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Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education

Publication date
2025
Edited by
Chelsea Temple Jones Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University and the co-producer of Podagogies: A Learning and Teaching Podcast at Toronto Metropolitan University
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Fady Shanouda Assistant Professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University
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Lisanne Binhammer educator, researcher, and designer who received her MA in Anthropology with a specialization in Digital Humanities from Carleton University
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Book Review

It is often assumed that online learning is especially helpful for students with disabilities or who are neurodivergent — because this type of learning is accessible, adjustable and adaptable. But is it? Through narratives, poetry, interviews and scholarly analysis, this collection of resources helps the reader reflect on online pedagogy and highlights the possibilities of expanding critical and reflective standards for accessible teaching and learning. The approach taken by the editors and contributors for this collection starts from a design and social justice-based perspective, which leads to a serious challenge to our assumptions about universal design. Rather than using design to make disability and neurodiversity “invisible,” how can instructional design be used to leverage the different experiences and perspectives that disabled and neurodiverse students bring to their learning to enrich learning for all? The book asks us to consider not only which students are served by online education but also why and what the “why” means for teaching design and practice. 

APA Citation

Jones, C.T., Shanouda, F. & Binhammer, L. (Eds.). (2025). Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education. Athabasca University Press.

Target Audiences
Faculty and Instructors
Program, Course and Instructional Designers
Topics
Access
Design Thinking
Instructional/Learning Design
Online Pedagogy
Publication date
2025
Edited by
Chelsea Temple Jones Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University and the co-producer of Podagogies: A Learning and Teaching Podcast at Toronto Metropolitan University
Fady Shanouda Assistant Professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University
Lisanne Binhammer educator, researcher, and designer who received her MA in Anthropology with a specialization in Digital Humanities from Carleton University