Contingut del curs

This MOOC aims to strengthen the competences of teachers and all those interested in the field of digital inclusive education in order to enable students with disabilities to participate in media-based education. The content is based on the "European Framework for Digital Competence for Educators" of the European Union (DigiCompEdu), specifically on the competence area five "Empowering Learners." This area focuses on three distinct aspects of educators’ professional activities:

• Accessibility and inclusion: To ensure accessibility to learning resources and activities, for all learners, including those with special needs. To consider and respond to learners’ (digital) expectations, abilities, uses and misconceptions, as well as contextual, physical, or cognitive constraints to their use of digital technologies.

• Differentiation and personalization: To use digital technologies to address learners’ diverse learning needs, by allowing learners to advance at different levels and speeds, and to follow individual learning pathways and objectives.

• Actively engaging learners: To use digital technologies to foster learners’ active and creative engagement with a subject matter. To use digital technologies within pedagogic strategies that foster learners’ transversal skills, deep thinking, and creative expression. To open up learning to new, real-world contexts, which involve learners themselves in hands-on activities, scientific investigation, or complex problem solving, or in other ways increase learners’ active involvement in complex subject matters.

• Module 1: Universal Design for Learning
  
• Module 2: Accessibility and Usability
• Module 3: Assistive Technologies     
• Module 4: Digital Technology for Inclusive Education    
• Module 5: Socially Embedded Learning  (online)   
  

Objectius del curs

After completing this MOOC, learners:

• Appreciate the contextual, physical, or cognitive constraints to their use of digital technologies.
• Understand the importance of a equitable access to appropriate digital technologies and resources.
• Can employ digital technologies and strategies (e.g., assistive technologies) designed for learners with disabilities.
• Can consider and respond to potential accessibility issues when selecting, modifying, or creating digital resources.
• Understand design principles for increasing accessibility to resources and digital environments used in teaching, and can implement and apply them successfully.
• Can continuously monitor and reflect on the suitability of the measures implemented to improve accessibility and adapt strategies accordingly.
• Understand how to use digital technologies to visualize and explain new concepts in a motivating and engaging way.
• Can use digital technologies to allow learners to actively engage with the subject matter at hand, e.g. using different senses. In this way I put learners’ active uses of digital technologies at the center of the instructional process.
• Can select appropriate digital technologies for fostering active learning in a given learning context (e.g., cooperative learning).
• Can reflect on how suitable the different digital technologies used are in increasing learners’ active learning and adapt strategies and choices accordingly.

Coneixements previs

There are no pre-requisites for taking the course. Regarding technical requirements, you should be able to effectively use the most common internet applications. All videos are subtitled. In addition, there are readings in all project languages with the aim of written translation, description, or texts for accessibility.

Funcionament del curs

Diploma

For actively participating in the course you will receive an automatic certificate which includes your username, the course name as well as the completed lessons. We want to point out that this certificate merely confirms that the user answered at least 75% of the self-assessment questions correctly.For actively participating in the course, you will receive an automatic certificate that includes your username, the course name, and the completed lessons. We want to point out that this certificate merely confirms that the user answered at least 75% of the self-assessment questions correctly.

Llicència

Visit also our project website: Digitalisation and inclusive education (digin-education.at)

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