About the Editor and Contributors

Dr. Sheryl Burgstahler directs project DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) at the University of Washington. DO-IT promotes the success of students with disabilities in postsecondary programs and careers. It sponsors projects that increase the use of assistive technology and promote the development of accessible facilities, computer labs, electronic resources in libraries, Web pages, educational multi-media, and Internet-based distance learning programs. Dr. Burgstahler is Co-Director of the National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education (AccessIT). This Center, funded by the National Institute on Rehabilitation Research of the U.S. Department of Education, coordinates a nationwide effort to assist educational institutions in making education-based information technology (IT) accessible to all students and employees, including those with disabilities.

Dr. Burgstahler has published dozens of articles and delivered presentations at national and international conferences that focus on the full inclusion of individuals with disabilities in postsecondary education, distance learning, work-based learning, and electronic communities. She is the author or co-author of six books on using the Internet with pre-college students. Dr. Burgstahler has extensive experience teaching at the pre-college, community college, and university levels. She is Assistant Director of Information Systems and Affiliate Associate Professor in Education at the University of Washington. More about Dr. Burgstahler can be found on her Web site at http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb/.

A team of professionals, representing postsecondary institutions from twenty-three states in the United States, met in two collaborative meetings and helped develop and test the professional development content and strategies included in these train-the-trainer materials. Their continuous involvement in this three-year project assured that project products have applicability nationwide.

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