Jan Steyaert

Web-Based Higher Education: The Inclusion/Exclusion Paradox

SUMMARY Increasingly, education is delivered through computers and the internet. This article highlights that while such development is beneficial for some students with functional impairments, it might be excluding others if insufficient attention is paid to accessibility. Both the electronic learning environment (Blackboard, WebCT and the like) as well as the content author need to design for accessibility.

Social services, social work, and information management: Some european perspectives

Abstract Social services are entering the information society. Over the past decades, information technology applications have slowly permeated service agencies. Although originally the domain of administrative and management staff, now core operational staff are also confronted with making increased use of technology. The way information management in human services is shaped is not only dependent upon technology, but increasingly seems to result from an interaction between social policy developments and information technology opportunities. Similarly, social policy developments are shaped by the existing information management infrastructure. One of the purposes of this paper is to explore–taking social services and social work as the exemplar, and mainly drawing upon experiences from the UK and the Netherlands–the relationship between new technology and the policy environment. We also reflect on whether or not this relationship is more complex than indicated by globalization and related post-Fordist th...

Meervoudige verantwoording: Hulp aan Huis effectief

SamenvattingSinds Bradford Hill in de UK het belang van het klinisch experiment in de ge-zondheidszorg onder de aandacht bracht en David Sackett succesvol pleitbezor-ger werd van Evidence Based Medicine, willen allerlei sectoren zich evidence based maken. Verpleegkunde, logopedie, verslavingszorg en ook maatschap-pelijk werk. Wie niet evidence based is, wordt al snel in het hoekje van de kwak-zalvers geplaatst en verliest status. Toch is er meer nodig om de sociale sector status terug te geven.

ONLINE BOOKS: CONVERGENCE BETWEEN BOOKS AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Reviews in JTHS are divided into Book Reviews, WWW Sites Reviews, and Software/CD-ROM Reviews with each section having its own Associate Editor. Good structure, you would think, were it not that these different information platforms tend to blend and converge. This review of three online books illustrates this convergence. Let’s face the truth. Over the past decennia or even centuries, academic publishers have been an organized, legitimate rip-off for academicians and scholars. We academicians provide publishers with texts for free or for a symbolic royalty. We then buy texts back at a very high and ever increasing price. Our only reward, unless we’re lucky