Online Learning Update

September 28, 2016

Because of the ADA, Universities May Withdraw Free Online Course Content

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By WALTER OLSON, CATO Institute

On September 13, the University of California at Berkeley announced that it may have to take down online lecture and course content that it has offered free to the public: content that we have made available to the public. That Berkeley is not just imagining these legal dangers is illustrated by this clip from Tamar Lewin of the New York Times from February of last year: “Harvard and M.I.T. Are Sued Over Lack of Closed Captions.” I’ve been warning about this, to no apparent avail, for a long time. I noted the tag-team alliance of the U.S. Department of Justice, disabled-rights groups, and fee-seeking private lawyers in gearing up web-accessibility doctrine.

http://www.cato.org/blog/because-ada-universities-may-withdraw-free-online-course-content

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