Enhancing Educational Access: Digital Solutions for Students with Special Needs
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https://doi.org/10.69980/ajpr.v28i1.123Keywords:
inclusive education, digitalisation, ensuring accessibility of education, students with special needsAbstract
The digitalisation of the educational process and the development of technologies ensure compliance with the principles of accessibility and equality of education. The article is devoted to studying the problem of developing inclusive education in the digital age to ensure the accessibility of education for students with special needs. The study used the methods of questionnaires, a pedagogical experiment, a comparison of the learning outcomes of higher education students before and after the introduction of the outlined pedagogical technology, and statistical processing of the results obtained according to Pearson’s criterion. An analysis of classical and digital inclusive approaches and technology for implementing inclusive digital education methods was developed. Criteria and sub-criteria for the effectiveness of inclusive teaching methods in the digital educational environment have been developed for self-assessment. In the course of the self-assessment of the effectiveness of the technology for implementing inclusive digital education methods, the need to increase the availability of digital learning materials, the convenience of adaptive learning platform interfaces, the availability of technical support, inclusive-oriented teacher training, and the logistics of the inclusive learning process was identified. The statistical verification of the effectiveness of introducing digital inclusive learning tools for students with special needs showed an increase in the number of higher education students with high learning outcomes. Introducing digital teaching methods opens up new opportunities for creating an inclusive environment. However, there is a need to develop and implement technical, technological and methodological strategies for working in the learning environment for students with special needs.
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