Education is a basic right and essential for both self-development and access to employment.  However, many disabled people experience barriers to accessing education and consequently have fewer opportunities than non-disabled people.  Approaches to overcoming these barriers include the use of technology, changes in attitudes and legislation.  The focus of this session will be ICT-based learning technologies to support inclusive education and the associated pedagogical issues which can act as barriers or enablers.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

• Case studies of new technologies and good practice.
• Critical evaluations of existing technologies
• Approaches to designing new technologies
• Accessibility, usability and support issues
• Design for all approaches.
• Classification and evaluation
• Pedagogical issues
• International comparisons.
• Accessible multi-media
• Mobile learning technologies
• Educational games
• Methods and tools to support inclusive education
• Design of accessible electronic materials and eBooks
• Voice interaction and personal assistants
• Robots interaction to support and favorite inclusive education

This STS is organised in cooperation with the EU-cofunded project RADAR:Vocational Guidance and Employability for Blind and Partially Sighted People, Code 2019-1-IT01-KA202-007396 - CUP G15G19000150006

Chairs

• 
  Marion Hersh, University of Glasgow
• 
  Barbara Leporini, ISTI – CNR