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What You Need to Know About the New 508 Compliance Rules

eLearning Brothers

This rule updated the Section 508 standards and Section 255 guidelines in response to market trends and innovations and aligned Sections 508 and 255 with other standards both in the U.S. There’s a “safe harbor” clause for legacy content. This means videos need closed captions, making sure images have alt text, and so on.

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Safeguarding Your Virtual Education Sphere

BrainCert

It stands for the Safe Harbor Online Compliance Statement for Social Networks and is developed by the US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). With the ever-growing trend of data breaches, it's important that your data is protected from unauthorized access.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Safe Harbor Statements - Clearly mark pages that are controlled and approved vs. those that are not. eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0 Then, maybe open it up to subject matter experts. Then to the help desk. Then maybe to end users / learners. You can also limit what pages can be changed.

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