EU4ALL workshop organised in EADTU Annual Conference 08

Open education environments through participation in online virtual communities for students with special needs and older students.

The EU4ALL project consortium www.eu4all-project.eu organised the 2nd workshop in the EADTU’s annual conference (www.eadtu.nl/conference-2008) after the success of the 1st wrokshop in last year’s EADTU conference. This year’s EADTU confernece focussed on “Lifelong learning in higher education”, directly related to the concept raised within the project of “Accessible Lifelong Learning”.

Partners of the consortium talked about the project’s activities and products in the context of Open Education Environments in Higher Education, for supporting students with special needs and older students. What is the present situation and future prospects? Trends and best practices were exchanged.

The Conference took place at 18 – 19 September in Poitiers, France where people from academia and professionals in e-learning and Higher Education attended. In EADTU’s conference, the non-profit makeing organisation e-ISOTIS (Information Society Open To Impairements), the University of York and the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia gave presentations on 19 September from 11:00 to 12:30, in the session “Open Educational Resources in a lifelong learning context” under the following titles:

Open education environments through participation in online virtual communities for students with special needs and older students.

The EU4ALL project consortium (www.eu4all-project.eu) organised the 2nd workshop in the EADTU’s annual conference (www.eadtu.nl/conference-2008) after the success of the 1st wrokshop in last year’s EADTU conference. This year’s EADTU confernece focussed on “Lifelong learning in higher education”, directly related to the concept raised within the project of “Accessible Lifelong Learning”.

Partners of the consortium talked about the project’s activities and products in the context of Open Education Environments in Higher Education, for supporting students with special needs and older students. What is the present situation and future prospects? Trends and best practices were exchanged.

The Conference took place at 18 – 19 September in Poitiers, France where people from academia and professionals in e-learning and Higher Education attended. In EADTU’s conference, the non-profit organisation e-ISOTIS (Information Society Open To Impairements), the University of York and the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia gave presentations on 19 September from 11:00 to 12:30, in the session “Open Educational Resources in a lifelong learning context” under the following titles:
“Supporting students with disabilities and older students in higher education through virtual communities”
“Design and use of an online community for students with disabilities-the UNED experience”
“Instruments for advancing participation in the open education environment”

People with interest in the areas of lifelong learning and supporting students with special needs and elderly attended the workshop. People with disabilities and elderly, training service and content providers, system developers (s/w), research institutes, educational institutes, media, academics, scientists, assistive technology developers and providers as well as practitioners who work in the field of e-Learning, Lifelong Learning and Design for All for people with disabilities, were encouraged to advance the exchange of information and developments and allowing the sharing of distinctive experience, expertise, concerns, views and ideas.

For more information contact : eu4all@e-isotis.org

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