Efficient Recommendations for Improving Quality of Teaching: Face to Face, Distance-Learning, and Learners with Disabilities

Abstract

This work encompasses a number of brief, general and specific recommendations to deal with several and usual educational problems: disadvantaged students, lack of confidence, inequity and inequality in education, inadequate assessment, students demotivation, the improper use of Information and Communication Technologies for Education (ICTE), barriers to accessibility of disabled student to distance-learning platforms. We endeavour to shed light on some weak spots for better exploitation and smooth running of e-learning and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). And, we address problems of assistive technologies and accessible learning environments for the benefit of learners with disabilities (LD). In detail, we study in depth many proposals as constructivism in education, corrective feedback, gradation in teaching, and game based learning. Further, we investigate in detail many proposals as the integral involvement, performance of MOOC platforms, the variety of pedagogical activities, feedback for MOOC's assessment, and peer assessment. At the end, we give recommendations about adaptation of distance-learning platform to learners with disabilities, and discuss the implementation of Universal Design for Learning and Instruction to increase the integration of learners with disabilities (LD) and improve their e-accessibility.