Research on Distance Education Learning Support Service for the Disabled

Abstract

With the widespread development of higher education, education equity has received increasing attention from all over the world. The Education 2030 Framework for Action (FFA) published by UNESCO in 2015 emphasizes that everyone has equal rights to education and that the agenda gives special attention to the education of vulnerable groups. As a typical representative of the socially disadvantaged groups, people with disabilities are increasingly demanding higher education. Due to the physical and psychological specificity of the disabled, their access to higher education is greatly restricted, and the diverse learning resources and flexible forms of learning in distance education can provide equal and convenient learning opportunities for the disabled. Therefore, distance education for disabled people can be an effective way to improve higher education for the disabled. As an important part of the distance higher education for the disabled, the learning support service can help the disabled to overcome their own difficulties and meet their learning needs according to the characteristics of the disabled, thus improving the learning effect. This paper studies distance higher education for the disabled from two aspects: academic support services and non-academic support services. Firstly, the paper puts forward the significance and influence of distance education for the disabled, and the importance of learning support service in distance education for the disabled. Secondly, the particularity of the disabled and the needs of higher education will be pointed out. Then the paper analyzes the current situation of distance higher education learning support services for disabled people in China, summarizes the existing problems and deficiencies, and learns from the experience of other countries. Eventually, the paper proposes corresponding countermeasures for improving the quality of distance higher education learning support services for disabled people in China, in order to promote the equity and quality of higher education for the disabled. It is hoped that the results of this paper can provide some suggestions for the development of distance education for the disabled and the construction of lifelong education system.