DIVERSASIA: Embracing diversity in ASIA through the adoption of Inclusive Open Practices Erasmus Project

Project Title

DIVERSASIA: Embracing diversity in ASIA through the adoption of Inclusive Open Practices

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Disabled students have limited access to HE in India and Bangladesh. This project aims to tackle this issue by making accessible HE OERs and MOOCs, and personalisation using AI, that will enable better provision of open distance learning for those that experience architectural barriers.DIVERSASIA will build capacity of 2 HEI in India (P2+P3) and 2 HEI in Bangladesh (P4+P5) to integrate these students that have disabilities using know-how and ian nclusive education toolkit developed by experienced inclusive education experts from UK (P1), BG (P6+P10), BE (P11), LV (P8), TR (P7) and RS (P9) including:-DIVERSASIA handbook which will suggest strategies that overcome the issues of inclusion, diversity and cultural differences in 21st century HEIs in Asia.-INNOVATIVE TOOLKIT with guidelines, checklists, best/good practices to implement universal design of learning.-INNOVATIVE ASESSMENT AND VALIDATION STRATEGY for OERs (SCORM) and MOOCs to review and assess their level of accessibility and to enable further revision to reach certain accessibility level. THE PROJECT RESULTS AND IMPACT WILL ENSURE THE PROVISION OF:- Inclusive education guidelines consisting of flexible, broad educational and extracurricular options.- Student-centred, personalised/individualized instruction and course selection based on assessment of engagement using AI technologies.- All written materials including OERs and MOOCs which are provided to students will be validated and further enhanced based on guidelines and recommendations provided by a dedicated toolkit.- Participating universities from India and Bangladesh (and through their national networks for dissemination and exploitation) will become fully accessible in terms of provision of digital content – this will further enable the improvement of distance courses that will allow students with disabilities to access HE (especially those that experience architectural and physical barriers to access in HE).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 1000000 Eur

Project Coordinator

THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY & Country: UK

Project Partners

• BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
• PHOENIXKM
• PLOVDIVSKI UNIVERSITET PAISIY HILENDARSKI
• GAZI UNIVERSITESI
• LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATE
• SOFTQNR D.O.O.
• SDRUZENIJE NA NA RABOTESHTITE S HORA S UVREZHDANIYA