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Education Zone
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer hope and opportunities for persons with disabilities when education is concerned. Most students affected by disabilities attend online courses and it is crucial that e-education provides an accessible and smooth learning process. This Expert Zone will focus on the importance of combining web accessibility with online educational institutions.
Education Blog: Amit Shai
Amit Shai is Director of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning in Long Beach City College (LBCC) and an award winning instructional designer.Students who attend courses online are typically those who otherwise could not participate in on-campus classes. This may include single parents, people who have to stay home and care for family members who need them, working professionals with schedules that are not flexible enough to include classes on-campus, persons with disabilities that may find it challenging to leave their home environment, and others. Therefore, accessible e-learning is not just something required by the law. In today's society, rather, it speaks to the essence of serving student populations and providing equal opportunity for advancement in life.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provide the most significant hope, having the potential and the capability to significantly address the needs of students with disabilities on the path to academic achievement and realization of professional aspirations. Therefore, I am excited to host this e-learning blog on such a remarkable project as the UN's G3ict. As e-learning has no physical or geographical borders, I see this blog as a convener for an international, multi-stakeholder dialogue to identify practical directions leading to digital inclusiveness in educational institutions and practices. In an attempt to keep this blog inclusive, comments and narratives with viewpoints and prospects regarding the overarching topic will be most welcome. All readers who are, or want to be, involved in e-learning, students and teachers, ICT developers, e-content providers, school administrators, policymakers, and other temporarily able-bodied people and persons with disabilities are encouraged to participate. Please share data, information, thoughts, and vision that can help to prevent digital inequality, and promote inclusiveness in e-learning at our schools and classes.
Voice Recognition, Captions, and Beyond
Web Accessibility: Educational Resources and Academic Literature
Welcome to the Education Blog!
Web Accessibility: Educational Resources and Academic Literature
Welcome to the Education Blog!
Future Blog Topics Will Include:
- Inclusive technologies in the classroom – knowledge based methodologies identifying best practices that provide specific inclusive e-learning solutions to challenges encountered in classes on campus and online
- e-Inclusion in education – activities and organizations working towards providing inclusive solutions for e-learning
- Accessibility in the classroom – features that benefit all students
- Lecture podcasts – voice recognition tools for real time transcription
- Presentations and visual guides – captioning and description tools
- Mobile learning – alternative format design
- Digital divide or digital exclusion? – the use or non-use of interactive multimedia e-learning innovations in light of the need for accessibility
- e-Learning policy – concept mapping of policymaking involved in accessibility implementation in educational institutions.