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Symposium report: impacts of ICT on supporting students with disabilities in higher education, Makuhari, Japan, Feb 13th 2015

The Open University of Japan hosts an annual international symposium on matters relating to higher education. This year, the theme was supporting disabled students in this context and, in particular, the role of ICT here. This is timely because the Japanese Act on the Elimination of Disability Discrimination was enacted in 2013. From 2016, this means public universities are legally obliged to provide reasonable accommodation to students with disabilities (SWDs), while private universities are expected to make diligent efforts to provide this for them. This report gives highlights of the five presentations and then presents themes from subsequent discussion.