Evaluación de la Accesibilidad de MOOC Orientados a la Tercera Edad

Currently, government organizations around the world are paying attention to the vulnerable sectors of the population, among which we find the elderly people, who constitute a big portion of inhabitants. Therefore, it has been necessary to create tools that allow the diffusion of knowledge that will improve their quality of life. Therefore, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which are tools that allow online learning, have been considered as a suitable solution. However, most efforts are centered in the general production of MOOCs and are not oriented towards the special needs of accessibility for elderly people, or they have proposed methodologies and techniques to create specific tools for elderly people without considering supporting ways to evaluate them. This paper presents an accessible model aligned with the ISO/IEC 25010, which can be used as an input towards an evaluation process for MOOCs for elderly people. To accomplish the creation of the accessibility model the IQCM methodology was implemented. Finally, to show the feasibility of this proposal we have applied it to MOOC to determine if it possesses the accessibility characteristics required by elderly people. Therefore, this study contributes directly in the building of MOOC for elderly people.