E-Inclusion in Higher Education
Table of Contents
- Understanding e-Inclusion in the context of disabled learners in Higher Education
- Overview
- Inclusive education
- Inclusive e-learning (compared to inclusive education)
- Digital Inclusion
- Digital Inclusion
- Inclusive e-learning (compared to Digital Inclusion)
- Digital Decisions and Empowered Choices
- The LEXDIS Project
- LEXDIS: Participatory Methods
- Will the experiences of the LEXDIS participants help develop our conceptions of inclusion?
- Evidence of exclusion
- Jo- AT not meeting needs
- Kate- accessibility
- Nikki- access issues
- Kim-access to effective support
- Paul K- Stigma
- Reena- Stigma
- Evidence of inclusion
- Michael- Digitally literate
- Hannah- independence
- Kim- positive impact on learning experience
- Nicki- productivity- saving time
- Michael- productivity- making life easy
- Jim- productivity- improved grades
- Jim- productivity- improved focus
- Nicki-productivity- staying on the course
- Digital Decisions
- Stacey- computer or not?
- Nick- which technology?
- Nick- digital decision- learning or socialising
- Jim-time-digital decisions-learning or playing
- Stephanie: Can I afford to invest time in order to save time?
- Nick- digital decisions-curriculum issues
- Kim- digital decisions about using support
- Digital agility
- Stephanie- digital agility-use
- Stephanie- digital agility- strategies
- Robert- digital agility-trying new things
- Sarah D- Digital Agility- problem solving
- Kim- digital agility-determination
- Complex relationships
- Sarah W-tempered value
- Sarah B-tempered value
- Sarah D- I could cope without
- Jim- I could cope without, but..
- Michael- I want to be able to use technology but….
- Evidence for empowerment?
- Theorising inclusive e-learning
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Digital Inclusion
- Emergent concept of a continuum rather than a dichotomy
- The outcome of digital inclusion is viewed as:
- productivity and contribution to society (in terms of getting work, being economically self-sufficient and being a good citizen)
- Equity
- Autonomy, independence
- Practitioners are encouraged to focus on the characteristics of the digitally excluded in order to identify barriers that they can seek to explore and reduce
- Access to or ownership of technology-give it to them
- Skills, confidence, capability- educate them
- Attitude- motivate them
- Differential use- Show them