IDPP faculty member and Evaluation Committee Co-Chair Dr. Jennifer Ellis is invited to speak at Cengage Learning’s 18th Annual Course Technology Conference from 13–15 March 2013 in San Diego, California. Dr. Ellis will co-present with Ms. Michele Clements, Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Information Technology at the Community College of Baltimore County. Their presentation, “Increase Accessibility in Your Online Courses,” will explore how to make a cyberlearning environment accessible to all users.

Using Blackboard Learn and Collaborate as the model cyberlearning infrastructures, the session will discuss how to make synchronous and asynchronous content accessible, and offer the session’s participants the opportunity to share what steps they have taken toward making their virtual classrooms accessible.

IDPP/COTELCO Executive Director and American University (AU) Associate Professor Dr. Derrick Cogburn; Dean of AU School of Professional and Extended Studies Dr. Carola Weil; and Assistant Professor and Director of the AU ASEAN Studies Center Dr. Pek Koon Heng-Blackburn took part in a delegation of 10 U.S. universities traveling to Myanmar from 24 February – 1 March 2013 to learn more about the current state of higher education in Myanmar and explore potential partnership opportunities.