TY - JOUR
T1 - Delivering on the promise of Plato's academy
T2 - Educational accessibility for the 21st century
AU - Wheatly, Michele G.
AU - Flach, John
AU - Shingledecker, Clark
AU - Golshani, Forouzan
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for LWD-07 was provided by Wright State University (WSU) and the US National Science Foundation (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT): Ph.D. concentration in Technology-based Learning with Disability at WSU).
Funding Information:
The earliest American universities, like their European counterparts, were deeply rooted in the classical Western tradition emanating from Greece. The Jeffersonian model of a higher education prepared ‘gentlemen’ for citizenship in a democracy. The 19th century witnessed the founding of the land grant universities (Morrill Act, 1862) in response to the agricultural and industrial needs of a growing nation. The research universities were subsequently founded based on the Germanic model. Access to American universities burgeoned in the 20th century due the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act General Issue (‘GI Bill’ 1944) that opened up higher education to the populace on an unprecedented scale. Regional universities sprung up and, with funding from newly established federal agencies National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), a vast engine of research and development fuelled American economic prosperity post-WWII. While the ‘universitas scholarium’ was beginning to promote coeducation and opportunity for underprivileged students, minimal gains were made for students from minority populations, and women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The situation for the ‘last minority’, people with disabilities, was not much improved, largely because of inaccessible
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Purpose.This special volume is dedicated to eight updated and expanded communications selected from 33 refereed papers presented at the inaugural international conference on Technology-based Learning with Disability (LWD-07) which took place on July 1920, 2007 at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Methods.Approximately 140 researchers and practitioners attended LWD-07 representing a cross-section of K-12 and higher education, pure and applied research, disability-related industry and rehabilitation agencies with common interests in facilitating educational attainment for people with all types of disabilities through use of technology. Results.The communications selected for publication are representative of the breadth of interest at the nexus of disability, assistive technology, and the pedagogy of individualized learning. Conclusions. Access to education is a key component for quality of life and rehabilitation of any individual with a disability.
AB - Purpose.This special volume is dedicated to eight updated and expanded communications selected from 33 refereed papers presented at the inaugural international conference on Technology-based Learning with Disability (LWD-07) which took place on July 1920, 2007 at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Methods.Approximately 140 researchers and practitioners attended LWD-07 representing a cross-section of K-12 and higher education, pure and applied research, disability-related industry and rehabilitation agencies with common interests in facilitating educational attainment for people with all types of disabilities through use of technology. Results.The communications selected for publication are representative of the breadth of interest at the nexus of disability, assistive technology, and the pedagogy of individualized learning. Conclusions. Access to education is a key component for quality of life and rehabilitation of any individual with a disability.
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Disability
KW - Education
KW - Individualized learning
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U2 - 10.3109/17483100903387176
DO - 10.3109/17483100903387176
M3 - Article
C2 - 20184523
AN - SCOPUS:77649284482
SN - 1748-3107
VL - 5
SP - 79
EP - 82
JO - Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology
JF - Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology
IS - 2
ER -