Full Description
This book examines the role played by technologies in removing the disadvantage experienced by students with disabilities in higher education. Addressing five key themes, the editor and contributors explore the practices required of stakeholders within higher education institutions to mediate successful and supportive relationships between disabled learners and their technologies. Ultimately, the book argues that practice in the fields of disability, ICT and higher education is still not providing consistent and widespread positive learning experiences to students with disabilities. In order to address this situation, the field needs to creatively integrate knowledge gained through both research and practice, and to re-imagine what is needed for ICT to meaningfully contribute to a reduction in disadvantage for disabled students. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of disability studies, education and accessibility, and educational technologies.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction; Jane Seale.- Chapter 2. Higher education, information and communication technologies and students with disabilities: An overview of the current situation; Catherine S. Fichten, Dorit Olenik-Shemesh, Jennison Asuncion, Mary Jorgensen and Chetz Colwell.- Chapter 3. Accessibility frameworks and models: Exploring the potential for a paradigm shift; Sheryl Burgstahler, Alice Havel, Jane Seale and Dorit Olenik-Shemesh.- Chapter 4. New perspectives on stakeholders: Who needs to step up to the plate and how?; Laura King, Sheryl Burgstahler, Björn Fisseler and Dana Kaspi-Tsahor.- Chapter 5. New designs or new practices? Multiple perspectives on the ICT and accessibility conundrum; Tali Heiman, Tim Coughlan, Hadi Rangin and Markus Deimann.- Chapter 6. New practices: promoting the role of ICT in the shared space of transition; Christian Bühler, Sheryl Burgstahler, Alice Havel and Dana Kaspi-Tsahor.- Chapter 7. New solutions, future possibilities; Jane Seale.
