IT Effects on Higher Education for the Deaf: A Research on Graduate Employability

Author

Xin, Tong ; Bin, Zhou ; Han, Tan ; Cailing, Lu

Author_Institution

Technol. Coll. for the Deaf, Tianjin Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China

Volume

3

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 July 2010

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

343

Abstract

The application of Information technology (IT) has become the mainstream of social development, which also brings new chances for higher education for the deaf. The effects on graduate employability brought by IT have become a realistic subject of higher education for the deaf. This paper designs a questionnaire to survey the current graduate employability of deaf, and finds IT has made positive and negative effects on many aspects of deaf students´ employability. Some strategies are provided to strengthen the positive effects and weaken the negative effects.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; employment; further education; handicapped aids; information technology; social aspects of automation; IT effect; deaf education; graduate employability; higher education; information technology; social development; Educational institutions; Employment; Information technology; Internet; Loading; Real time systems; graduate employability; higher education for the deaf; information technology; negative effects; positive effects;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications (IFITA), 2010 International Forum on

Conference_Location

Kunming

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7621-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7622-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IFITA.2010.34

Filename

5634680