This ar ticle discusses the development, delivery and evaluation of an electronic extramural course, `Fundamentals of Clinical Tr ials’ , a CME course designed to reach physicians and health care researchers without easy access to a local university. Ten week-long modules of instruction were developed.These were based on a graduate course in clinical tr ials, standard textbook topics and additi...

Purpose – Using Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, higher education web sites were retrospectively analyzed to study the effects that technological advances in web design have had on accessibility for persons with disabilities. Design/methodology/approach – A convenience sample of higher education web sites was studied for years 1997-2002. The homepage and pages 1-level down were evaluated. We...

BACKGROUND The existence of socioeconomic differences in dietary behaviors is well documented. However, studies exploring the mechanisms behind these differences among adolescents using comprehensive and reliable measures of mediators are lacking. The aims of this study were (a) to assess the psychometric properties of new scales assessing the perceived rules and accessibility related to the co...

Introduction to Accessible Education [2] Developing Courses [3] Writing a Course Syllabus [4] Creating Accessible Lectures [5] Using PowerPoint [6] Using Word Documents and/or PDFs [7] Microsoft Word Accessibility Video pt 1 [8] Microsoft Word Accessibility Video pt 2 [9] Evaluating Students and Giving Feedback [10] Using Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2010 Accessibility Video [11] Microsoft...

Introduction to Accessible Education [2] Developing Courses [3] Writing a Course Syllabus [4] Creating Accessible Lectures [5] Using PowerPoint [6] Using Word Documents and/or PDFs [7] Microsoft Word Accessibility Video pt 1 [8] Microsoft Word Accessibility Video pt 2 [9] Evaluating Students and Giving Feedback [10] Using Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2010 Accessibility Video [11] Microsoft...

Introduction to Accessible Education [2] Developing Courses [3] Writing a Course Syllabus [4] Creating Accessible Lectures [5] Using PowerPoint [6] Using Word Documents and/or PDFs [7] Microsoft Word Accessibility Video pt 1 [8] Microsoft Word Accessibility Video pt 2 [9] Evaluating Students and Giving Feedback [10] Using Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2010 Accessibility Video [11] Microsoft...

At a time when the demand for people with expertise in chemoinformatics is increasing, there is still only a very small number of academic institutions that offer chemoinformatics-related classes and degrees. The distance education (DE) approach allows both learning and research to be carried out at multiple geographic locations and institutions, thus leveraging the few educational offerings th...