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Invitation to the workshop Creating a Tool to Support Inclusive Distance Learning (eTeACHERS)

Are you a teacher or student support service staff member interested in increasing your knowledge about inclusive distance education? Join us for a workshop that will take place on the 20th of April at the Faculty of Education of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid.

The workshop is being organised as part of the eTeACHERS (electronic Toolkit for eAccessibility in Higher Education Remote Settings) project, co-financed by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The workshop will present the project and validate the initial prototype for the online toolkit that is being developed to support inclusive distance learning.

Agenda

  • 10:00 – 11:30: Presentation of the project
    1. Welcome by Jesús G. Boticario, Vice-Rector for Digitalization and Innovation at UNED.
    2. Introduction to the eTeACHERS project, by Valentín Salinas-López.
    3. Results of the survey to professors and technicians from European universities, by Emmanuelle Gutiérrez and Restrepo.
    4. Results of the collection and selection of relevant resources, best practices, software and open educational resources; by Radek Pavlíček.
  • 11:30 – 12:00: Coffee Break and space for networking.
  • 12:00 – 13:30 Toolkit user test: User testing and validation of the online Toolkit, by Jon Switters and Valentín Salinas-López.

Participation

To participate, please use the registration form and indicate if you are going to attend:

  • in person, by going to the auditorium of the Faculty of Education of the UNED which is located at C. de Juan del Rosal, 14, 28040 Madrid, Spain (registration until 13th of April) or,
  • remotely, using the link that is sent to those registered in the days prior to the event (registration until 18th of April).

Don’t miss out, join us to learn more about the project and have your say!

DIGITALEUROPE: Webinar on the accessibility of eLearning solutions in crisis times

In the context of the EU-funded project ACCESSIBILITECH, DIGITALEUROPE is organising a webinar The Accessibility of eLearning solutions in crisis times.

This webinar is dedicated to discussing the state-of-play regarding accessibility and user-centered design of eLearning solutions and their relevance in crisis times.

Join this webinar to know more about the accessibility of eLearning environments, the existing barriers, the policy context, and possible solutions that can improve students‘ experience at the risk of exclusion.

Agenda

Introduction and moderation: Jose Martinez, Senior Project Manager, DIGITALEUROPE

  • The end-user perspective: key barriers that students with disability are experiencing when interacting with e-learning contexts
    • Loredana Dicsi, Membership, Internal Communications and Youth Officer at European Disability Forum
    • František Milan, Student at Masaryk University
  • The European perspective on e-learning: standards, policy and regulation
    • Susanna Laurin, Research and Innovation Officer at Funka
  • Strategies to address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic situation on eLearning
    • Radek Pavlíček, Senior Accessibility Specialist at Masaryk University

Webinar at glance

Date: 30 March 2022, 10:00-11:30 CEST
Place: Online (Zoom)
Event page: www.digitaleurope.org/events/webinar-the-accessibility-of-elearning-solutions-in-crisis-times
Registration (free of charge): zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R5loAkRqScKzC6bzniHMlg

Register for webinar The Accessibility of eLearning Solutions in Crisis Times