If you feel the LExDis JISC project could help yours in anyway, please do
get in touch as we are gathering strategies related to the use of e-learning
when working with assistive technologies and abit about the impact of social
networking which I feel may good for some but another barrier for others.
Southampton University uses Blackboard and their own virtual learning
environments in various departments, plus the odd group on Facebook etc.

I would also be interested to hear from anyone else working on these
subjects as it would be wonderful to pool some ideas..  

Best wishes E.A.

Mrs E.A. Draffan
Learning Societies Lab
ECS, University of Southampton
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 7246
http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk 
http://www.emptech.info/


 

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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Help requested for surveys/interviews


Hi All,
I’m been a member of this list for a number of years, although I’ve tended
to read the discussions with interest but not be a very active participant.
I’m a lecturer and researcher at the University of York, and my speciality
is technology for people with disabilities.  I’m currently involved in a
European project which is investigating how to use the potential of virtual
learning environments to better support students with disabilities and
mature students (although we are well aware that these systems have big
accessibility problems at the moment).
So I’m looking for some volunteers and publicity to help us understand the
needs of students and how professionals currently support them.
We have a survey for everyone working in HE/FE institutions (lecturers,
disability officers, technicians, library and admin staff, I do mean
everyone).  Also, we don’t want only people with experience of working with
students with disabilities or mature students, we are interested in
everyone’s experiences.  It is quite a long survey, it will take up to 40
minutes to complete (the clever software does at least allow you to do some
and come back later if you wish). Because it is quite an effort, we are
going to hold a prize draw with 10 x £10 Amazon gift vouchers amongst all
respondents.  So I’m inviting all staff on the list to complete it, and if
there are any ways you can advertise it to other people in your institution,
I’d be very grateful.  I can provide a pdf flyer, if that would be useful to
people.
Of course, we also want to get information from students, and we have a
survey for students, both disabled and non-disabled, mature and not mature.
Again it’s quite long, but there is also a prize draw of 10 x £10 Amazon
gift vouchers.  If you can publicise the survey to students, I’d be very
grateful. 
Both surveys can be accessed from the following web page: 
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/hci/eu4all/survey/index.htm
<http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/hci/eu4all/survey/index.htm> 
The surveys have been extensively tested for accessibility, so they should
work well with screen readers and magnification programs.
Finally, we are interested in doing interviews with people, to get more
in-depth information.  We are interested in recruiting anyone working in
HE/FE who could give up about an one hour for an interview.  We can travel
pretty much anywhere in the UK.  Everyone who is interviewed will get an £10
Amazon voucher for their efforts.
Many, many thanks for your help with this, feel free to ask any questions,
either on list or off list.


Helen 



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