Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education Challenges and New Practices for Inclusion

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. 

Chapter 1. Introduction; 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.