DigIn MOOC "Digitalization and Inclusive Education"
As part of the Erasmus+ project "DigIn - Digitalization and Inclusive Education: Leaving no one behind in the digital era", an online course on "Digitalization and Inclusive Education" was developed (DigIn-MOOC). The MOOC is technically supervised by the DigIn team and the iMoox team at TU Graz. The MOOC started on 01.09.2022 and will be paused on January 8, 2023 for possible revisions. The new start date for the DigIn MOOC is May 2023 at the latest.
What can you expect from DigIn MOOC?
This online course was coordinated by experts from the fields of "digitalization" and "inclusion". Digitalization and inclusion present both opportunities and challenges for various education systems and therefore also for staff, teaching and school development. With this MOOC, we want to initiate change processes in everyday school life.
In five modules, the MOOC teaches the basics of universal design, accessibility, user-friendliness, assistive technologies and successful online communication in the multi-professional setting of inclusion. It also offers teaching examples for the use of digital tools in the classroom, the organization of cooperative learning opportunities and ideas for digitally inclusive lesson development.
Who is MOOC for?
The MOOC is aimed at teachers in compulsory education, but also at school assistants, guardians and anyone else interested in inclusive education in the digital age. Through this MOOC, we want to strengthen the skills of teachers and all other interested parties in the field of inclusive digital education.
To the course content
The content is based on the European Union's "European Digital Competence Framework for Educators" (DigiCompEdu), specifically on competence area 5 "Empowering Learners".
This in turn is divided into three areas:
- Digital participation: Ensuring that all learners, including those with disabilities, have access to the digital media and learning activities used; Taking into account learners' (digital) expectations, abilities, prior knowledge and misconceptions, and considering contextual, physical or cognitive limitations when using media.
- Differentiation and individualization: Using digital media to enable learners to achieve their individual learning goals at their own pace and to follow individual learning paths.
- Active involvement of learners: Use digital media to promote learners' active and creative engagement with a topic; use digital media as part of didactic strategies that promote transversal skills, deep thinking and creative learner expression; open up the classroom to create new, real-world learning contexts that engage learners in hands-on activities, scientific inquiry or complex problem solving, or otherwise increase learners' active engagement with complex life-world issues.
These competence formulations provide a good orientation for inclusive teaching with regard to the range of competences required for the didactically meaningful use of digital media to deal with individual learning requirements.
This MOOC is divided into the following modules.
- Module 1: Universal Design for Learning
- Module 2: Accessibility and user-friendliness
- Module 3: Assistive Technologies
- Module 4: Technology-supported inclusive teaching
- Module 5: Socially embedded learning (in an online setting)
Each module is divided into three sub-modules.
All course materials are made available under the open CC BY SA 4.0 license (with the exception of external links and individual separately marked graphics).
Further details about the course
The MOOC was developed under the direction of Edvina Bešić (PHSt) with the DigIn team: Silvana Aureli (PHSt), Martina Kalcher (PPHA), Silvia Kopp-Sixt (PHSt), Barbara Levc (PHSt) and David Wohlhart (PPHA) and developed in terms of content and with the support of project partners Heidrun Demo (UNIBZ), Rosa Bellacicco (UNIBZ), Anna Frizzarin (UNIBZ), Anka Izetbegović (DUGA), Alma Kudra (DUGA), Rozita Petrinska Labudovikj (Education for All) and Milica Timchevska (OOU "Hristijan Karposh").
Available languages
The MOOC is available in the languages: English, German, Italian, Bosnian/Croatian and Macedonian.
Is prior knowledge necessary?
You do not need any prior knowledge of the content for this MOOC. You can work through all the lessons at your own pace. You can join and participate at any time!
DigIn is funded with support from the European Union. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. The Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.