Assessing the Accessibility of Online Learning

Autor/inn/en	Badge, Joanne L.; Dawson, Emma; Cann, Alan J.; Scott, Jon
Titel	Assessing the Accessibility of Online Learning
Quelle	In: Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 45 (2008) 2, S.103-113 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-3297
Schlagwörter	Online Courses; Disabilities; Internet; Multimedia Instruction; Biological Sciences; Foreign Countries; Pilot Projects; Undergraduate Students; Assistive Technology; Learning Disabilities; Higher Education; Control Groups; Dyslexia; Visual Aids; Instructional Materials; Animation; Web Based Instruction; Comparative Analysis; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online course; Online-Kurs; Handicap; Behinderung; Multimediales Lernen; Abwasserbiologie; Ausland; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Dyslexics; Legasthenie; Lese-Rechtschreib-Schwäche; Anschauungsmaterial; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Web Based Training; Großbritannien
Abstract	A wide range of tools is now available to enable teaching practitioners to create web-based educational materials from PowerPoint presentations, adding a variety of different digital media, such as audio and animation. The pilot study described in this paper compared three different systems for producing multimedia presentations from existing PowerPoint files. The resulting resources were tested by a group of disabled students and a group of non-disabled students. Our findings show that there were statistically significant differences between the two groups in relation to their interaction with the resources. In particular, the students with disabilities were significantly more active in using the available controls to customise the running of the presentations. The data suggest that future work on why students with accessibility issues made different uses of these resources could encourage practitioners' deployment of multimedia resources for the benefit of all learners. (Contains 4 figures, 2 tables, and 1 note.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10