This chapter focuses upon the concept of Active Distance Learning (ADL) as a pedagogical approach to designing and teaching in a remote learning setting. This concept has been developed at the University of Northampton ...

‘there are no strangers here – only friends you haven’t met yet” - W B Yeats This paper will explore the evolution of one of the key roles on campus for students with a disability in the context of Universal Design for ...

This article sets out the background of an invitation to participate in a ‘Delphi Study on Inclusion, Guidance Counselling / Career Guidance and Universal Design for Learning’. Today in our ever- changing uncertain world, ...

Welcome to this collection of state-of-the-art writings on cyberbullying. The title of this opening chapter alludes to three things. Firstly, that we are in a war and fighting from the trenches - where hand-to-hand fighting ...

“Disability is a mask that conceals a rich, surprising and fertile ability.” (Brendan Kennelly) The function of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities is to remove the mask and reveal the beauty and ...

The Inclusive National Higher Education Forum (INHEF), is a national interest group comprised of higher education providers and other professionals interested in supporting access routes and inclusive post secondary ...

In this chapter, we will examine how national initiatives have developed over recent decades and how they impacted on the participation of people with disabilities within HE. We contend that Initial access initiatives ...

Following the 2008 recession, Ireland experienced unemployment rates as high as 15% (McGuinness, O’Connell and Kelly, 2014). Policy responses have been through the introduction of upskilling and reskilling through activation ...

This chapter presents the results of a systematic review that investigated the use of mixed reality (MR) technology to assist social competence learning in mainstream education. Social competence represents our ability ...