Creation and Validation of Accessible OERs and MOOCs

A ten slide presentation with references (final slide) decribing Learning Management Systems (LMS) that can be used to create Online Educational Resources (OERs) and Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It compares the accessibility available in a number of LMS. It describes the Brickfield accessibility toolkit providing accessibilty tests for Moodle sites, and highlights ways to ensure Atutor and Moodle accessibility. It also highlights classcentral.com - a gateway to thousands of MOOCs.

Details about SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) packaged content used in OERs and MOOCs - describing its advantages including:

• Compatibility
• Saving Progress
• Feedback
• Clear Course Structure
• Modularity

The DiversAsia SCORM accessibility validator is a tool to check the accessibility of your html website pges. It unarchives the SCORM package zip file and selects and iterates through the HTML files, and subsequently performs accessibility validation for each HTML file.

The outcomes are presented in a downloadable .zip file which contains a list of CSV files with the verification results for each HTML file from the validated SCORM package.