What is Access

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The ability of people to receive health services. In relation to the spatial field, access is measured by distance or arrival time to health-care facilities. Learn more in: Potential of GIS and Spatial Knowledge in Health Care and Public Safety

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The ability of people to receive health services. In relation to the spatial field, access is measured by distance or arrival time to health-care facilities. Learn more in: Potential of GIS and Spatial Knowledge in Health Care and Public Safety

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The method or process an organization provides for a person to change the electronic personal data that is held about that person. Learn more in: Data Ownership: Legalities Concerning Wearable Technologies

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The quality principle that is the fundamental motivation for online learning, access means that people who are qualified and motivated can obtain affordable, quality education in the discipline of choice. Learn more in: The Sloan Consortium

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Refers to applied delivery, instructions, methods of e-resources, ensuring proper technological software, hardware, and internet connections, as well as providing user instruction on how to use these materials effectively. Learn more in: E-Resources Marketing in African Academic Libraries: Contexts, Challenges and Prospects

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It is a process of retrieving or obtaining an information or data. Learn more in: Research Data Management in an Academic Library

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The ability to use media information also applying operational knowledge. Learn more in: Pedagogical Guidelines to Introduce Transmedia Learning into the Classroom: The Brazilian Context

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Ease of contact and information gathering from the online retailer ( Jun et al., 2004 ). Learn more in: Determining Impact of Demographics on Perceived Service Quality in Online Retail

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The privilege of using a computer system or online resource, usually controlled by the issuance of access codes to authorized users. Learn more in: Organizational Password Policy

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The process of establishing and developing relationships with research participants and continuing to develop them to build trust throughout a research study. Learn more in: Language, Participation, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research in Mqatsheni, South Africa

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The method a person uses to control an activity. Learn more in: Switch Technologies

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Employing social justice by developing and making fundamental programs and practices available to all people and society. Learn more in: Marginalized Communities, Curriculum, Children (MC3)

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The ability, the opportunity, or the right to enter or use technology and all that it has to offer in today’s society. Learn more in: Digital Divide

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Inequality which is reflected in terms of the physical infrastructure and availability of technology. Learn more in: Conceptualizing a Contextual Measurement for Digital Divide/s: Using an Integrated Narrative

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Applied universally, access is an outcome in which race, ethnicity, language, gender, ability, socioeconomic status, or other personal characteristics do not limit the opportunity to resources such as learning resources. Learn more in: High-Quality Early Math: Learning and Teaching With Trajectories and Technologies

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A means of gaining entry, in particular, access to higher education opportunities. Learn more in: Online Doctoral Programs: Breaking Down Barriers for Women

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(Related to good interface design): Access means having a computer interface that effectively facilitates user learning (Smith-Jackson & Williges, 2001). Learn more in: A Human Factors View of the Digital Divide

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This is an equal chance available to all citizens to benefit from learning opportunities throughout life. Learn more in: Widening Access to Learning in Cities of the 21st Century

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The availability of records for consultation as a result both of legal authorization and existence of finding aids (International Council on Archives, 2012, p.3). Learn more in: Preserving Endangered Archives Through Open Access: The Role of the Endangered Archive Programme in Africa

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Physical means by which an individual selects a particular symbol or element of a message. Learn more in: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices: The Voices of Adult Users

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A way of entering or engaging with a physical location or space. For the purposes of the chapter, the primary definition is used as a way of engaging with course content and materials. Learn more in: #teachingbydesign: Complicating Accessibility in the Tech-Mediated Classroom

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The availability of records for consultation as a result of both legal authorization and the existence of finding aids ( Pearce-Moses, 2013 ). It is essentially the right, opportunity, or means of finding, using or retrieving information. Learn more in: Global Perspectives on the Challenges and Prospects of Accessing and Using Documentary Heritage

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The process of making museums more open, welcome, understandable, and appealing to a wider range of visitors (e.g., of different ages, educational backgrounds, and socio-demographic groups). Learn more in: Using New Tools to Attract Visitors to Museums and Heritage Sites

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The term refers to the ways in which institutions strive to ensure everyone has equitable opportunities to take full advantage for participation in the society. Learn more in: Changing Socio-Cultural Models and Policy Programs in Rehabilitation of Persons With Communication Disorders

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It refers to the ability, right or permission to approach, enter, speak with or use; admittance. Learn more in: Online Adult Education: Policy, Access, Completion and Equity

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Includes physical and technological access to the course materials and spaces, and the student’s ability to successfully navigate the course content from the perspective of 21st century literacies and traditional literacies. Learn more in: Developmental Writing and MOOCs: Reconsidering Access, Remediation, and Development in Large-Scale Online Writing Instruction

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Teachers’ ability to get functioning hardware and software for their classrooms. Learn more in: An Early Childhood Professional Development Model for Technology Integration: Attending to Internal Barriers

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Online courses expand an institution’s ability to serve students who cannot otherwise attend classes on campus, because of distance or because the individual’s life situation does not allow them to attend campus-based classes on a regular basis. Learn more in: The Administration of Online and Distance Education

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Barrier-free. Learn more in: Social Justice as It Evolves in the LAM Sector: A Content Analysis and Avenues for Future Research

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The ability, permission, or right to use, communicate, or approach something or someone. Learn more in: Rhyme and Reason: The Connections Among Coding, Computational Thinking, and Literacy

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The means to gain entry (to education). Learn more in: You Can't Be What You Can't See: How the Irish Education System Is Supporting Irish Travellers to Participate in ITE Programmes

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The physical proximity to computer technology, electricity, and an Internet signal. Learn more in: Digital Divide

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This is used to define inclusivity at various levels that include the technological, physical, social, and intellectual levels. Learn more in: Dynamics of Disability for South African University Students in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Openness in educational offerings or a lack of barrier or hindrance to accessing education. Learn more in: The State of Access in Open and Distance Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Being able to reach a target. Learn more in: What Are We Missing?

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The ability for everyone to use an item or thing without limitations. Learn more in: Innovative Techniques Used in Zimbabwean Schools to Educate Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Availability of courses, programs and related instructional materials to targeted audiences. Learn more in: Designing and Developing Competency-Based Education Courses Using Standards

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Approach or entrance to a place. Learn more in: Contingency Factors Impacting the Rural Information and Communication Technology Hubs

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The ability to communicate with the facilitator(s) and participants as well as obtaining programming materials either via onsite or online. Learn more in: Access, Relevance, and Inclusivity: Assessing What Matters Most to Virtual Faculty

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Generally used to describe openness in admission practices by universities. Learn more in: Equity and Diversity in the 21st Century University: A Literature Review

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The opportunities, avenues, and ease with which people are able to obtain necessary information, supports, and/or participate in certain spaces. Learn more in: Sólo Tiene Problemas de Aprendizaje: Lessons Learned From Perceptions of Disability and Diagnosis in the Dominican Republic

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When specifically referring to education, access typically refers to the ways in which educational contexts ensure—or at least strive to ensure—that students have equal and equitable opportunities to take full advantage of their education. Learn more in: Case Study of Urban 4th/5th Grade Teachers and Students Engaged With E-Texts

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(Common definition): The availability of a personal computer (i.e, computer hardware) and Internet connectivity. Learn more in: A Human Factors View of the Digital Divide

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Alabama connecting classrooms, educators, and students statewide, which provides opportunities for students to obtain recovery credits and engage in advanced placement courses. Learn more in: Technology-Integrated Curriculum and Students' Academic Performance

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“A means of entrance, the opportunity to reach or use, free of physical and attitudinal barriers. Access for blind individuals means mobility and information (warning textures at curbs, stairs, and hazardous doors; removal of obstacles; Braille elevator buttons). Access for deaf individuals means communication (cooperation, warning lights on fire alarms, text telephones). Access for the mobility impaired and wheelchair users means removal of physical barriers, maneuvering space, clear floor space” (http://www.equal-access.com/equal-access-glossary.html). Learn more in: Accessibility of Technology in Higher Education

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Being allowed to conduct research in an organization, dependent on ongoing cooperation. Learn more in: Data Collection as a Journey: A Multi-Step Approach to Navigating Access to an Organization

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The facility to receive and use. Learn more in: Digitalization for Sustainable Agriculture Production in Marginalized and Remote Communities

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The level of educational opportunity, resources, and support available to students, which varies based on broad demographic variables such as race, primarily language, gender, zip code, SES, parental education, etc. Learn more in: Changing Gears in the Assessment Cycle: Preparing for Gradual yet Substantial Shifts