Inclusive Higher Education Training Program

<< Objectives >>Implementing this project is expected to contribute to a more inclusive higher education system for students with disabilities by training their professors who on previous studies revealed felling unready to instruct them.<< Implementation >>We are going to implement a thorough study of the needs that higher education professors feel to be ready to instruct students with disabilities.A training program and modules content will be developed to tend the needs expressed in inquiries by higher education professors and discussed in focus groups with specialized stakeholders.This program will be held on a trial run for one semester and then assessed so it can be improved before making a final version publicly availabo.<< Results >>The initial study will result in a scientific article presented at an inclusion related European conference where it will impact targets already predisposed to enroll on a training program that best prepares them to instruct students with disabilities or care about producing adapted pedagogic material. Final outputs are a scientific article to disseminate the project findings and an e-learning platform where the program may be publicly available.