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Explore the website of any school, and you will undoubtedly find a page dedicated to their Mission and Vision. Here you will find carefully crafted statements of purpose couched in the vocabulary of educational excellence and reflecting the pinnacle of human possibility. A blend of educational philosophy and marketing speak designed to promote student achievement and enrolments. The question is, to what degree does the lived experience of the typical student align with the stated purposes? Does the product do what it says on the tin?

Adoption, use and management of open educational resources to enhance teaching and learning in Australia - list of resources

The Final project report is now available on the OLT website: http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/CG10_1687_Bossu_Report_2014.pdf This and another project deliverable can be found here: http://www.olt.gov.au/project-adoption-use-and-management-open-educational-resources-enhance-teaching-and-learning-austral

some great resources on this website (Centre for Research on Learning and Teaching - including flipped classrooom, learning analytics, inclusive practices etc

Add voice reader of page content to your web page. How could this be used and not be distraction. Beyond accessibility?

Better late than never as I have just joined this group. ReadSpeaker provides text to speech (TTS) engines for websites and iOS and Android apps which combine text reading with word by word text highlighting on any end user hardware. The service has a growing range of early Australian adopters including Centrelink, Comcare, Dept of Health and Ageing, Dept of Human Services, FAHCSIA, and the Australian Paralympic Committee. In elearning, adopters include Gale and Cengage. I would be happy to provide information to interested elearning professionals and I can be reached on richard.ings@readspeaker.com.

A fully accessible W3C WCAG 2 AA rating All about accessible education

An excellent example of an accessible website in action AND it is education focussed.