The Role of Accessibility and Equality in Open Leadership and Management

Fahriye Altinay, Gülsün Başarı, Gökmen Dağlı, Zehra Altinay

2017

Abstract

Accessibility and equality in higher education for quality improvement become crucial research challenge that need to be undertaken as part of the quality strategies and innovation in higher education. With the development of information technologies and its applications on higher education policy and strategies, diffusion of accessibility and equality to all learners comes across as the strategic quality movement in order to underline importance and nature of openness, access and equality into practice. Therefore, accessibility and equality are the quality indicators to set opportunities in learning with disabilities. This research has qualitative nature which the quality, accessibility, equality, technology, and management practices were examined upon semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was done to reveal the findings that the model can be significant to set barrier free education and future plans for accessibility, equality and management in higher education.

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in Harvard Style

Altinay F., Başarı G., Dağlı G. and Altinay Z. (2017). The Role of Accessibility and Equality in Open Leadership and Management . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: FOLSC, ISBN 978-989-758-239-4, pages 715-719. DOI: 10.5220/0006384707150719


in Bibtex Style

@conference{folsc17,
author={Fahriye Altinay and Gülsün Başarı and Gökmen Dağlı and Zehra Altinay},
title={The Role of Accessibility and Equality in Open Leadership and Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: FOLSC,},
year={2017},
pages={715-719},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006384707150719},
isbn={978-989-758-239-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: FOLSC,
TI - The Role of Accessibility and Equality in Open Leadership and Management
SN - 978-989-758-239-4
AU - Altinay F.
AU - Başarı G.
AU - Dağlı G.
AU - Altinay Z.
PY - 2017
SP - 715
EP - 719
DO - 10.5220/0006384707150719