[Athen] Fwd: Call for Papers: Accessible E-Learning - Online Symposium

[Jennifer Sutton]

Dear ATHEN List members:

I thought some of you might be interested in this recent call for 
papers about elearning research, posted to the WAI-IG email list.

Best,
Jennifer

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:04:23 -0500

>From: Shawn Henry <shawn at w3.org>

>Subject: Call for Papers: Accessible E-Learning - Online Symposium

>Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

>

>The W3C WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) invites 

>you to share your experiences with accessible e-learning for an 

>online symposium to be conducted on 16 December 2013. See:

>        Accessible E-Learning Online Symposium

>        http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/e-learning/

>

>The primary objective of this symposium is to share e-learning 

>experiences and research; discuss different approaches to address 

>accessibility issues in e-learning contexts; and explore next steps 

>to advance accessibility in e-learning environments, including 

>Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). In particular, the objective is 

>to investigate:

>* Relationships and integration between content accessibility and 

>interface accessibility.

>* Evaluating accessibility of e-learning environments.

>* Accessibility of e-learning environments used in non-conventional 

>contexts and/or by means of non-conventional devices (i.e. 

>m-learning, t-learning).

>* Privacy issues in profiling learners and e-learning environments users.

>* Experiences and examples of accessible MOOCs.

>* Comparisons and analysis of e-learning standards related to accessibility.

>* Experiences and examples of standards implementations in 

>e-learning environments.

>* Different standards, compliance and integration.

>

>RDWG Symposia bring together researchers, practitioners, and users 

>with disabilities interested in a particular aspect of web 

>accessibility to advance research and development in that area. The 

>online symposia include a panel with the authors of accepted papers, 

>and provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions. 

>Symposia proceedings, transcript, and a report are available 

>publicly online afterward.

>

>*If you are interested in contributing to this Symposium*, please 

>submit your paper by:

>        *15 November 2013*

>via the instructions at:

>        http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/e-learning/cfp.html

>

>---

>

>Background on RDWG:

>The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) helps:

>- increase accessibility considerations in research on web 

>technologies, including mainstream research,

>- suggest research questions that may contribute to web 

>accessibility research projects,

>- inform development of web accessibility solutions,

>- decrease the number of potential barriers in future web-related 

>technologies.

>For links to an FAQ with more information and a wiki that includes 

>potential topics for future symposia, see the RDWG home page 

><http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/>

>We welcome your ideas on this topic and your ideas for future RDWG 

>work. Please send comments to the publicly-archived mailing list: 

>public-wai-rd at w3.org

>

>This Symposium is developed with support of the EC-funded WAI-ACT 

>Project (IST 287725) described at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ACT/

>

>If you have any questions, contact Shadi Abou-Zahra: shadi at w3.org

>

>Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid 

>cross-postings where possible.

>Short URI to this archived e-mail: http://bit.ly/RDe-learn1

>

>Regards,

>Shawn Lawton Henry, WAI Outreach

>Simon Harper, RDWG Co-Chair

>Shadi Abou-Zahra, RDWG W3C Staff Contact

>

>

>

>

>-----

>Shawn Lawton Henry

>W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

>e-mail: shawn at w3.org

>phone: +1.617.395.7664

>about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

>