Abstract

RAMA, Claudio. La educación virtual como la modalidad educativa para las personas con necesidades especiales: solo en la red no hay personas con discapacidad. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.38, pp.325-345. ISSN 1981-416X.

The problem of access to education for people with disabilities has traditionally been viewed from the standpoint of “Special Education”, which was never incorporated into Higher Education, which always attended equally to all students. It was only in the 90s when that paradigm shifted to focus on accessibility, through policies and strategies focused on overcoming the physical and educational barriers, and boost compensation policies. Such policies increase access but allowed for some people, not covered access for all, and is expressed in high dropout rates and low efficiency of qualification for persons with disabilities. This paper analyzes the phase and results in low levels of accessibility in the region, and focuses on how virtualization is changing the current paradigm to overcome the problems of accessibility and focus on digital access. In this regard, it is argued that collaborative learning and home network as digital classroom constitute the only mode that actually allows full accessibility for all people with disabilities, beyond the diversity of situations and conditions, and analyze as under the digital world there are no people with disabilities in both the software and hardware interfaces constitute the accessibility to education.

Keywords : People with Disabilities; Access; Higher Education; Virtualization; Distance Education.

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