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Federal Laws
Federal laws are those rules and principles governing the affairs of the country and enforced by the legal system. In regards to distributed education, the federal government has passed limited legislation. The government prefers to defer this responsibility to the states and accrediting bodies. Exceptions lie in specific subjects for which the federal government has passed or is currently considering legislation that affects distributed education: accessibility for the disabled, copyright law, financial aid, intellectual property, and Web site protection.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) is a section of civil-rights law that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. Section 508 (1998) requires that federal agencies' electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities. ...
- Administrative Processes
- Academic Calendar
- Administrative Leadership
- Administrative Planning and Support of Information Technology
- Admission Criteria and Processes
- Career Planning and Development
- Course Credit/Credit Transfer
- Enrollment Status
- Knowledge Management
- Library Services
- Markets/Marketing
- Online Orientation and Navigation Tools
- Operations and Management
- Orientation
- Outsourcing
- Program Evaluation
- Staffing
- Telecommuting/Teleworking
- Transcripts
- Policy, Finance, and Governance
- Social and Cultural Perspectives
- Adult Education Learning Model
- Cognitive Skills/Cognitive Development
- Corporate Training
- Cultural Access/Digital Divide
- Cultural Diversity
- Demographics
- Gender
- Globalization
- Intranet
- Knowledge Building/Knowledge Work
- Knowledge Economy
- Learning Communities
- Netiquette
- Online Universities
- Relationships
- Social Constructionism
- Social Issues
- Sociocultural Perspectives
- Sociotechnical Issues
- Virtual Communities
- World Wide Web
- Student and Faculty Issues
- Teaching and Learning Processes and Technologies
- Alternative Secondary Education
- Assessment of Prior Learning
- Assessment of Student Competence
- Café
- Case Studies
- Clinical Training
- Collaboration
- Continuing Education
- Correspondence Courses
- Critical Dialogues
- Curriculum Models
- Designing Learning Environments
- Distributed Learning/Distributed Education
- E-Learning Strategies
- Experiential Learning
- Facilitation
- Feedback
- Graduate Study
- Group Process
- Group Size
- Home Schooling
- Informatics
- Information Literacy
- Instructional Course Design
- Instructional Techniques
- Internet
- Learning Circles
- Learning Environments
- Learning Platforms
- Literature Searching
- Lurking
- MBA Online
- Medical Education
- Metacommunication
- Norms
- Online Learning
- Online Learning Environments
- Outcomes
- Pedagogy/Andragogy
- Public Television
- Residence Halls
- Scholar Practitioner Model
- Self-Directed Learning
- Skill Development
- Study Guides
- Teaching in an Electronic Classroom
- Team Teaching
- Telecourses
- Telehealth and Telemedicine
- Time Management
- Transformational Learning
- Virtual Classroom
- Work-Based Distributed Learning
- Technical Tools and Supports
- Adaptive Technology
- Asynchronous Formats
- Authoring Tools
- Browser
- Computer
- Computer Literacy
- Computer-Based Training (CBT)
- Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
- Connectivity
- Cyberspace
- Delivery Systems
- Desktop Publishing
- Document Management Systems
- Domain Name
- Electronic Journals and Publications
- ERIC: The Education Resource Information Center
- Evolving Technologies
- Graphics
- Groupware
- Hypermedia
- Hypertext
- Information Retrieval
- Information Systems
- Information Technology (IT)
- Interactive Textbook
- Internet Service Provider
- IT Security
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Learning Objects
- Learning Technology Standards
- Library Technologies
- Media
- Networks
- Programming and Scripting Languages
- Simulations
- Site Licenses
- Streaming Media
- Synchronous Formats
- Telephone Teaching
- Textual Computing
- Virtual Campus
- Virtual Learning Tools
- Viruses
- Voice Activation Programs
- Web Portals
- Web Sites
- Web-Based Course Management Systems (WBCMS)
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