REPLAY: EASI SELECTS THE BEST FROM THE PAST
Highlights from Information Technology and Disabilities E-journal
Volume 1, Issue 2 
Oct. 2002
Replay Editor: Penny Gray, Adaptive Technology Specialist
Bucks County community college
Editing is done using Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

The ITD e-journal has provided quality, peer-reviewed articles on
disabilities and information for nearly a decade.  Many articles are too
good to be lost, and EASI wants to connect you with this quality resource.  

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Selected Articles on Distance Learning

Inside This Issue:
        1.  April, 1999: Enhancing Web Instruction: Using Streaming Audio And        Video
        2.  April 2001: Online Distance Education-"Anytime, Anywhere" But Not   for
Everyone
        3.  January 2002: Universal Design of Distance Learning
        4.  January 2002: The Design of Accessible Distance Education
Environments That Use Collaborative Learning
        5.  January 2002: Distance Learning and Disability: A View from the
Instructors Side of the Virtual Lectern

April, 1999:
Enhancing Web Instruction: Using Streaming Audio And Video
Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
Richard Banks

This presentation has four main objectives:
To demonstrate how to use streaming audio and video.
To demonstrate how this technology enriches instruction.
To demonstrate how audio and video can motivate K-12 and college students
To demonstrate how to make instruction using audio and video fully
        accessible to students with physical and cognitive disabilities.

http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv06n1/article6.html

April, 2001
ONLINE DISTANCE EDUCATION - "ANYTIME, ANYWHERE" BUT NOT FOR EVERYONE
Axel Schmetzke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Library
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

With the tremendous growth of online distance education programs, it is
easily forgotten that the concept of learning "anytime anywhere" is not a
new one. Distance learning, in form of correspondence or home study,
reaches back over 250 years in this country (Valore and Diehl, 1987: 2).
The first formal recognition of home study occurred in 1883, when the State
of New York authorized the Chautauqua Institute to award degrees earned
through correspondence (Valore and Diehl: 2). That there was, next to
economic and social demands arising from the advancing industrialization, a
concomitant democratic-egalitarian sentiment behind the drive for distance
learning found its expression perhaps most clearly in the "Wisconsin idea"
and the creation of the University of Wisconsin Extension.

http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv07n2/axel.htm
 
January, 2002
UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF DISTANCE LEARNING
Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D.
University of Washington

Distance learning has been around for a long time. For hundreds of years
instructors have taught students across great distances via correspondence
courses using printed materials. The early days of television witnessed the
introduction of televised courses. Today, in a specially equipped facility,
an instructor can teach several classrooms full of students brought
together through interactive television. Early on-line courses using
electronic mail were rapidly followed by Web-based instruction. Today, the
lines are blurred between different types of distance learning courses as
multiple modes of delivery are employed in a single course. For example, a
class "library" could be a Web site; class discussions could take place
using electronic mail; some course content could be delivered using printed
materials and television; and the final activity could be a place-bound
proctored exam. 

http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv08n1/burgstahler.htm

January, 2002:
THE DESIGN OF ACCESSIBLE DISTANCE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTS
THAT USE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
Katarina T. Schenker 
Doctoral Student in Education, Malmö University
Lawrence A. Scadden, Ph.D.
Research Mentor, Malmö University

The use of information technology in education is proliferating throughout
the world, both in traditional classroom environments and in distance
education using the World Wide Web. It is assumed that new technology
enhances opportunities for disabled students in higher education. Adequate
research data are, however, needed to assess the effectiveness of
technology for enhancing learning and to demonstrate how people who have
been marginalized by social, economic, and physical situations best use the
technology.

http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv08n1/schenker_scadden.htm

January 2002
DISTANCE LEARNING AND DISABILITY:
A VIEW FROM THE INSTRUCTOR'S SIDE OF THE VIRTUAL LECTERN
G. Denise Lance, Ph.D. 

As students enter my online classroom on inclusion, I ask them to introduce
themselves, sharing their current positions, teaching experience, whether
they have taken other online courses, and any experiences they may have had
with individuals with disabilities. The biggest challenge for me is whether
or not to tell my students at the onset that I have cerebral palsy. 

http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv08n1/lance.htm

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Nov. 4 2002 Online Course: Barrier-free E-learning, instructor-led,
month-long http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
Nov. 4 2002 Online Course: Accessible Internet Multimedia, instructor-led,
month-long http://easi.cc/workshops/mmedia.htm

Earn EASI's Certificate in Accessible Information Technology
EASI is partnering with the University of Southern Maine to provide a 
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Barrier-free E-learning: Nov. 4, Feb. 3, May 5 
Learning Disabilities and Information Technology: Dec. 2, Mar. 3, June 2 
Accessible Internet Multimedia: Nov. 4, Feb. 3, May 5 
Train the Trainer: Jan. 6, April 7 
Business Benefits of Accessible Information Technology: Date to be announced 

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