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Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education

Challenges and New Practices for Inclusion

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Editors:
  1. Jane Seale

    1. Faculty of Wellness, Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

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  • Argues that practice in the fields of disability, ICT and higher education is not providing consistent and positive learning experiences to students with disabilities
  • Calls for a creative re-imagining of the contribution of ICT to reducing disadvantage for disabled students
  • Examines how stakeholders in higher education can mediate successful relationships between disabled learners and their technologies

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jane Seale
    Pages 1-19

  3. Higher Education, Information and Communication Technologies and Students with Disabilities: An Overview of the Current Situation

    • Catherine Fichten, Dorit Olenik-Shemesh, Jennison Asuncion, Mary Jorgensen, Chetz Colwell
    Pages 21-44

  4. Accessibility Frameworks and Models: Exploring the Potential for a Paradigm Shift

    • Sheryl Burgstahler, Alice Havel, Jane Seale, Dorit Olenik-Shemesh
    Pages 45-72

  5. New Perspectives on Stakeholders: Who Needs to Step Up to the Plate and How?

    • Laura King, Sheryl Burgstahler, Björn Fisseler, Dana Kaspi-Tsahor
    Pages 73-97

  6. New Designs or New Practices? Multiple Perspectives on the ICT and Accessibility Conundrum

    • Tali Heiman, Tim Coughlan, Hadi Rangin, Markus Deimann
    Pages 99-115

  7. New Practices: Promoting the Role of ICT in the Shared Space of Transition

    • Christian Bühler, Sheryl Burgstahler, Alice Havel, Dana Kaspi-Tsahor
    Pages 117-141

  8. New Solutions, Future Possibilities

    • Jane Seale
    Pages 143-156

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 157-162
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About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Wellness, Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Jane Seale

About the editor

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. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Challenges and New Practices for Inclusion

  • Editors: Jane Seale

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37125-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37124-1Published: 14 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37127-2Published: 15 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37125-8Published: 13 January 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 162

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Technology, Higher Education, Disability Studies, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education

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