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Disabled online learners: Benefits and drawbacks of online education and learning platforms when pursuing higher education.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Disabled online learners: Benefits and drawbacks of online education and learning platforms when pursuing higher education./
Author:	Coronel, Rina S.
Description:	97 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Danielle Babb.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Education, Business. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3307913
ISBN:	9780549573869

Disabled online learners: Benefits and drawbacks of online education and learning platforms when pursuing higher education.
Coronel, Rina S.

Disabled online learners: Benefits and drawbacks of online education and learning platforms when pursuing higher education. - 97 p.

Adviser: Danielle Babb.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Capella University, 2008.

In an effort to encourage disabled learners to continue and or pursue higher education, many schools are providing online learning platforms including WebCT, Blackboard, Jenzabar, Saba Centra, SunGard of Higher Education and Outlook Express. However, U.S.-based learners with disabilities may be missing educational opportunities due to their experiences with this technology. The problem lies in how these platforms are perceived by learners with disabilities, in terms of whether the online platforms have a positive or negative impact on their efforts. The main objective of this study was to determine which online learning platforms were most conducive to comfort and learning for U.S.-based online learners with disabilities, and to gauge their perceptions with regard to whether the online web-based learning programs either help or hinder their success.

ISBN: 9780549573869Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017515
Education, Business.

Disabled online learners: Benefits and drawbacks of online education and learning platforms when pursuing higher education.
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520 $a In an effort to encourage disabled learners to continue and or pursue higher education, many schools are providing online learning platforms including WebCT, Blackboard, Jenzabar, Saba Centra, SunGard of Higher Education and Outlook Express. However, U.S.-based learners with disabilities may be missing educational opportunities due to their experiences with this technology. The problem lies in how these platforms are perceived by learners with disabilities, in terms of whether the online platforms have a positive or negative impact on their efforts. The main objective of this study was to determine which online learning platforms were most conducive to comfort and learning for U.S.-based online learners with disabilities, and to gauge their perceptions with regard to whether the online web-based learning programs either help or hinder their success.
520 $a The study sample was derived from the population of disabled learners in the United States attending online schools. The researcher sent out the letter of informed consent and the survey via electronic mail survey links to newsgroups, forums and blogs in which online learners participate and share ideas, until the target sample was reached. A pilot test was conducted on the survey questionnaire, designed by the researcher, which established face validity and reliability for a sample of at least 50. The researcher collected data from a final sample (n = 90) of disabled online learners' responses to the self-completion Web-based Learning Platform Research Survey instrument. A quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive research method and design was used to analyze the statistical data collected for this study.
520 $a In terms of the main goal, the study established that Blackboard, WebCT, and eCollege web-based online learning platforms were most conducive to comfort and learning for the study sample of U.S.-based online learners with disabilities. With regard to the perceptions of the study sample participants, the findings showed that, in general, most of the study participants, being hearing or physically impaired, reported that the online platforms were helpful in their higher education studies. Computers and the Internet have opened many opportunities to learners with disabilities, and one cannot truly understand the best technology without first understanding the disability.
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