New perspectives for Inclusive University Teaching: EduPlan4Inclusion

Abstract

This paper presents a pilot project, developing at the University of Macerata and of the University Arizona, that is called "EduPlan4Inclusion", oriented to implement accessibility in academic contents for all students, through the use of technology. The project wants to highlight the possible direction for Universities to balance the demands of an inclusive curriculum to a diverse student cohort within a technology-rich environment. In conclusion, the research proposes in this paper can be used to directly guide the reform of curriculum design and teaching methods in Colleges and Universities, with the aim to activate the possibility of implementing a more shared inclusive culture

Specific Learning Disorders in Higher Education: The University of Arizona case study

“…Emancipatory research could therefore represent an effective approach to detect the indicators that determine the quality of inclusion, highlighting, for example, the need to introduce any changes and measures to improve and optimize human, material, educational, and technological resources. By adopting the paradigm of inclusion, in the transformation of students with disabilities from passive users of services to protagonists, an improvement in the services themselves would be achieved (Giaconi et al, 2020). As already specified in other works (Giaconi et al, Copyright © FrancoAngeli This work is released under Creative Commons Attribution -Non-Commercial -No Derivatives License.…”