Future opportunities for accessible Higher Education
Best Practices in Universal Design for eLearning in Higher Education - a conference will be held at the Ģֱ 28.-29.8.2019.
More and more education is now delivered online. Online courses are offered as a part of higher education and also as part of open or distance university programmes. Online courses support courses for everyone - all kinds of students. For learning materials this means a change from physical textbooks to digital materials. As well as increasing the accessibility in the materials, this also brings huge possibilities to create different types of learning materials, by adding multimedia and different ways of interacting and learning.
The conference approaches accessibility from a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) perspective - which proposes that each student should have the possibility to learn by methods best suited to them. Join us at the conference to discuss and study how learning materials should be developed and what sorts of processes can support a diversity of HE students in their studies.
Speakers include:
- Chetz Colwell, Open University, UK: “Embedding accessibility in learning and teaching: why and how”
- Paula Ranne, the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA): “Quality assurance supporting flexible learning paths – views from the European Higher Education Area”
- Elinor Olaussen, National Coordinator for inclusion, Universal Design and accessibility in Higher Education, Norway: “Accessibility and Universal Design in higher education – what we have learned in Norway”
During Spring 2019 the TINEL project has been collecting initiatives and practices promoting inclusive eLearning in higher education in Finland, Norway, Sweden and the UK. The best initiatives and practices submitted to an Open Call on this topic will be presented and rewarded at the conference.
The conference is being held as part of the Towards Inclusive eLearning: Improving Accessibility of eLearning in Higher Education from Universal Design for Learning perspective (TINEL) project (Erasmus+). The project is coordinated by Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) and conducted in cooperation with six partners: The Association of Finnish eLearning Centre (NGO), Ģֱ from Finland, Lund University from Sweden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from Norway and University of York from the United Kingdom.
Additional information
Tarja Ladonlahti
Ģֱ, Finland
tarja.ladonlahti@jyu.fi
p. +358 40 576 7754
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