ROLE OF ICT FOR ENHANCING ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A REVIEW

Education plays a vital role for the development of society and young generation because it builds and develop a person's beliefs, ideologies, values and take a substantial role in inclusive growth of any country. Inclusive education refers to empowering of every child with skills and knowledge giving equal opportunity to every child to access education equally. The application of ICT in higher education has great implications for the whole educational process, especially in solving problems of accessibility, quality, equity, management, efficiency, and teaching pedagogy. The use of the Internet, web and development of different communication channels have brought the world closer and thus contributed in the concepts of globalization. The main aim of this paper is to know the use of ICT in higher education in context with equity and access for inclusion and to be acquainted with the role of ICT on accessibility of higher education. To achieve this aim, many research papers, articles, Ph.D. theses and books were reviewed. Accessibility may broadly categories into three spheres which are Physical accessibility Technological accessibility and Attitudinal dimensions.