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.
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1. Introduction; Jane Seale.
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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.
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3. Accessibility frameworks and models: Exploring the potential for a
paradigm shift; Sheryl Burgstahler, Alice Havel, Jane Seale and Dorit
Olenik-Shemesh.
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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.
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7. New solutions, future possibilities; Jane Seale.
Jane Seale is Professor of Education at the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on the role technologies play in the lives of adults with learning disabilities, and the factors that influence or sustain the digital exclusion of disabled learners.
