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An exciting and eventful week is passing. Nine SHUFFLE members set off for the Czech Republic to advance our project with new ideas and suggestions in their luggage. The trip took us first to the Teiresias Centre of the Masaryk University in Brno. This central facility provides individual support for students with disabilities and communication […]
For six years now, Bi.teach – Teaching Day has been held annually at Bielefeld University. On this day, teaching is examined more closely across the faculties and the possibilities and limitations of a particular topic are discussed. This year, the focus of the day was “Sustainable(-ness) teaching and learning – making teaching sustainable”. Thus, on […]
Between October 2021 and October 2022, eight members of the SHUFFLE team have written and passed digital accessibility exams set by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). Seven team members gained the Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) credential, which is a foundational certification representing broad knowledge of accessibility, universal design, and related […]
On September 28, 2022, hybrid held the final presentation and award ceremony for the student project ACCESS. From ten participant teams, three winning teams were selected by the jury and their development tools were awarded. In the summer semester of 2022, the computer science students had each developed prototypes of a checking platform that teachers […]
SHUFFLE is there! This time in the form of a poster presentation at the conference of the Media Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), which took place at Bielefeld University in September 2022. The focus of our poster was the results of the teacher survey of our empirical data from AP01. […]
The Netzwerk digitale Hochschullehre Hessen invited on Friday, 16.09.22 to present and discuss innovative projects, exciting concepts for accessible digital teaching and all other activities around accessibility in digital (higher) education. The SHUFFLE team was abundantly represented. In two presentations and one workshop we presented and discussed our experiences and results from the last year. […]
Last week we had exciting conversations with different experts from all over Germany in work package 02. In the first conversation, we gained a variety of insights into the activities of our experts in advising students, especially those with chronic illnesses and disabilities. It was about what they (can) offer students as well as about […]
After a longer break due to the Covid situation, we managed to meet again in presence in Stuttgart on September 08 and 09 for our one year anniversary. We spent the two days together intensively discussing topics and recapitulating the last year. In addition, we were able to strengthen our team during this time and […]
The evaluation of the data collected has now finally been completed. One of the central questions was “How can we support teachers in designing digital teaching for all? We wanted to find out what teachers want, what disturbs them, and what part support measures on our part can play. We would like to take this […]
From 29.04. to 30.04.22 the 5th workshop “accessible documents” took place at the University of Hamburg. On two days, discussion rounds and practical workshops were held around the topic of digital accessibility with a focus on accessible documents. SHUFFLE was also represented and presented first findings from the surveys and interviews that were conducted in […]
The University of Education in Freiburg is currently working on an ILIAS training room in order to support instructors in the creation of accessible learning materials and the design of an accessible learning environment on ILIAS, the open source learning management software. This training rooms allow instructors to work through different learning modules that cover […]
In this video, we introduce the basic principles and assumptions of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). However, the model is too complex for a complete presentation. Universal Design for Learning is based on the Universal Design model. Please note, the video features German audio and text with English closed captions available. If you want to […]
As a part of SHUFFLE, students of a software group project at Bielefeld University are developing a testing tool to test learning spaces in learning management systems for accessibility. Thereby 10 teams consisting of 8-12 students compete against each other. The best testing tool will be selected at the award ceremony at the end of […]
Als Teil von Arbeitspaket 6 möchten wir Personas gestalten, die Barrieren im Studium sichtbar machen und Strategien der Studierenden aufzeigen. Natürlich können wir das nicht alleine – deshalb haben wir am Freitag, den 25.02.2022. zu einem Design Thinking Workshop eingeladen, um die Grundlagen für unsere Personas zu legen. Wir waren insgesamt 12 Teilnehmende, darunter Expert*Innen […]
Making digital teaching sustainable has not only been a central concern of Bielefeld university since the corona pandemic. As early as 2018, the university initiated a comprehensive strategy process in which teachers and students worked together to develop key points on how they envision teaching and learning settings at the university in the long term. […]
Today we are proud to announce the official launch of the quantitative needs survey from work package 1! Our survey is aimed at students and teachers: The student survey aims to identify barriers in digital teaching-learning contexts and related individual needs. With the help of the teacher survey, insights into previous knowledge and experience, further […]
Now it really begins. Since August we have been diligently working together with all our project partners, focussing on the first Work Package mainly. Soon we will finalize questionnaires for students and lecturers at our universities. The aim is to identify all digital barriers we currently face in our institutions. Stay tuned!
