Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education

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.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Jane Seale.- Chapter 2. Higher education, information and communication technologies and students with disabilities: An overview of the current situation; Catherine S. Fichten, Dorit Olenik-Shemesh, Jennison Asuncion, Mary Jorgensen and Chetz Colwell.- Chapter 3. Accessibility frameworks and models: Exploring the potential for a paradigm shift; Sheryl Burgstahler, Alice Havel, Jane Seale and Dorit Olenik-Shemesh.- Chapter 4. New perspectives on stakeholders: Who needs to step up to the plate and how?; Laura King, Sheryl Burgstahler, Björn Fisseler and Dana Kaspi-Tsahor.- Chapter 5. New designs or new practices? Multiple perspectives on the ICT and accessibility conundrum; Tali Heiman, Tim Coughlan, Hadi Rangin and Markus Deimann.- Chapter 6. New practices: promoting the role of ICT in the shared space of transition; Christian Bühler, Sheryl Burgstahler, Alice Havel and Dana Kaspi-Tsahor.- Chapter 7. New solutions, future possibilities; Jane Seale.