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How to Make Online Learning Accessible

June 29, 2015

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"Members of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education cannot agree on how to ensure that online learning is accessible to the broadest spectrum of learners, and whether the lack of the proper environment represents a denial of a student’s legal right to a free and appropriate education.

We’d better figure these things out. A recent ruling by the United States Department of Justice charged that edX, one of the largest provider of MOOCs in the world, is 'not accessible to would-be students who were blind, deaf or had other physical disabilities.' They are working to address this ruling."

Read more at edSurge