Accessibility Project: Inclusive Distance Education in Higher Education

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Daniela Melaré Vieira
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Dias, Isabel Barros, Seara, Isabel Roboredo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Teoria e Prática da Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/TeorPratEduc/article/view/23755
• topic: Distance education; higher education; inclusion; information and communication technologies; Educação a distância; Ensino Superior; Inclusão; Tecnologias da informação e comunicação

Inclusive education means a series of factors or characteristics that foreground the theme. Access totechnology may be highlighted since inclusion potentialities materialize through them. ‘Accessibility Project’is an instance of such evolution, which has been developed within an e-learning milieu at the Open Universityin Portugal. The project aims at providing a mutual space to university students who have physical orsensorial access impairments. Current paper provides results of an investigation undertaken at the end of 2011and gives the state-of-the-art of students´ profile integrated in the project, coupled to the activities andimportance of the ‘Accessibility Project’ with regard to students. The project´s main factors andcharacteristics are underscored with information on the manner inclusions are undertaken through newtechnologies in distance education.