An Open Online Course with Accessability Features

Many universities are contemplating offering online courses in an open environment.This paper describes the early experiences of massive open online courses. One such experiencewas from Galileo University in Guatemala where open online courses was offered as early as 2005.Based on this experience an...

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Main Authors: Rizzardini, R., Chang, Vanessa, Guetl, Christian, Amado-Salvatierra, H.
Other Authors: Jan Herrington
Format: Conference Paper
Published: AACE 2013
Online Access:http://www.editlib.org/p/112023
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11591
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author Rizzardini, R.
Chang, Vanessa
Guetl, Christian
Amado-Salvatierra, H.
author2 Jan Herrington
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Chang, Vanessa
Guetl, Christian
Amado-Salvatierra, H.
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description Many universities are contemplating offering online courses in an open environment.This paper describes the early experiences of massive open online courses. One such experiencewas from Galileo University in Guatemala where open online courses was offered as early as 2005.Based on this experience and responding to two major European reports, Galileo Universitydeveloped an open online course that incorporate accessibility features. What this means is that thecourse will not only teach participants to develop a website incorporating accessibility features butthe online course itself will enable participants with disabilities to participate in the course. Thissituation has motivated us to initiate research to ensure that knowledge is transferred and thelearning activities are accessible by all ‘able’ and ‘disable’ participants. This paper outlines theexperimentation setup and report on the MOOC experience. Some initial results and findings arealso discussed.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-115912023-02-07T08:01:24Z An Open Online Course with Accessability Features Rizzardini, R. Chang, Vanessa Guetl, Christian Amado-Salvatierra, H. Jan Herrington Alec Couros Valerie Irvine Many universities are contemplating offering online courses in an open environment.This paper describes the early experiences of massive open online courses. One such experiencewas from Galileo University in Guatemala where open online courses was offered as early as 2005.Based on this experience and responding to two major European reports, Galileo Universitydeveloped an open online course that incorporate accessibility features. What this means is that thecourse will not only teach participants to develop a website incorporating accessibility features butthe online course itself will enable participants with disabilities to participate in the course. Thissituation has motivated us to initiate research to ensure that knowledge is transferred and thelearning activities are accessible by all ‘able’ and ‘disable’ participants. This paper outlines theexperimentation setup and report on the MOOC experience. Some initial results and findings arealso discussed. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11591 http://www.editlib.org/p/112023 AACE restricted
spellingShingle Rizzardini, R.
Chang, Vanessa
Guetl, Christian
Amado-Salvatierra, H.
An Open Online Course with Accessability Features
title An Open Online Course with Accessability Features
title_full An Open Online Course with Accessability Features
title_fullStr An Open Online Course with Accessability Features
title_full_unstemmed An Open Online Course with Accessability Features
title_short An Open Online Course with Accessability Features
title_sort open online course with accessability features
url http://www.editlib.org/p/112023
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11591