Handicapped Higher Education
Li Bian
College of Special Education
Beijing Union University
Beijing, China bl2003@163.com Abstract—E-learning is flexible learning using computer network resources, tools and applications, and focusing on interaction among teachers, learners, and the online environment and on collaborative learning. This paper presents and analyzes elearning with computer technology in handicapped higher education. Computer technologies have become an intrinsic and important aspect of teaching and learning in our digital and networked society. In particular, they can have a profound impact in the education of those college students with disabilities.
They can be used to enhance students’ abilities as well as support their learning activities. And especially, they enable students with disabilities to accomplish educational goals from which they have traditionally been excluded.
Keywords-e-learning; computer technology; college students; handicapped; higher education
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INTRODUCTION
E-learning is about connecting learners to other learners, teachers to professional support services and providing platforms for learning. E-education will connect learners and teachers to better information, ideas and one another via effective combinations of pedagogy and technology [1].
Computer network technology allows universities and colleges to leapfrog the logistics and organizational constraints they meet today to widen their audience [2]. Computer network technology provides access to students with mobility or availability restrictions, creating flexible, digital campuses.
Students are able to work remotely, attending courses, accessing information and completing exercises with wireless connections to teachers and databases of educational resources
[3]. E-learning is more than developing computer literacy and the skills necessary to operate various types of information and
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