The e-Learning Experiences of Disabled Learners
Table of Contents
- The e-Learning Experiences of Disabled Learners
- Overview
- The LEXDIS Project
- LEXDIS: Objectives
- Defining the LEXDIS Participatory Approach
- Origins of the LEXDIS method
- Nothing about me, without me
- Slide 8
- Overview of Participatory Phases
- Phase One
- Phase Two
- Phase Three
- Data and analysis
- Narratives of exclusion
- Can't use technology, even if wanted to
- An example: Stacey
- Accessibility is a pedagogic & resource issue as much as it a design issue….
- Can use technology, but choose not to
- Can use technology, but choose not to
- Stigmatisation
- Stigmatisation: Focus group discussion
- Narratives of inclusion
- Digital agility
- Confidence levels
- Familiarity levels
- Support requirements
- Slide 27
- Digital decisions: cost-benefit analysis
- Cost-benefit analysis: an example
- Digital decisions and inclusion
- Discussion and Questions
- Overview
- Evaluation of methodology
- Illustrative quotes: commitment
- Continued and expanded participation
- Evaluation of methodology
- The challenges of using participatory approaches
- Labelled participation
- Labelled participation
- Empowered participation
- Empowered participation
- Discussion and Questions
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Labelled participation
- The importance of interacting with participants primarily as learners rather than as disabled people.
- Careful not to put words in the mouths of the participants and instead left space and opportunity for participants to refer to themselves as disabled, if they wished to.
- This has meant that only 9 of the 30 participants explicitly referred to themselves as disabled or dyslexic in the interviews.
- In the participant authored case studies 40% have referred to their disability "label" but three of those were in such an oblique way that it was almost unnoticeable.
- All the students tended to describe functional difficulties related to the tasks undertaken and the technologies being used. We have carried this principle through to the design of the website and the strategy database