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| monfalcone | Subject: Journal Article "Universal Instructional Design Principles for Moodle" |  |
| The following article may be of interest to the ATutor community. Even though the author focuses on the competitor Moodle, her discussion and recommendations are of wider interest. It is interesting that the text does not mention ATutor at all given that it mainly deals with issues of accessibility, was written by a Canadian author and draws on a Canadian example. This is certainly ATutor's home turf. The citation and abstract of the article are appended to this message. The text is freely available on the net. Best regards, M. --- Elias, Tanya (Athabasca University, Canada). "Universal Instructional Design Principles for Moodle." _The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning_, Vol 11, No 2 (2010), ISSN: 1492-3831 www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/869/1575 Abstract The paper identifies a set of universal instructional design (UID) principles appropriate to distance education (DE) and tailored to the needs of instructional designers and instructors teaching online. These principles are then used to assess the accessibility level of a sample online course and the availability of options in its LMS platform (Moodle) to increase course accessibility. Numerous accessibility-sensitive plug-in modules are found to be available to Moodle users, though relatively few features were included in the sample course analysed. This may be because they have not been made available to instructors at the institutional level. The paper offers a series of recommendations to improve the accessibility of online DE to learners with diverse abilities, disabilities, and needs. Keywords: Universal instructional design; distance education; learning management systems; Moodle Posted: 2010-08-03 08:56:48 | ||
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