H810 WK2 Activity 4.2 Case Studies (notes) - The Student Perspective
Friday, 14 Sep 2012, 16:13
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Monday, 8 Oct 2012, 13:32
Challenges and opportunities from the student point of view:
Accessibility
How the student with a disability sees it:
Persistence
Internal Support
Personality
Independence (responsibility)
(I liken it to a game of snakes and ladders in which the disabled student needs to avoid both, which sounds inequitable: ladders they cannot climb for lack of access and snakes that pose a problem to them that are avoidable or inconsequential to others).
Proactive
Working with the way a lecture or tutor responds
Software - and its foibles.
Making time to proof read
Preference for 'lively discourse' to essays and exams
Using the extra time given
Use note takers
Use the tools on offer: closed caption video, recorder system.
Influences the choice of university
Copying missed information from friends
Finding out you're not the only student with a disability
Dissertation needs not to be the only way to assessThe right motivation at the right time
H810 WK2 Activity 4.2 Case Studies (notes) - The Student Perspective
Challenges and opportunities from the student point of view:
Accessibility
How the student with a disability sees it:
Independence (responsibility)
(I liken it to a game of snakes and ladders in which the disabled student needs to avoid both, which sounds inequitable: ladders they cannot climb for lack of access and snakes that pose a problem to them that are avoidable or inconsequential to others).
Proactive
Making time to proof read
Influences the choice of university
Alcohol and the student union
Lecturer sounded like a guinea-pig