Abstract:
This study examined the accessibility of e-learning resources among pre-service
teachers with visual impairment at the Presbyterian College of Education and Wesley
College of Education in the Akuapem North and Old Tafo Municipal Assemblies in
the Eastern and Ashanti Regions of Ghana, respectively. Using a qualitative approach
to inquiry with a case study research design, the study employed a semi-structured
interview and focus group discussion guide to elicit data from 13 respondents from
these two study areas. The data were analysed using themes that emerged from the
data. The findings of the study revealed high availability of e-learning resources such
as laptops, projectors, tablets and many more. However, the study revealed that e learning resources were inaccessible to some of the students or that they had
difficulties in accessing them. It was recommended that the management of these two
Colleges should, through their heads of Information Communication Technology,
communicate to students the timelines for the closure of e-learning facilities during
maintenance sessions. The government, through the Ministry of Education, should
equip e-learning facilities with specially designed modern software and devices, as
well as the technical units with tools needed to fix faults that are reported to facilitate
e-learning.
Description:
A thesis in the Department of Special Education
Faculty of Education Studies, submitted to the School
of Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for award of a degree of
Master of Philosophy
(Special Education)
in the University of Education, Winneba.
