- Title
- “Obstacles to my learning”: a mature-aged student with autism describes his experience in a fully online course
- Creator
- Downing, Jillian
- Relation
- https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/ceehe/access-critical-explorations-of-equity-in-higher-education
- Relation
- International Studies in Widening Participation Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 15-27
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- In 2006 the Vice Chancellors’ Committee approved national guidelines relating to students with disabilities in Australian universities, prescribing that all students should have an equal opportunity to participate fully in university life. Responding to these guidelines requires a sound understanding of the student experience in both on-campus and online learning environments and a commitment to inclusive course design. This paper reports on the experiences of a mature-age student with autism enrolled in a fully online teachereducation course. Whilst contemporary pedagogical approaches to online learning may be welcomed by many, for this student it created significant obstacles in his learning path and threatened his ability to continue. The student’s articulation of his experience provides a window into a world that is foreign to many, and offers course designers and teaching staff insights into designing for inclusivity.
- Subject
- autism; online learning; non-traditional students; higher education; applied learning; learning design; Access: Critical explorations of equity in higher education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1433961
- Identifier
- uon:39368
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-7833
- Rights
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
- Language
- eng
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