Evaluación de técnicas de producción accesible en cursos masivos, abiertos y en línea - MOOC

Abstract

Virtual education plays an important role in the improvement of accessibility, relevance and quality in education, thanks to the characteristics of the means on which it is based, that reaks time and space barriers, enabling students and teachers to set their interests, rhythms and study sites, among others. This methodology has an impact on the cycle of continuing education (lifelong learning), concept which groups the formal and informal education.However, the implementation of online training strategies is not inclusive by default. The accessible virtual education requires challenges in the design and production of digital virtual environment of learning (user interfaces and contents).According the questions: “The educational resources and teaching medias used in MOOC are friendly to the population disabling condition?”, this article evaluates a range of Colombian MOOC courses, in order to identify and assess the strengths and weaknesses in the accessible Web production from the Web Accessible Initiative, defined by the World Wide Web Consortium - W3C.To do this, an instrument (section type) is applied, that guides the evaluation of educational resources, according to the level A set by the accessibility standard. The instrument proposes the assessment of 27 criteria in total, divided into four principles: perceptibility, operability, understanding and robustness.The chosen courses belong to the ‘Digital Antioquia’, a strategy of Antioquia departmental administration, which seeks to develop ICT skills in teachers of the region. The research sample was defined by convenience, taking into account the type of problem and investigation, the nature of the object and the capacity to collect and analyze data.At the end of the article are presented the highest rating criteria obtained and its justification. Furthermore, the criteria with the lowest score are listed, accompanied by an academic discussion which intend to provide improvement suggestions. This, as a strategy for knowledge management and promotion of a Web for all.

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