based on some known numbers. "