Universal Design for online courses

Week 3

Disabilities

 

Objectives:

Identify different disabilities (visual, hearing, motor and cognitive impairments);

evaluate the impact of these disabilities for online education.

 

Activities:

Watch/read multimedia presentations

Take part on Mind Map activity

 

Introduction:

Students with disabilities are almost 10% of the population of students currently enrolled in higher education; why should they not choose to access online education in equal numbers?

Which are these disabilities?

visual: blidness, low vision, color-blindness

hearing: deafness, hard-of-hearing

motor: inability to use a mouse, slow response time, limited fine motor control, lower body desability, upper body disability

cognitive: learning disabilities, distractibility, inability to remember or focus on large amounts of information, behavioural needs, mental illness, Autism Disorder, Asperger Disorder, Rett Syndrome

 

Each one of this situations demand different approaches and demands special attention for Distance Learning aspects. Follow de links below to learn more about different disabilities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mind map:

Think about your experience with disabled students in face-to-face classroom.

How different should be the same experience in distance learning?

Contribute to collaborative document.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You will be graded for an original post and at least one reply to peer posts during this week. Posts must be related to subject, occur in the week while the topic is under discussion, expand concepts and encourage others to participate. Students will be graded for use of new arguments and relationship established with other parts of document.