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Project
Title:
EasyICT European Certification of ICTSkills for People with Intellectual Disabil
ProjectID:
133948-LLP-2007-PL-Leonardo-LMP
Description:
About the Project
People with intellectual disabilities must be integral part of the society. ICT skills are gateway to today's world and information society also for people with intellectual disability. There are some ICT school programmes for this target group, but majority of young people with disability gets informal education in using new technology. There is a lack of formal structures and tools to assess their ICT skills acquired through formal, non-formal and informal education.
The overall aim of the project is to include people with intellectual disability in the information society and in this way decrease e-skills gap (digital divide) which is being particularly noticeable among this target group. To include people with intellectual disability in the information society means also to make the society aware of such a possibility. The partnership will prepare a diagnostic tool to assess ICT skills of the young people with intellectual disability and then procedures for certification.
Target groups:
youngsters with intellectual disability, who would like to proof their ICT skills
parents who might be interested in measuring the ICT competences of their children with disability
institutions (mainly educational) which would like to start running certificate examinations.
teachers (especially IT teachers), assistants, school managers, and also therapists who run rehabilitation based on ICT
higher education institutions, which may take the decision of becoming certification centres.
Innovative character of the project
New idea - project develops new idea on assessing ICT skills of youngsters with intellectual disability by establishing patterns of assessment and possible ways of certification. The project focuses on practically unexplored subject of ICT for the benefit people with intellectual disability. ICT skills of this target group neither have been formally assessed so far, nor certificated in any way, especially in the framework of internationally recognized certificate. This outcome refers definitely to the second aspect of innovation - new method - nobody tried to assess ICT skills of this group in the scope of the certified examinations and with the support of the online tool. New device - The project will provide youngsters with intellectual disability with online tool which is totally new, created especially for the purpose of the project. The tool will be constructed in a way which will allow even users with no reading skills use it and take benefits of it.
People with intellectual disabilities must be integral part of the society. ICT skills are gateway to today's world and information society also for people with intellectual disability. There are some ICT school programmes for this target group, but majority of young people with disability gets informal education in using new technology. There is a lack of formal structures and tools to assess their ICT skills acquired through formal, non-formal and informal education.
The overall aim of the project is to include people with intellectual disability in the information society and in this way decrease e-skills gap (digital divide) which is being particularly noticeable among this target group. To include people with intellectual disability in the information society means also to make the society aware of such a possibility. The partnership will prepare a diagnostic tool to assess ICT skills of the young people with intellectual disability and then procedures for certification.
Target groups:
youngsters with intellectual disability, who would like to proof their ICT skills
parents who might be interested in measuring the ICT competences of their children with disability
institutions (mainly educational) which would like to start running certificate examinations.
teachers (especially IT teachers), assistants, school managers, and also therapists who run rehabilitation based on ICT
higher education institutions, which may take the decision of becoming certification centres.
Innovative character of the project
New idea - project develops new idea on assessing ICT skills of youngsters with intellectual disability by establishing patterns of assessment and possible ways of certification. The project focuses on practically unexplored subject of ICT for the benefit people with intellectual disability. ICT skills of this target group neither have been formally assessed so far, nor certificated in any way, especially in the framework of internationally recognized certificate. This outcome refers definitely to the second aspect of innovation - new method - nobody tried to assess ICT skills of this group in the scope of the certified examinations and with the support of the online tool. New device - The project will provide youngsters with intellectual disability with online tool which is totally new, created especially for the purpose of the project. The tool will be constructed in a way which will allow even users with no reading skills use it and take benefits of it.
Modified:
10/02/2008
Subject:
Assessment and Certification of ICT skills of youngsters with disability
url:
Coverage:
AUT; BEL; ITA; POL; TUR
audience:
young learners with disability
Life Cycle Status:
develope
Start Date:
12/01/2007
End Date:
11/30/2009
Typology:
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Coordinator
Coordinator contact detail
The details of a organization/person in charge of the coordination of the project (project promoter)
Organization:
Academy of Mangement (Poland) – Coordinator
notes:
The Academy of Management is a private University situated in the second biggest city in Poland, Lodz. It was established by the Association of Polish Educators in January 1995. The Academy offers BA, MA studies and post-graduate courses in following areas: Management and Marketing, International Relations, Banking, Philology, Computer Science. The Academy of Management is the centre of IT studies, since it offers program in Computer Science and organizes number of ICT courses for different target groups (women, unemployed etc). The program in IT offers following specializations: Programming Engineering, Computer networks and systems, Teleinformatics. The student environment is animated by number of IT experts who teach in enlisted specializations. Since the Academy implements internationalization strategy number of international activities are held in the institution such as: student and teaching staff exchange, cooperation with foreign academic centres, organizing international conferences, seminars, etc. Dealing with international dimension on institutional level is facilitated by qualified staff, also by specially developed administrative entities like International Relation Office or International Project Department.
Partners
PARTNER CONTACT DETAILS
organization:
Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen (Belgium)
notes:
KHKempen is a university college with offering bachelor and master degrees in de Kempen, a region in Flanders (Belgium). KHKempen has several research and development projects in the area of easy-to-read language and web site accessibility for people with mental disabilities. As a coordinator and partner KHKempen was involved in several EU-projects. KHKempen can rely on a multidisciplinary team of experts in its 10 departments and has a research group that with ICT and Inclusion as its primary focus. Within this research group (www.k-point.be) several projects, related to the subject are currently running.
organization:
Social Innovative Network Dr. Pretis (Austria)
notes:
S.I.N:N. is an internationally active reseach, counselling and training enterprise, registered in Graz, Austria. S.I.N.N. is primarily dealing with quality management, dissemination and certification in the field of disability, furthermore regarding needs assessment (including market research), evaluation and training for professionals working with disadvantagded groups (children with disability, frontline workers assisting PwD). S.I.N.N. cordinated a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project (www.eqm-pd.com) aiming to increase the quality of professional assistance for PwD and initiating certification processes (via online assessment instrument) for services supporting PwD. S.I.N.N. pays attention to full participation of PwD and aims to include PwD at every stage of the project. Both within eqm-pd and ebiff project S.I.N.N. was faced with certification processes and recognition of (prior) learning processes of professionals. Implementing VET systems therefore is a next logic steps of the development of S.I.N.N. S.I.N.N. understands evaluation and certification as dialogue processes, based on transparence and respect towards the partner. S.I.N.N. primariliy focuses its activities in East European countries.
organization:
Kutahya Local Education Directorate (Turkey)
notes:
Kutahya Local Education Directorate is a public organization which workspaces are providing the sustainability and the efficiency of education. It makes necessary arrangements and audits the schools, the teachers, the process and the quality of the education. In Kutahya province there are 10 schools for mentally disabled students (3 of them are public and 7 of them are private education centres). Totally there are 85 schools which are located in Kutahya province. The teachers of the mentally disabled schools attend ICT courses and in-service trainings which are organized by computer teacher trainers in Kutahya Local Education Directorate.
organization:
Applied Psychology Academy (Italy)
notes:
The Accademia Psicologia Applicata (A.P.A.) is an association formed by psychologists with good competence and experience in the fields of the psychology, psychotherapy, training and research. Association has a team composed of 40 trainers who are specialized psychologists. They implement more than 100 training opportunities for the schools. Association is involved in a lot of training courses as specialist on sensibilitation, information and prevention of psychological disorders on children and adult, as well as health promotion. Its mission is to create a place that can be a point of reference for the personal and professional training and development, to dedicate personal and professional experience to promote cultural integration and health of every man, coherently with the World Health Organization methodology, to work with schools and young people (an area of A.P.A. is specifically equipped for), to be an “info Point” for Youth about EU and youth policies (an area of A.P.A. is specifically equipped for). A.P.A. is also referent of a net of associations and private societies by the manifold competences and sectors of intervention (ICT services, research and development, e-learning, web solution: It area net. Accredited Training Organizations: IDEA; formAzione Europea; Cooperativa Nuovi Orizzonti; Panormus; Acas; Isfordd; Agency for the tourist development: Go Sicily; publicity
Targets
Direct Targets:
Young People
Indirect Targets:
Teachers
Framework
Activity & Participation:
Learning and Applying Knowledge
Environmental Factors:
Product and Technology
Tangible Products
FIRST MATERIAL TITLE:
Description of the ICT skills relevant for young people with intellectual disabi
Abstract:
The set of identified and described skills will be grouped according to the level of disability
Authors:
Jan Dekelver
Date:
09/15/2008
Availabilty:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Type:
Text
Media:
Web
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
de; en; fr; it; pl; others...
Web link:
Download:
SECOND MATERIAL TITLE:
The on-line testing tool
Abstract:
The on-line testing tool will have the following options: definition of competences, creation of test-questions, assign test-questions to a competence test (a competence test consists of several questions, testing a specific competence), assign the competence test to a candidate. The competence test will be supervised by a coach testing tool which will be used by teachers assessing ICT skills of people with intellectual disabilities as well as for those being in charge of administration of certified examinations. The pedagogical part is a base for technicians to develop the tool which will act as a support in assessing ICT skills. Testing portal will work as an interactive assessment tool, while administrative portal will be used by assessors to handle the individual screening and certification process
Authors:
Jan Dekelver
Date:
11/18/2009
Availability:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Media:
Web
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
de; en; fr; it; pl; others...
Web link:
THIRD MATERIAL TITLE:
On-line administrative platform
Abstract:
This portal will be developed in order to facilitate administrators and teachers' work with examinations and testing procedures. The portal will allow all organizations to register clients, choose clients, assign tests to each client or the group of clients, make examination reports and prepare progress reports of each client. Since Administrative portal will be delivered only in English, that is why basic English knowledge is necessary.
Authors:
Jan Dekelver
Date:
11/01/2009
Availability:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Media:
Web
Language:
de; en; fr; it; pl; others...
Web link:
FOURTH MATERIAL TITLE:
Examination procedures and documents
Abstract:
set of procedures which must be obeyed in order to run the examination and to take part in it and set of documents which will be used by applicants to register for the examination (registration form, contract, certificate, etc).
Authors:
Manfred Pretis
Date:
03/01/2009
Availability:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Type:
Text
Media:
Web
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
de; en; fr; it; pl; others...
Web link:
Download:
FIFTH MATERIAL TITLE:
Recommendations on potential certification bodies
Abstract:
set of criteria that institutions have to meet and examples of potential certification bodies, which would run the certificated examinations in each partner country, definition the selection criteria: sector, scope, link to the long term target groups.
Date:
11/01/2009
Availability:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Type:
Text
Media:
Web
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
de; en; fr; it; pl; others...
SIXTH MATERIAL TITLE:
Implementation guide
Abstract:
will consist of two major parts: PART I (General information on the situation of mentally disabled persons with regards to ICT, Description of all ICT skills), PART II (description of the tool which is testing tool and administration portal, description of procedures within the examination process, examples of certificates, contact details, dissemination hints).
Authors:
Manfred Pretis
Date:
03/01/2009
Availability:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Type:
Text
Media:
Web
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
de; en; fr; it; pl; other...
Web link:
Download:
SEVENTH MATERIAL TITLE:
Training programme for teachers, who will provide certification
Abstract:
The training will be delivered in the scope of the project, that is why it is important to develop common training programme which will be used by partners to assure high quality of the training. Training programme will include stetting up the final competences trainees will have, didactical material, content of the training as well as teaching methods.
Date:
03/01/2009
Availability:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
de; en; fr; it; pl; others...
Web link:
Download:
EIGHTH MATERIAL TITLE:
Training materials for teachers
Abstract:
will be available for trainees during the training in paper version. Training materials will include Power Point presentation. After the training is finished they will be available on the internet.
Date:
03/01/2009
Availability:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Media:
Web
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
de; en; fr; it; pl; others...
Web link:
Download:
Intangible Products
FIRST INITIATIVE TITLE:
Cooperation with EDL
Languages:
en
SECOND INITIATIVE TITLE:
Various Conferences
Abstract:
e.g. in Palermo, Geel
Coverage:
AUT; BEL; ITA; POL; TUR
Languages:
en
Sustainability
What factors have been supporting during your work in the project:
motivation of the teachers, sensitivity of school administration
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