[Athen] MOOCS and the ADA

[Laurie Vasquez]

FYI -


edX to Improve Access to MOOCs for People With Disabilities (CHE)April 3,
2015Posted by Ryan C. Fowler under Online Education Forum
<http://wp.chs.harvard.edu/sunoikisis/category/online-ed-forum/>


Under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice announced
<http://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/united-states-reaches-settlement-provider-massive-open-online-courses-make-its-content>
on
Thursday, edX, the nonprofit MOOC provider created by Harvard University
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has agreed to make its
offerings more accessible to people with disabilities.
<https://www.edx.org/press/edx-commits-accessibility-individuals>

The settlement agreement,
<http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/04/02/edx_settlement_agreement.pdf>
which
marks the department’s first effort to challenge the accessibility of
massive open online courses, affects the colleges that are members of edX
as well as the nonprofit consortium itself.


http://www.ada.gov/edx_sa.htm

http://wp.chs.harvard.edu/sunoikisis/2015/04/03/edx-to-improve-access-to-moocs-for-people-with-disabilities-che/
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