The Online Educator: Innovation and Accessibility (Week 2)

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The second week of MOOC online educator discussed the myth about online education is more accessible than face-to-face education. It appeared two terms, inclusion and accessibility. Inclusion in the educational context means that remove the barriers for equalities while accessibility means equal participation for people with disability. So, it is true for some people that online education is more inclusive because it offers the opportunity for all people no matter what they race are, their background is, or their area is. But at some points, online education can be costly as well because of internet bills and website maintenance. 
There was a survey about student barriers to online learning developed by Muilenburg and Berge, 2005 and it mentioned 8 barriers to online learning. Those were administrative/instructor issues, social interactions, academic skills, technical skills, learner motivation, time and support for studies, cost and access to the internet, and technical problem. 97% of the participants in this MOOC assumed that online learning can be accessible and innovative, while 3% answered no. 
This course also introduced the term of UDL or what it is called as Universal Design for Learning (CAST, 2017). UDL is based on accessibility for all learners type and it covers representation, action and expression and engagement. There is also some innovation in accessible learning online. The first is about animated avatars, like what has been done by virtual humans team at the University of East Anglia that created SignTel. The other examples are eSign in Germany and The LinguaSign Project for children. 
There is also speech recognition and digital personal assistants, like Robin, Siri, Cortana, and Alexa. 
When creating materials, teachers should not limit in the education-related content, it should be more than that and can use sources from different sources, like World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C)  and it has premises perceivable (alternative texts for non-text content, captions, and users friendly), operable (navigated to find the content, clear content, readable, and accessible from keyboard), understandable (readable, understandable, predictable), and robust (compatible and futuristtics). 

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