EASI's Weekly Webcast is a presentation by EASI's Norman Coombs a
presentation from the CSUN conference March 2000sharing his decade-plus
experience on distance learning and students with disabilities:
http://www.rit.edu/~easi and either pick the webcast link or the site index
link both of which will take you to the audio.  During the past year the
number of colleges and universities offering one or more courses via
distance learning technologies has exploded from some 30% to more than 75%

People interested in this topic will also want to learn more about making
web sites more accessible to students and professionals with disabilities.
EASI's next Barrier-free Web Design Workshop begins online September 4 and
runs for four weeks:
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops/easiweb.htm