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) organises 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 focusses on “Lifelong learning in higher education”, directly related to the concept raised within the project of “Accessible Lifelong Learning”.

Partners of the consortium will talk 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 will be exchanged and participation is welcome from all groups.
The Conference takes place at 18 – 19 September in Poitiers, France where people from academia and professionals in e-learning and Higher Education are expected to attend. 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 will give presentations on 19 September from 11:00 to 12:30, in the session “Open Educational Resources in a lifelong learning context”…

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) organises 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 focusses on “Lifelong learning in higher education”, directly related to the concept raised within the project of “Accessible Lifelong Learning”.

Partners of the consortium will talk 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 will be exchanged and participation is welcome from all groups.

The Conference takes place at 18 – 19 September in Poitiers, France where people from academia and professionals in e-learning and Higher Education are expected to attend. 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 will give 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”

All people with interest in the areas of lifelong learning and supporting students with special needs and elderly are invited to attend 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, are invited to advance the exchange of information and developments and allowing the sharing of distinctive experience, expertise, concerns, views and ideas.

Pre-registration is mandatory to attend the conference and the workshop. You can register from the conference web site at www.eadtu.nl/conference-2008

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

Kareem Monem
Communication & Fund Raising Manager
e-ISOTIS Athens Headquarters
40 Klitaimnistras
Athens 131 22
Greece
Phone:+30 210 2693760
Fax:+30 210 2693775

e-ISOTIS is a non-profit making organisation founded in January 2004, that works for People with Disabilities, their families as well as key players of the ICT (Information Communication Technology) and training/research community from the whole globe. Currently, its network of disabled and elderly individuals as end-users, associations of disabled and elderly, ICT industry players, training/research institutions and universities expands not only through the whole Europe but also in Australia, China, US as well as in many other non-European countries.

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