[Free] Building Accessible Online Courses
Making online courses more approachable – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Build web accessibility standards into their course.
- Build a more user friendly course from the start or improve an existing course.
Requirements
- Helpful prerequisite: Have had experience in developing one or two online courses.
- Helpful prerequisite: Have knowledge of using Learning Management System found on Udemy or edX Studio.
- Helpful prerequisite: Have authored content using software and technology (text, image, audio, video, basic web development).
Description
Hello! From the first time I learned about the Open Educational Resources movement, I knew I wanted to share ways to make online courses more accessible and more approachable for students and online course developers. I also want to advocate more and shape this new technology and strategy for education, marketing and lifelong learning for the common good. This course is a volunteer effort on my part and I hope to updated it with feedback (particularly with real world how to videos). Please be patient on the updates and improvements with this FREE course.Please use the Q&A section so we can share best practices. Also, I am interested in what your experiences in taking online are. If you have suggestions on how to improve the accessibility for this course, or if you find a particular aspect of the course or activity problematic from an accessibility perspective, then please let me know at via the Question and Answer (Q&A) feature of this course.
A bit about me: I have been taking online courses since 2013 on edX, FutureLearn, Coursera, Udemy and TeamTreehouse for web design and coding. Also, I assisted a nonprofit to create three online courses used around the world. Finally, I also developed Confident Dyslexic App that uses Android accessibility settings. It has over 5,000 Android downloads around the world. I like helping people and making digital education more open.
I look forward to starting this journey with you and please let me know what you think of this course.
-Blake
Author(s): Blake Anneberg
