Posts Tagged ‘disabilities’
Add a Caption and Call It Accessible? Not so Fast!
by Alan Girelli
March 18, 2013
NEJHE on Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
MOOCs claim to make education accessible to everyone, but institutions offering MOOCs have yet to define best practices for accessible design. For many, universal design efforts end when course video material has been captioned. Captioning is important, but the idea that you can just caption course video ...
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Holistic Support that Promotes Student Learning
by Sophie Lampard Dennis and Dorothy A. Osterholt
September 12, 2011
For decades. the cost of serving college students, from community colleges to Ivy League institutions, has been a barrier that has blocked access for many who want an education. With a recent massification effort aimed at producing more college graduates for the workplace, the enrollment numbers have increased and student debt load has become a ...
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MOOCs: When Opening Doors to Education, Institutions Must Ensure that People with Disabilities Have Equal Access
by Nicholas Anastasopoulos and Amanda Marie Baer
July 22, 2013
Massive Open Online Courses (“MOOCs”) are free online courses offered by institutions of higher education to individuals across the world, without any admissions criteria. Through web-based courses hosted by MOOC platforms such as Coursera or edX, student-participants learn by accessing media, including documents, pictures and uploaded lectures on the course website.
While MOOCs may make access ...
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