"Dreaming in colour’: disabled higher education students’ perspectives on improving design practices that would enable them to benefit from their use of technologies"

Seale, Jane; Colwell, Chetz; Coughlan, Tim; Heiman, Tali; Kaspi-Tsahor, Dana and Olenik-Shemesh, Dorit (2021). "Dreaming in colour’: disabled higher education students’ perspectives on improving design practices that would enable them to benefit from their use of technologies". Education and Information Technologies, 26(2) pp. 1687–1719.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-020-10329-7

Abstract

The focus of this paper is the design of technology products and services for disabled students in higher education. It analyses the perspectives of disabled students studying in the US, the UK, Germany, Israel and Canada, regarding their experiences of using technologies to support their learning. The students shared how the functionality of the technologies supported them to study and enabled them to achieve their academic potential. Despite these positive outcomes, the students also reported difficulties associated with: i) the design of the technologies, ii) a lack of technology know-how and iii) a lack of social capital. When identifying potential solutions to these difficulties the disabled students imagined both preferable and possible futures where faculty, higher education institutions, researchers and technology companies are challenged to push the boundaries of their current design practices.

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  • Item ORO ID
  • 72093
  • Item Type
  • Journal Item
  • Project Funding Details
  • Funded Project NameProject IDFunding Body
    Disabled students, ICT, post-compulsory education & employment: in search of new solution: International NetworkEd-ICTLEVERHULME The Leverhulme Trust
  • Keywords
  • disability; higher education; technology; design; accessibility
  • Academic Unit or School
  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
    Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
  • Research Group
  • OpenTEL
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  • © 2020 Jane Seale, © 2020 Chetz Colwell, © 2020 Tim Coughlan, © 2020 Tali Heiman, © 2020 Dana Kaspi-Tsahor, © 2020 Dorit Olenik-Shemesh
  • Depositing User
  • Jane Seale
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