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Inspired by the work and life of Dr. John Slatin, an accessibility movement developed on the University of Texas at Austin campus

ACCESS-ed: Promoting Universal Design in Higher Education

MAGpie (Media Access Generator) free caption- and audio-description authoring tool for making multimedia accessible to persons with sensory disabilities. 

Great video resource providing information about disability and accessibility.

web accessibility tool that ensures both static and dynamic content 

The Closed Captioning Handbook covers everything you need to know about closed captioning, including digital television, DVD subtitling, Web site accessibility, and troubleshooting for both consumer and professional captioning equipment.

Easily create ebooks for any device, webbooks for accessibility and promotion, and PDFs for printbooks and print-on-demand. Use our distribution services to get your books into Kindle, Apple iBooks, Nook and other retailers - or do it yourself. PressBooks is built on WordPress, so it's as easy as blogging.

As we continue to discuss important issues such as access, affordability, and personalized learning in higher education, we would be helped by having a richer understanding of the changes that are already occurring. I would like to offer a more descriptive view to capture the growing number of approaches enabled by educational technology. The following is certainly not exhaustive, since the field is rapidly changing. In addition, not all of these models will end up thriving in the long term. My intention is simply to describe some of the primary models and ideally to reduce some of the confusion evident in public discussions.

"Exploring the benefits of Open Educational Resources for media education. Coventry Open Media Classes is a JISC funded project giving open access to educational resources, networks of subject specialists, professional practitioners and learning communities"

AU Press is the centre of scholarly publishing expertise for Athabasca University, Canada's Open University. It is the first scholarly press to be established by a Canadian university in the twenty-first century. We are dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge and research through open access digital journals and monographs, as well as through new electronic media.

"Traditional educators, classrooms, and brick-and-mortar schools are no longer necessary to access information. Instead, things like blogs and wikis, as well as remote collaborations and an emphasis on 'critical thinking' skills are the coins of the realm in this new kingdom. Yet the national dialogue on education reform focuses on using technology to update the traditional education model, failing to reassess the fundamental design on which it is built. In 'Why School?,' educator, author, parent and blogger Will Richardson challenges traditional thinking about education - questioning whether it still holds value in its current form. How can schools adjust to this new age? Or students? Or parents? In this provocative read, Richardson provides an in-depth look at how connected educators are beginning to change their classroom practice. Ultimately, 'Why School?' serves as a starting point for the important conversations around real school reforms that must ensue, offering a bold plan for rethinking how we teach our kids, and the consequences if we don't."

Class2Go is Stanford's internal platform for on-line courses. Class2Go is intended to be an open platform for learning and research. Professors will have direct access to the data for their classes to learn how their students learn. We will facilitate experiments. This could be A/B/N testing of how different things affect student learning, or even bespoke code to try out interesting new features.

By: Terry Anderson

"Interactivity isnot easy--indeed, it shouldn't be easy--but that it is what the university should both practice and teach"

A Checklist for Inclusive Teaching

Practical Advice on How to Learn and What to Learn