Designing Accessible Digital Learning: An Asynchronous Graduate Course

Morgan A., Saykılı A.

AECT Convention 2025, Nevada, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 20 - 24 Ekim 2025, cilt.15, (Tam Metin Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 15
  • Doi Numarası: 10.59668/2579.27038
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Nevada
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
  • Anadolu Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This design case describes a fully online, six-week graduate course that prepares future learning designers to create accessible, inclusive digital learning. Grounded in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2), Universal Design for Learning (UDL 3.0), and generative AI (GenAI), the course engages students in building an educational website through iterative units. Each unit integrates empathy challenges and positions GenAI as a co-designer while maintaining human oversight. We also describe adaptations for working in low-bandwidth, mobile-first contexts. The paper concludes with design implications for leveraging such courses as testbeds to study AI-enabled accessibility practices in online education.