California Community-College Endowment for Student Aid Nets $68-Million

August 15, 2011, 8:13 pm

A three-year campaign to establish a financial-aid endowment for community-college students in California has raised nearly $68-million, the Foundation for California Community Colleges announced today. The fund was begun in 2008 with a $25-million gift from the Bernard Osher Foundation, which contributed an additional $14.2-million in matching dollars after the colleges raised $28.5-million. About 3,400 students are expected to receive scholarships from the endowment each year.

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http://twitter.com/fleming77 Jane Fleming

Search Mozilla foundation for the Firefox Accessibility add ons, include simplified screen page for use with screen reader. Has to be learnt to function -needs sighted person’s help. Very useful if you cannot afford the propriety software.
emmadw

Following on from Jane’s comment – have you seen AccessApps – they’re Windows, rather than Mac based, but it’s a suite of accessiblity tools that are free & designed to run from a USB stick. (So, clearly you need to have a computer that’s not had the ability to run software from USB disabled)
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/eduapps/accessapps.php has more information. (The Regional Centres are closing soon, but I can’t imagine they’d let this disappear – no doubt a forwarding address will be in place. )
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“Courses” is a limiting definition. If broadened to “instructional materials, with or without self-testing and/or some proof of attendance or completion” the list becomes legion — and should include the Khan Academy and the Teaching Company, both of which offer some post K-12 material without charge to the student. Indeed, many, many of the videos on YouTube would qualify.
So I urge some attention to typology, even among the free — those that offer “course materials only” (as MIT does), those that offer “recorded lectures only” (MIT, the Teaching Company, some of Khan Academy), those that offer “certification or other proof of attendance and/or completion (MITx, Udacity), those that offer self- tests, homework, and even “final exams” (some Khan, some Udacity, some Stanford, et al.)
None of the free offerings, so far as I know, yet offer “credit” from an accredited institution, but it sounds like MITx and some others may be doing so in the near future. Here again, the point is that “courses” is not specific enough to cover the important variations in what is being offered and likely to be offered soon.

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