E-Learning Council

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) recently released a tome (500+ pages of text) entitled Education in a Digital World.  You can download parts or the entire book for free.

Written by experts from around the world, this comprehensive collection offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.

 

It has five parts:

Part 1: The Impact of Instructional Technologies

Part 2: Preparing Online Courses

Part 3: Implementing Technology

Part 4: E-learning in Action

Part 5: Engagement and Communication

 

The first five pages of the book has a synopsis of every chapter so you can check out sections before deciding what, if anything, you want to download.

 

 

 

 

Adobe has created a screen reader user’s guide for accessing PDF documents with assistive technology. The document was created in collaboration with AFB Consulting, the consulting division of the American Foundation for the Blind. The guide includes:

• Information about accessible PDF documents   
• Adobe  Reader accessibility features  
• Types  of PDF files  
• Detailed information on using JAWS and Window-Eyes in  a Windows-based environment  
• How  to perform common tasks with a screen reader  
• How  to navigate PDF documents

The 30-page guide can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/reader/.

via Robert Doyal, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (Peso List)