Paper Info
Title
How Could MOOCs Become Accessible? The Case of edX and the Future of Inclusive Online Learning.
Abstract
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have great potential to provide learning opportunities for people around the world. However, to reach their full potential, MOOCs need to meet the accessibility needs of diverse learners, with and without disabilities. In the literature review, we have found some published research on accessibility evaluations of MOOCs content and platforms, but we have not found published research on how to design existing and future MOOC platforms to assist authors in producing accessible content. The main purpose of this research is to contribute to the discussion about the future of inclusive online learning, by proposing a software design to incorporate features in MOOC platforms to enable, support and guide authors toward conceptualizing, designing, building and testing accessible MOOCs. We also present the results of an evaluation of the accessibility issues of Studio, the edX course-authoring software, based on ATAG 2.0.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
MOOC,Massive Open Online Courses,disabilities,accessibility,WCAG,ATAG,UAAG,WCAG-EM,WGAC2ICT,online learning,mobile learning,accessibility conformance evaluation,edX
Field
DocType
Volume
Online learning,World Wide Web,Computer science,Government
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0948-695X
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandra Sanchez-Gordon1357.40
Sergio Luján-mora242447.92