Paper Info
Title
Web accessibility of MOOCs for elderly students
Abstract
Internet use by older people has increased dramatically during the past 10 years. According to different sources, the number of users over age 65 has more than doubled since 2000. Besides, the inevitable effect of younger users aging will increase the number of older people using the Internet the next decades. Unfortunately, older people face several challenges when using the web due to diminishing capacities related to aging, such as vision decline, hearing loss, decremented motor skills and cognition issues. On the other hand, e-learning can be an opportunity in helping older people become integrated with the rest of society. In this context, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) bring great opportunities to enhance the quality of life of older people by enabling lifelong learning and inclusion in learning communities. However, MOOCs can present some barriers that could hamper full participation by elderly students. In order to avoid these barriers, MOOCs have to meet different user needs, skills and situations: MOOCs have to successfully address web accessibility challenges for elderly students. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness towards a better understanding of the web accessibility challenges that elderly students of MOOCs face.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671024
ITHET
Keywords
Field
DocType
public domain software,older users,web accessibility,massive open online course,mooc,educational courses,learning communities,coursera,older people,internet,massive open online courses,world-wide web consortium,elderly students,e-learning,elderly people,younger users,computer aided instruction,aging users,open,old,web,accessibility,elearning
Computer aided instruction,Computer science,World Wide Web Consortium,Massive open online course,Lifelong learning,Cognition,Web accessibility,Multimedia,Learning community,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2380-1603
9
0.92
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandra Sanchez-Gordon1357.40
Sergio Luján-mora242447.92