ICT: a Gateway for Future of adult learning
Aims and Objectives
The aims and objectives are:
 | To evaluate the best methods used in the field of ICT for disabled people at European level; |
| To identify, develop and produce learning materials that will improve the methods of using ICT for disabled people; |
| To pilot the materials produced; |
| To develop communication skills by using e-groups, Blogs, chat-rooms etc.; |
| To shape a positive attitude in society towards this marginalized group. |
Activities and lessons learned
The project undertook and shared the results of research into the needs and technologies required to support people with disabilities through a series of partnership meetings in participating countries, the Internet and face-to-face research with people with disabilities and practitioners working with disabled people.
These activities have been concluded by sharing, learning, promoting and applying good and modern practices, experiences and methods; finally leading to the improvement of quality and accessibility of disabled people to education.
Achievements
The main achievements were:
| Greater awareness and shared understanding of what is available in the field of computer and assistive technologies for people with disabilities; |
| Sharing and exchanging examples of good and best practice within the partnership; |
| Development of a bilingual manual of good practices written in English and in the native language of the participating countries, published on paper and on the Internet – a Website and Web Blog will be specially created for this purpose. |
Materials produced
The end product will be a bilingual manual of good practices written in English and in the native language of the participating countries, published on paper and on the Internet – a Website and Web Blog will be specially created for this purpose.
Web and computer based information is available through partnership websites. See, for example, http://www.tfei.org.uk
PowerPoint presentations have been used to share the research and highlight the issues to be considered when supporting disabled people.
Partnership organisations / countries
Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Lithuania and UK are involved including not for profit / non-governmental organisations, training and support providers for people with disabilities, e-learning developers, providers of adult education and/or continuing education.
Learner involvement
Learners are involved in the project at all times through the completion of questionnaires, sharing their experiences, attending partnership meetings when appropriate, sharing their work with others, accessing the web facilities developed as part of the project, and disseminating outcomes and results through their associated organisations.
Impact
On the organisation, staff, adult learners and outside organisations
Through the project activities, TFEI and its associates including staff,
adult learners and non-governmental organisations have gained:
| A panoramic view of the existing situation in Europe regarding the use of computers in education for disabled people in non-formal and informal education; |
| Knowledge of the best practices used in this field through contributing to the production of a manual of good practices to be used in the institutions involved and in all the similar institutions interested in the topic; |
| Recognition of common and shared practice through working with a new range of European partners from different countries and backgrounds. |
Contact details
Name, organisation and address:
The Foundation for European Initiatives
16 Brough RoadSouth
CaveEast
Yorkshire
HU15 2BX
Telephone no.:01482 651695
Email: info@tfei.org.uk
Classification data
Focus of project
| Active citizenship | |
| Essential skills | |
| Inter-generational learning | |
| Cultural/multi-cultural | |
| ICT and learning | X |
| Foreign languages | |
| Other* |
Project Type: Grundtvig 2 (Learning Partnerships)
| East Midlands | |
| East of England | |
| London | X |
| North East | |
| Northern Ireland | |
| North West | |
| Scotland | |
| South East | X |
| South West | |
| Wales | |
| West Midlands | |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | X |
