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8 FREE Resources for Learning About Accessibility

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Understanding Docs Description from website: Understanding documents provide detailed explanations for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) guidelines and success criteria. The site also provides training videos including ones focused on creating accessible Word documents, PDFs, PowerPoints, spreadsheets. federal government.

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Deep learning

Learning with e's

This week I read an article that documented the recent partnership between futurist Ray Kurzweil and Google''s Larry Page. As the ''machine'' is programmed, and supplied with vast amounts of connections at multiple layers of processing, and is exposed to massive amounts of stimulus material, it begins to ''think'' and ''perceive'' for itself.

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Verizon Snafu Underscores Importance of Security in Training

Mindflash

Fact is, this is a common-enough problem, and there are a few tools your company can consider implementing to avoid this sort of gaffe. Content Management Systems : CMS facilitates data sharing while controlling who can access what documents. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Robert Scoble.

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Try Teaching Science at a Distance

E-Learning Acupuncture

This issue has one particular book that is available in PDF format by a Creative Commons License: Accessible elements - Teaching science online and at a distance edited by Dietmar Kennpohl and Lawton Shaw of Athabasca University. This is all fantastic and relevant material to colleges and universities today.

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

Performance Learning Productivity

We measure how many people have attended a class or completed an eLearning module, or read a document or engaged in a job swap or in a coaching relationship. First, it does show small positive effects in the largest of workplaces, although diversity councils, diversity managers, and mentoring programs are significantly more effective.

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What is an LMS?

Mindflash

Learning Management Systems Allow Powerful Training Programs to be Delivered on the Go. There is no standard industry definition or published standard defining the components of an LMS, but several features are common: Creation of class rosters, control over registration processes, and the ability to create waiting lists.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Yet More Buzz on Buzzword

Learning Visions

the web apps status quo is set to change with the arrival of Buzzword , an office-caliber document editor with a visually rich user interface. And in a few months, when a desktop version is released, Buzzword will pose a serious challenge to Microsoft Word, the current king of document editing on the desktop. United States License.