· E-learning is a new concept without the ‘burden’ of traditional school systems. It has the ability to offer disability related content and to integrate the specific demands and needs of mobility impaired persons in the curriculum from onset. ‘E-learning as a social equalizer’.
When it comes to M-learning, mobile learning as a specific form of E-learning, we apparently seem to deal with a contradiction. Why do we want to bring mobility impaired persons ‘on the move’ by offering them forms of m-learning if e-learning in general takes away the needs to do? It is all about having the freedom to choose and offering the same possibilities that non- handicapped persons have. In principle it is up to mobility impaired persons themselves to use the possibilities of M-learning or not. Authors of learning materials however have the obligation to create optimal conditions (from an accessibility and usability point of view) that allow to make the choice between static and mobile learning!
The first prerequisite for m- learning is adequate mobility. When it comes to solutions, one way to go is integrating ICT hardware with mobility.There is already much knowledge and technology available to integrate ICT provisions in recent mobility aids. Therefore, m-learning will be a real success for mobility impaired persons if they have access to efficient mobility aids- and provisions. ICT in m-learning for impaired persons is a part of a chain of services and provisions available to them.
