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<b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 27, 65);">NSF funds project to improve online learning for students with disabilities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<img width="103" height="76" src="http://www.washington.edu/uwit/image/intech/student-online-disab.jpg" align="left" hspace="10" alt="http://www.washington.edu/uwit/image/intech/student-online-disab.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_5"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 27, 65);">The
National Science Foundation approved $100,000 for UW-IT’s<a href="http://www.washington.edu/uwit/divisions/as/at/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">Accessible Technology</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(AT) unit
for a two-year “AccessCyberlearning” project, which seeks to make online learning more inclusive to students with disabilities. The project is administered through AT's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.uw.edu/doit" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">DO-IT
Center</a>. Among its aims, AccessCyberlearning will increase the capacity of current and future NSF-funded cyberlearning projects to inform their research with what is known about student differences and disabilities and allow for the design of innovative
learning technologies and teaching strategies that are welcoming to, accessible to, and usable by everyone.<a href="https://www.washington.edu/intech/hr/people/contacts/view.php?lname=Burgstahler&fname=Sheryl" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">Sheryl
Burgstahler</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the Principal Investigator and Director of AccessCyberlearning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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