Fra Stephen Downes: Should Online Course Design Meet Accessibility Standards?. The author argues that "Very few educationally-related websites (such as institutional homepages) meet even the minimum standards of priority one [accessibility standards] and much current online educational course content fails even more miserably. Legacy content that was designed in the past by any of the packaged proprietary platforms (such as WebCT, Cold Fusion, Dreaweaver, Front Page, Flash, Domino, Quick Place, Learning Space etc) does even not meet priority one." The author argues that the means to respond to this lack of accessibility is through the use of standards. "As consumers, we would not tolerate a different size and thickness CD for every recording label that required a physically different CD player to pay it, so why would we tolerate the equivalent in our courseware?" By Peter Paolucci, IFETS, October 3, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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Fra Stephen Downes: Learning Objects and Learning Object Repositories. Slide presentations from the recent seminar on learning objects and their repositories hosted by the Commonwealth of Learning. Five slide shows, including a discussion of eduSource by Doug Macleod and uses of learning objects by Solvig Norman. By Various Authors, Commonwealth of Learning, October 2, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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