| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 223 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
1. Supporting Students with Disabilities During COVID-19 -- 2. COVID-19 and Forced Online Education: Students' Perceptions of Service Quality and Satisfaction -- 3. Managing Digital Divide in a Fully Integrated, Community-Engaged Medical Curriculum Within a Hyper-Diversion Context: Reflections from Western Sydney University School of Medicine -- 4. Challenges Among Visually Impaired Students in Higher Education Towards Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia -- 5. The Motivational Divide: Addressing the Diverse Student Body in Challenging Times -- 6. From Physical to Online Learning: The Digital Divide in Higher Vocational Education -- 7. "Am I Ready for This Change?": Challenges in Optimizing the Use of Online Learning in Medical and Health Professions Education During the Pandemic and Beyond -- 8. Opportunities and Challenges of Postgraduate Entrance Examination Preparation Within an Inclusive Education Context in China -- 9. Exploring the Inclusivity of Assessment ePortfolio for Multimodal Literacy During the Pandemic: A Case Study in Malaysian Higher Education -- 10. Enhancing Inclusivity in Online Learning Resources for B40 University Students - A Malaysian Experience -- 11. Leaving No One Behind: Educating Refugees During the Pandemic -- 12. The need for Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education for the Specially-Abled - An Essay -- 13. Future Inclusive Education |
| Summary |
This book addresses issues of access that COVID-19 brought forth in higher education, with a primary focus on Asian countries. In looking to address SDG4 to promote inclusive and equitable quality education for all, the volume explores the challenges relating to educational exclusion by considering how specially-abled students have been impacted by the digital divide in the context of the pandemic. It puts a spotlight on the approaches, experiences, and case analyses from various geographies in the region to study transitions in inclusivity. Universities and institutes of higher education have had to reconsider their digital offerings and services all the more since the onset of the pandemic, but have, in many instances, failed to fully account for how Internet access can be limited, unavailable, or unaffordable for many students. As a result, specially-abled learners students without sufficient technological resources, such as those living in remote areas where there are little or no Internet facilities have been, however unintentionally, neglected. While universities implemented their own practices, processes and policies to reach, and teach, disadvantaged learners, they had to further adapt these strategies, re-aligning them to meet the unprecedented circumstances, and concomitant needs, of specially-abled learners and there is still much more to do. This book consolidates regional perspectives on how to work towards goals of inclusivity, and bridge the digital divide, looking into, and beyond, the conditions of the pandemic. Relevant to scholars and policymakers, this book is of interest to those focused on digitisation and the transition to the new normal in higher education |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 21, 2023) |
| Subject |
Inclusive education.
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Education, Higher.
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Digital divide.
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Influence.
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higher education.
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Digital divide
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Education, Higher
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Inclusive education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
More, Bhakti, editor.
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Biju, Seena, editor
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Pallath, Vinod, editor
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| ISBN |
9789819950768 |
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9819950767 |
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