Accessibility to learners with additional needs – this is complex due to the multi-authoring; however an ethos might be reached between the Big OER providers. This relates to our tutor group forum discussions about Prezi etc. It’s not good enough to be open thereby financially accessible; everyone should have equal right to the access of usability - funding research to look at assistive technologies adaptability to OER.
Picking up on what several of my tutor group have said about quality I’d like to propose a quality assurance scheme for OER’s, complicated to agree internationally admittedly. Based on similarity to the food hygiene star rating on restaurant/café doors in the UK (and possibly elsewhere but I have not seen any as yet). This would determine the quality of accessibility alongside reputation etc. of each open access provider to reach an “Open Source” standard (Weller, 2012 p. 2). Not only would MOOC participants have a badge but OER sites would too, on their home page (front door).
Developing mobile technology via apps that have clear functioning reputable tools, for instance I’ve had some technical difficulties with OUAnywhere crashing.
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I really like the idea of grading accessibility in a format easy to understand. In our field where every more features will come on the market it would be great to have grading system that allowed informed decision - this would have impacted on some of my decision through resources that are not accessible to all.
You provided an example of food hygiene, I think this is a good example. Do I ever eat at a 1 star rated restaurant? I don't now as the grading is easy to identify and find. Did I a few years ago - almost certainly and unaware so!
Tom