EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES BY USING ON-LINE INTERNET APPLICATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITIES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Radek Kratochvíl, Mária Jánešová

Abstract: This article describes education of persons with disabilities through e-learning and other on-line communication / internet applications, especially for students with disabilities at the universities in the Czech Republic. Study environment should be adequately adapted to these students. An appropriate tool is to create an on-line communication web portal connecting e-learning as a form of long distance communication enabling the active participation of the student in lectures and e-consultation providing a support for subsequent individual one-on-one consultations. These e-consultations can be paid and may be provided by teachers or advanced students. By implementing this online communication application, effective distance learning and expert advice will be provided to working age students that have limited time and a tight schedule as well as to students with disabilities who generally have problems with relocation. The e-learning and e-consultations should be sufficient for a large number of scientific and academic disciplines. Appropriate online communication tools are applications that allow bilateral audio-video streaming, chatting, sharing of documents or performing tests. The interest in this type of study and this kind of individual consultation using a simple web form has been successfully verified in the practical part of the thesis and implemented during doctoral studies at Faculty of Transportation Sciences of Czech Technical University in Prague.

Keywords: E-learning, persons with disabilities, research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0329016