scholarly journals De-Masking deafness: Unlearning and Reteaching Disability During a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Kersten-Parrish
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Disability Research

In academic writing about disability, the impetus is typically used to subvert society's ableist structures and challenge misconceptions and misunderstanding around disability. However, due to the world-wide spread of COVID-19 and the restrictions put in place to reduce the virus's impact, such as asking people to wear masks in public places and the closing of universities and moving to entirely online learning, the author, who is deaf, found herself vulnerable and confronting a lack of access due to these measures. This reflexive paper will investigate how the pandemic and its effects forced the author to reconsider her ownership of her deafness. It will add to a growing body of autoethnographic disability research by contributing another facet to understandings around disability and self as they are actualized in the midst of the pandemic.

Teaching and Learning Online

2016 ◽  
pp. 1164-1189
Author(s):  
Angelia Yount ◽  
Kwesi Tandoh
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Technology Readiness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Instructor Interaction ◽  
The World

This chapter explores online learning and the pedagogical techniques needed to create an effective learning environment. In addition, it emphasizes the advances in contemporary online learning tracing its difficult beginning and the progress made due to advances made in technology especially the World Wide Web and the Internet. The chapter also discusses the importance of immediacy in online learning, and its ability to allow students to learn from anywhere and at any time. Student problems include lack of access to the technology, readiness to work online, and the erroneous impression that they know the technology more than the instructor. Interaction includes the effective application of scenarios of student and content, interaction between instructor and students, and the interaction between students which help promote social presence. We strongly believe the application of the afore-mentioned strategies will ensure successful development and implementations of an effective online course.

The Power of Inclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 421-438
Author(s):  
Erasmos Charamba
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning

The year 2019 saw the emergence of COVID-19, an infectious disease spread through human-to-human transmission. This resulted in the immediate worldwide suspension of contact classes as countries tried to contain the wide spread of the pandemic. Consequently, educational institutions were thus left with only one option: e-learning. E-learning is the delivery of learning experiences through the use of electronic mail, the internet, the world wide web, and it can either be synchronous or asynchronous. Through the translanguaging lens, this chapter reports on a qualitative study that sought to explore the crucial role language plays in the e-learning of multilingual science students at a secondary school in South Africa. The e-learning lessons were in the form of videos, multilingual glossaries, and narrated slides in English and isiZulu languages. Data was collected through lesson observations and interviews held via Microsoft Teams. This chapter suggests numerous cognitive and socio-cultural benefits of multilingual e-learning pedagogy and recommends its use in education.

Towards the world-wide ban of indoor cigarette smoking in public places

2006 ◽  
Vol 209 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis R. Rivero ◽  
James L. Persson ◽  
David C. Romine ◽  
John T. Taylor ◽  
Theron C. Toole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The World

When the Future Finally Arrives

2012 ◽  
pp. 1738-1751
Author(s):  
Matt Crosslin
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter examines how the World Wide Web could possibly change over the next 10 years into a concept increasingly being referred to as “Web 3.0,” and how these changes might affect education. It examines how Web 3.0 concepts such as cloud computing, the Semantic Web, and the three-dimensional (3-D) Web are currently being explored and realized. A possible future online learning scenario is also described and analyzed to help visualize these possibilities for education. The author hopes that providing an understanding of and insight into how the Internet and related technologies may continue to develop and evolve in the next several years will help educators be better prepared for the future of online learning.

Teaching and Learning Online

2016 ◽  
pp. 377-400
Author(s):  
Angelia Yount ◽  
Kwesi Tandoh
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Technology Readiness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Instructor Interaction ◽  
The World

This chapter explores online learning and the pedagogical techniques needed to create an effective learning environment. In addition, it emphasizes the advances in contemporary online learning tracing its difficult beginning and the progress made due to advances made in technology especially the World Wide Web and the Internet. The chapter also discusses the importance of immediacy in online learning, and its ability to allow students to learn from anywhere and at any time. Student problems include lack of access to the technology, readiness to work online, and the erroneous impression that they know the technology more than the instructor. Interaction includes the effective application of scenarios of student and content, interaction between instructor and students, and the interaction between students which help promote social presence. We strongly believe the application of the afore-mentioned strategies will ensure successful development and implementations of an effective online course.

When the Future Finally Arrives

2010 ◽  
pp. 380-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Crosslin
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter examines how the World Wide Web could possibly change over the next 10 years into a concept increasingly being referred to as “Web 3.0,” and how these changes might affect education. It examines how Web 3.0 concepts such as cloud computing, the Semantic Web, and the three-dimensional (3-D) Web are currently being explored and realized. A possible future online learning scenario is also described and analyzed to help visualize these possibilities for education. The author hopes that providing an understanding of and insight into how the Internet and related technologies may continue to develop and evolve in the next several years will help educators be better prepared for the future of online learning.

Online Learning for the Visually Impaired

2003 ◽  
pp. 387-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirela Arion ◽  
Marius Iulian Tutuianu
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Education Department ◽  
The World ◽  
Context Of Learning

At the society level, the Internet is a technological, social and cultural phenomenon, shared by the consensus of its users and not owned by anybody. It is a communication network than can, at any moment, bridge people from everywhere and can be looked at as a consequence of modernity (Giddens, 1992). There is a growing demand and pressure coming from the technology side for adopting online learning but, in order to justify and evaluate the integration of World Wide Web techniques in education, one must attempt to answer at least two questions: 1. Does the World Wide Web promote new approaches to teaching and learning? 2. Will the World Wide Web increase access to education? The case study that we had to do because of the context of learning within a special education department helped us answer these questions and understand and, more than that, appreciate online learning for the visually impaired.

Smart ProFlexLearn

2004 ◽  
pp. 66-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Ghaoui ◽  
W. A. Janvier
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Real World ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Online Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual University ◽  
The World ◽  
Real World Learning

This chapter is based on the authors’ vision that “A virtual university should be, to the learner, a distance or online learning environment that can be transmitted via the World Wide Web by an intelligent tool that is intuitive to use, a simulation of the real-world learning experience and, at all stages, interacts with the learner’s changing profile.”

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