Accessibility strategies for making MOOCs for people with visual impairments: A universal design for learning (UDL) perspective
Published | November 2016 |
Conference | Commonwealth of Learning (COL) |
Publisher | Pan-Commonwealth Forum 8 (PCF8) |
Country | Canada, North America |
ABSTRACT
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were designed to enhance access to education to all that desire it. The open access drive seeks to promote free and equitable access to basic, higher, formal and informal education. The main aim of MOOCs is to de-institutionalize education moving it from the formalized class to the open platform where there are no admission requirements. The second aim of MOOCs is to provide access to lifelong learning for those who want to learn for the sake of knowing and developing their competencies. The objective of this document analysis based paper is to analyze primary qualitative-research academic sources dealing with strategies to make MOOCs accessible to people with visual impairments. This paper uses Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles as a lens through which accessibility of MOOCs to people with visual impairments is examined. The document analysis involved a careful examination of research methodologies that had been used to gather data. Fifteen academic sources were sought through formidable search engines. Specified inclusion and exclusion criteria were used to select the articles that were analyzed to answer the research question: What accessibility strategies can be employed to make MOOCs accessible to people with visual impairments? Lastly, recommendations are made towards making MOOCs more accessible for people with visual impairmentsKeywords | accessibility · disability · inclusion · MOOCs · universal design for learning · visual disabilities |
Published at | Burnaby, British Columbia |
Refereed | Yes |
Rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/11599/2561 |
Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
AVAILABLE FILES
Viewed by 133 distinct readers
CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS
The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.










Click a star to be the first to rate this document
▶ POST A COMMENT
SIMILAR RECORDS
Accessibility in MOOCs: The current state and next steps
Iniesto, Francisco
An effective open eLearning environment should take into account each learner?s abilities, learning goals, where learning takes place, and which specific devices the learner uses. Technologies used in Massive Open ...
Match: accessibility
BC open textbook accessibility toolkit
Coolidge, Amanda; Doner, Sue; Robertson, Tara
The Accessibility Toolkit is a collaboration between BCcampus and CAPER-BC. The goal of the Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the resources needed so that each content creator, instructional designer, educational ...
Match: accessibility; north america
Accessibility of MOOCs: Understanding the provider perspective
Iniesto, Francisco; McAndrew, Patrick; Minocha, Shailey; Coughlan, Tim
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have become an accepted way to make learning opportunities available at large scale and with low cost to the learner. However, only if these are made accessible will they be able to ...
Match: accessibility
Accessibility of Open Educational Resources: how well are they suited for English learners?
Rets, Irina; Coughlan, Tim; Stickler, Ursula; Astruc, Lluisa
Open Educational Resources aim to offer learning to all, yet the language level used in resources could be a barrier to many potential learners. This paper examines the readability of 200 OER courses in English from two ...
Match: accessibility
Guidelines for accessible information: ICT for information accessibility in learning (ICT4IAL)
Turner-Cmuchal, Marcella
The Guidelines for accessible information are an open educational resource (OER) to support the creation of accessible information in general and for learning in particular. These Guidelines do not aim to contain all ...
Match: accessibility
MOOCS: What The Open University research tells us
Ferguson, Rebecca; Coughlan, Tim; Herodotou, Christothea
This quality enhancement report recommends priority areas for university activity in relation to massive open online courses (MOOCs). It does this by bringing together all The Open University’s published research work ...
Match: accessibility; moocs
Open educational resources and open education
Mossley, David
This toolkit explores open educational resources (OER) and some aspects of open educational practice. It is designed for those new to teaching and those new to open approaches to resources who may be more generally ...
Match: moocs
Special report on the role of open educational resources in supporting the sustainable development goal 4: Quality education challenges and opportunities
McGreal, Rory
Match: moocs; canada; north america
The influence of national culture on educational videos: The case of MOOCs
Bayeck, Rebecca; Choi, Jinhee
This paper discusses the influence of cultural dimensions on Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) introductory videos. The study examined the introductory videos produced by three universities on Coursera platforms using ...
Match: moocs; canada; north america
Mobile and accessible learning for MOOCs
Sharples, Mike; Kloos, Carlos Delgado; Dimitriadis, Yannis; Garlatti, Serge; Specht, Marcus
Many modern web-based systems provide a ‘responsive’ design that allows material and services to be accessed on mobile and desktop devices, with the aim of providing ubiquitous access. Besides offering access to ...
Match: accessibility; moocs