The book explores the all the key areas in higher education today, including: managing the student's transition from FE to HE; examining current barriers to inclusive education; uses and requirements for information technology; quality issues and benchmark descriptors; examinations and assessment; and employability and work placements. This book is written for all lecturers in higher education who may not have previous experience of working with disabled students, but now wish to develop a better understanding of the issues involved.
The book explores the all the key areas in higher education today, including: managing the student's transition from FE to HE; examining current barriers to inclusive education; uses and requirements for information technology; quality issues and benchmark descriptors; examinations and assessment; and employability and work placements.This book is written for all lecturers in higher education who may not have previous experience of working with disabled students, but now wish to develop a better understanding of the issues involved.
Mike Adams is Assistant Director of Delivery and Learning at the Disability Rights Commission. He was previously Director of the National Disability Team, UK, which provided consultancy services to higher education institutions in England and Northern Ireland. He has a wealth of experience in learning and teaching related issues, has produced a wide range of papers for conferences and has been published in refereed journals both in the UK and abroad. Sally Brown is Professor of Higher Education Diversity and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Leeds Metropolitan University with responsibility for assessment, learning and teaching. She is also a visiting Professor at the Robert Gordon University . She was for five years Director of Membership Services for the Institute for Learning and Teaching and has published widely on teaching, learning and particularly assessment.
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1 Improving access to higher education for disabled people 2 From a disabling world to a new vision 3 Listening to students: the experiences of disabled students of learning at university 4 Academic standards and benchmark descriptors 5 Supporting staff in developing inclusive online learning 6 Using Universal Design for Learning to expand access to higher education 7 Supporting inclusive practice: developing an assessment toolkit 8 Learning, teaching and disabled students: challenging traditional models of support 9 Disability and omnicompetence: facing up to the challenges in the training of veterinary practitioners 10 Language issues for deaf students in higher education 11 Creating engaging, accessible multimedia for learning 12 Enhancing disabled students¿ learning through virtual learning environments 13 Disability and mainstreaming continuing professional development in higher education 14 Supporting disabled students on placement 15 Equal to the task: disability issues in postgraduate research study 16 Conclusion: a manifesto for mainstreaming inclusive practice
1 Improving access to higher education for disabled people 2 From a disabling world to a new vision 3 Listening to students: the experiences of disabled students of learning at university 4 Academic standards and benchmark descriptors 5 Supporting staff in developing inclusive online learning 6 Using Universal Design for Learning to expand access to higher education 7 Supporting inclusive practice: developing an assessment toolkit 8 Learning, teaching and disabled students: challenging traditional models of support 9 Disability and omnicompetence: facing up to the challenges in the training of veterinary practitioners 10 Language issues for deaf students in higher education 11 Creating engaging, accessible multimedia for learning 12 Enhancing disabled students¿ learning through virtual learning environments 13 Disability and mainstreaming continuing professional development in higher education 14 Supporting disabled students on placement 15 Equal to the task: disability issues in postgraduate research study 16 Conclusion: a manifesto for mainstreaming inclusive practice
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