Topic: OTHER BUSINESS -- LAAP partnership
Conf: Inaugural Directors' Meeting

From: Steve McCarty (steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 09:14 AM

Turning to OTHER BUSINESS, regarding the agenda item of a LAAP partnership for research and dissemination to assist the visually impaired in gaining better access to online education, is there any explanation,discussion or motions on this topic?
 

From: David Wyatt (dwyatt@camtech.net.au)
Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 09:23 PM

Report on LAAP Grant Proposal
I am pleased to report to the Directors that a preliminary proposal for a Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnership grant has been submitted by the required deadline. The project is entitled: Barrier-Free Learning: Improving Access to Online Education for the Visually Impaired. The following is an abstract of the submission:
The explosion of online learning in post-secondary and continuing education presents great opportunities, as well as barriers, to visually impaired learners. Online course developers, universities, and professionals who educate the visually impaired combine forces to compile a list of guidelines and make available a non-proprietary model for use in development and delivery of online learning systems with maximum accessibility for all students.
The project, if funded, will involve a partnership between the Texas Commission for the Blind (the legal applicant or official leader), MicroAssist (a software development and training company based in Texas), the World Association of Online Education and the Virginia Commonwealth University. It will take about 2.5 to 3 years. WAOE is committed to providing in-kind support to the equivalent of $US15,000 in total, and will therefore claim an equal amount as its share of the grant, since LAAP operates on a 50:50 cost share basis.
The next step in grant process is short-listing by LAAP reviewers. Short-listed partnerships will then be asked to submit much more detailed proposals, assisted by LAAP officers. I believe the final deadline will fall during June 1999.
I will provide further details to the Coordinating Ring, and place a summary in the next issue of the WAOE Electronic Bulletin.
 
I move that it be:
RESOLVED that the report on the LAAP Grant Proposal be accepted.
Is there a second?

David Wyatt, Director: World Association for Online Education
Adelaide, South Australia

From: Jenna Seehafer (seehafer@csus.edu)
Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 03:20 AM

Thank you David for the LAAP report and all of the work you are putting into this project as the WAOE representative.
I assume you mean by "accepted"
RESOLVED that the report on the LAAP Grant Proposal be
accepted in the minutes of this meeting.
I second it. Is there further discussion?

From: Mihkel Pilv (info@miksike.ee)
Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 06:23 AM

I agree with above said and have no opinions on this matter
Mihkel Pilv
Director, World Association for Online Education
Vice- President, World Association for Online Education
Tartu, Estonia, Europe

From: David Wyatt (dwyatt@camtech.net.au)
Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 10:34 PM

Thank you, Jenna. Yes, I did mean that the report on the LAAP grant proposal should be incorporated in the minutes of this meeting. So I accept the additional words you propose. The motion now before us on this matter, as moved by me and seconded by Jenna, reads:
RESOLVED that the report on the LAAP Grant Proposal be accepted in the minutes of this meeting.
Is there any further discussion?

David Wyatt, Director: World Association for Online Education
Adelaide, South Australia

From: Steve McCarty (steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 01:29 AM

Eligible directors please vote whether or not to affirm this report by voting on the motion following the report. Note the correction World Association "for" (not "of") Online Education to the text by Director David Wyatt.
Report on LAAP Grant Proposal
"I am pleased to report to the Directors that a preliminary proposal for a Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnership grant has been submitted by the required deadline. The project is entitled: Barrier-Free Learning: Improving Access to Online Education for the Visually Impaired. The following is an abstract of the submission:
The explosion of online learning in post-secondary and continuing education presents great opportunities, as well as barriers, to visually impaired learners. Online course developers, universities, and professionals who educate the visually impaired combine forces to compile a list of guidelines and make available a non-proprietary model for use in development and delivery of online learning systems with maximum accessibility for all students.
The project, if funded, will involve a partnership between the Texas Commission for the Blind (the legal applicant or official leader), MicroAssist (a software development and training company based in Texas), the World Association for Online Education and the Virginia Commonwealth University. It will take about 2.5 to 3 years. WAOE is committed to providing in-kind support to the equivalent of $US15,000 in total, and will therefore claim an equal amount as its share of the grant, since LAAP operates on a 50:50 cost share basis.
The next step in grant process is short-listing by LAAP reviewers. Short-listed partnerships will then be asked to submit much more detailed proposals, assisted by LAAP officers. I believe the final deadline will fall during June 1999.
I will provide further details to the Coordinating Ring, and place a summary in the next issue of the WAOE Electronic Bulletin."
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"RESOLVED that the report on the LAAP Grant Proposal be
accepted in the minutes of this meeting."

Steve McCarty, Chair

From: Jenna Seehafer (seehafer@csus.edu)
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 02:06 AM

I am in favor of the motion to include the LAAP report from David Wyatt in the minutes of this meeting.

From: David Wyatt (dwyatt@camtech.net.au)
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 12:12 PM

I support the motion to include the LAAP report from David Wyatt in the minutes of this meeting.

David Wyatt, Director: World Association for Online Education
Adelaide, South Australia

From: Brian Donohue-Lynch (qv_blynch@apollo.commnet.edu)
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 12:27 PM

In favor of including the LAAP report in the minutes.

Brian Donohue-Lynch
Executive Secretary: WAOE
Danielson, CT

From: Mihkel Pilv (info@miksike.ee)
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 01:53 PM

I support the motion to include the LAAP report from David Wyatt in the minutes of this meeting.

Mihkel Pilv
Vice-President, WAOE

From: Steve McCarty (steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 10:51 PM

The motion passes unanimously, 4-0.
Special thanks to David Wyatt in Australia for representing WAOE in the U.S.-based partnership.

Steve McCarty
Director, World Association for Online Education
President, World Association for Online Education
Kokubunji, Kagawa, Japan