EASI is the Premiere Provider of Online
Training
on Accessible Information Technology for Persons with Disabilities
reaching more than 4,000 people in over 3 dozen countries since 1993
EASI intends to create a resource here for information on distance learning and students with disabilities. We have just begun. We need your help. Norman Coombs, EASI's Chair has ben doing distance teaching since the early 1980s. EASI has been delivering distance workshops over half a dozen years to some 3,000 people in over 40 countries. This is a major interest for us.
If you know of useful resources to include, texts or web urls, please use the mail link below to submit them. Thanks.
Coombs Plenary for AAHE 2000 Transcending distances and Differences.
California Community Colleges Guidelines on Distance Learning 1999
Below is a powerpoint slide presentation from a Talk given by Norman Coombs
in Mississippi in September 1999. This will be replaced with an improved slide
presentation that will be given at the FIPSE meeting Oct. 8. This may not play
with all browsers. The pagedown key should work to change slides.
Slide presentation on Distance
Learning and Disabilities
Distance Education and
Individuals with Disabilities Ron Stewart (oregon)
Audio part 1 of Stewart's
above paper
Stewart presentation audio
part 2
Using Streaming Audio and Video to Enhance Distance Learning: Banks and Coombs
Computer Access for Students with Special Needs
Norman Coombs and Joseph Kinner chapter in CMC and the Classroom edited by Zane Berge and Martha Collins, Hampton Press.
What's So Hot About Distant Learning by Norman Coombs
Using Distance Learning Technologies to Transcend Physical distances and Physical Disabilities (1988) by Norman Coombs
Please submit information for us to include by sending e-mail to Norman Coombs