Access and Use of Digital Information Resources by Students with Vision Impairment: Challenges, Prospects and Expected Role of Libraries

Akbar, Azeem; Jabbar, Abdul; Saleem, Qurat Ul Ain; Ashiq, Murtaza

doi:10.1080/1034912x.2022.2095356

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“…This creates a climate that is conducive to teamwork. The lack of appropriate ICT practice models, as well as a lack of institutional, administrative, and technical support, were cited by Akbar et al (2022) as obstacles to ICT adoption. The hurdles were further broken down into school and individual barriers, suggesting that they might not always be about administrative help but rather going beyond their bounds.…”

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School Administration Related Factors that Influence Access to and use of ICT in Special Schools of Learners with Visual Impairment

Keitany,

Muthee,

Ondigi

2023

IJMRA

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The infusion of Information communication technology into teaching and learning in schools is growing by day. Information Communication Technology is now a reliable source of knowledge for transforming and reforming education. However, the school administrators’ personal beliefs and theoriesabout integration of ICT in teaching and learning are widely considered to play a central role in the implementation of the newtechnologies in schools. Therefore, given the role the head teachersplay, there is need to investigate their influence in the access to anduse of ICT in special schools of learners with visual impairments.The findings are significant for it would help policy makers to understand the role of school administration in the implementation of ICT in special schools with learners with visualimpairments. The objective of the study was to establish school administration factors that influence access to and use of ICT in special schools for leaners with visual impairments in Kenya. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The study targeted sevenpublic special primary schoolsforleaners with visual impairments with a population of 1667, 161 teachers, seven head teachers, sevencomputer teachers and seven ministry of education officers. The study sampled three schools situated in different counties in the country; Kiambu county, Meru county and Mombasa county. Judgmental sampling technique, stratified random sampling and simple random sampling were used to draw the samples. The samples consisted of three primary schools for leaners with visualimpairment, 168 learners, 18 class teachers, 3 computer teachers, three head teachers and three Ministry If Education officials in the counties where the schools are situated. Data collection instruments were questionnaires, interview schedules and observation schedules. Content validity was determined by seeking expert review. The Cronbach Alpha formula was used to compute the reliability of the instruments. A reliability co efficient of 0.72 was used to judge the reliability of the instruments. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study found that head teachers are willing to support the learners with visual impairment to access and use ICT in the schools. However, there are hindering factors such as unstable internet connection, low teachers’ capacity to use ICT, lack of enough time allocated toICT learning, some of the head teachers had little knowledge on how to get adapted ICTs for learners with visual impairment andfinally, there was no mechanism or model for accessibility of the ICT and other assistive resources for learners with visual impairments in the schools. The study recommended that the government through the ministry of education to train head teachers and teachers on the use of ICT suitable for learners withvisual impairments in schools and ensure their functionality and availability. There is also need for a model for access of ICT and provision of the learning support for the learners with visual impairments in the special primary schools in Kenya.

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School Administration Related Factors that Influence Access to and use of ICT in Special Schools of Learners with Visual Impairment

Keitany,

Muthee,

Ondigi

2023

IJMRA

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“…is proposed. In addition, in [4], along with the significant increase in the use of digital services and access to distributed information resources by learners, including people with visual impairments, existing obstacles for the latter group of learning participants are analysed. It is proposed to change the policy of educational institutions towards these people and improve library services in accessing information resources.…”

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Empirical evaluation of the transfer of information resources in active learning

Romansky¹

2023

IJITS JOURNAL

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Active learning is an alternative to traditional learning, using the capabilities of the global network to access remote information resources. The purpose of the article is to analyse the sources and factors of delay in the implementation of network services and the possibilities of access to distributed information objects depending on their size and remoteness. The research was conducted by collecting empirical data (monitoring) on the transfer of resources between client and server. A research organization model was developed and an implementation application was created. Experiments were carried out, and the obtained results were summarized and presented through statistical evaluations and graphical interpretation.

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Technological Infrastructure for Libraries

Ashiq,

Sultan,

Rafiq

2025

Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science

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Access and Use of Digital Information Resources by Students with Vision Impairment: Challenges, Prospects and Expected Role of Libraries

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

School Administration Related Factors that Influence Access to and use of ICT in Special Schools of Learners with Visual Impairment

School Administration Related Factors that Influence Access to and use of ICT in Special Schools of Learners with Visual Impairment

Empirical evaluation of the transfer of information resources in active learning

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