E-Learning and Disability in Higher Education
This book focuses on the research into accessibility in e-learning and provides specific guidelines for instructional designers, managers, and trainers interested in making their work more accessible. I read this book as part of my studies for the OU module H810, ‘Accessible online learning’.
My reading notes
Part 1: Contextualising the scene
Ch. 2: Being a disabled student in higher education
Ch. 3: Drivers for change in higher education accessibility practice
Ch. 4: The stakeholders of accessibility practice
Part 2: Surveying the scene: Making sense of practice
Ch. 5: Guiding accessibility practice
Ch. 6: Evaluating accessibility practice
Ch. 7: Conceptualising accessibility practice
Part 3: Critiquing the scene: Making sense of voices and silences
Ch. 8: Mediated voices: What do we really know about disabled students’ accessibility experiences?
Ch. 10: The call for more accessibility training and the silences surrounding what works
Ch. 11: Critical silences surrounding universal design
Part 4: Re-imagining the scene: Voicing the future for accessibility research and practice
Ch. 12: Re-imagining accessibility research: Methods to enable a democratic voice to be heard
Ch. 13: Re-imagining accessibility practice: Embracing the discourse of digital inclusion
* Ch. 14: Institutional responses to accessibility: Rules, games, and politics
* Ch. 15: Individual responses to accessibility: Tools, activities, and contradictions
* Ch. 16: Community responses to accessibility: Enterprises, boundary practices, and brokers
* These last three chapters are no longer published with the book. Seale provides them separately to OU students taking the H810 module.