Universal instructional design principles for Moodle

This paper identifies a set of universal instructional design (UID) principles appropriate to distance education (DE) and specifically tailored to the needs of instructional designers and instructors teaching online. These principles are then used to assess the accessibility level of a sample onlin...

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Autor principal: Tanya Elias
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Publicado: Athabasca University Press 2010
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:155592e5b79f4c75908b7664dcf8f5942021-12-02T19:20:40ZUniversal instructional design principles for Moodle10.19173/irrodl.v11i2.8691492-3831https://doaj.org/article/155592e5b79f4c75908b7664dcf8f5942010-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/869https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This paper identifies a set of universal instructional design (UID) principles appropriate to distance education (DE) and specifically 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 (MoodleTM) 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.Tanya EliasAthabasca University PressarticleLMSSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2010)
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Universal instructional design principles for Moodle
description This paper identifies a set of universal instructional design (UID) principles appropriate to distance education (DE) and specifically 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 (MoodleTM) 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.
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