1. DARe-Learning
How to train academic teachers
in the field of disability awareness?
Małgorzata Perdeus
Ireneusz Białek
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

3. „The academic triangle”
Student
Academic
teachers
Disability
Support
Service

4. JU DSS offer
− Organization of courses and exams in adapted
forms;
− Development of educational support strategies;
− English language classes for blind, partially
sighted, deaf and hard of hearing students;
− Counseling in terms of advanced technological
solutions and adaptation;
− Specialist training, e.g. on handling and use
of assistive technologies;
− Co-operation between disability consultants and
academic teachers.

5. Disability Awareness – a New Challenges
for Employees
• DARE 2007-2009
academic teachers & administrative staff
• DARE2 2009-2011
academic teachers & managers of SME
Disability Awareness of Academic Teachers:
Improvements through E-Learning
• DARe-Learning 2011-2013
academic teachers

7. Partners
DARe-Learning

8. Our learners – who they are?
−University teachers – most of them are
PhD students;
−Professionals in their fields;
−They have no knowledge about disability;
−They want to help students, but usually
they don’t know how;
−They want to keep high level of their
work.

9. In-class workshop
e-Learning module
Web portal
DAReLearning.eu

10. In-class workshop
− Enhancing qualifications concerning knowledge
about different barriers in a social life
of disabled people;
− Decreasing of social stereotypes and
prejudices about disabled people;
− Decreasing of fear in a contact with disabled
people;
− Changing the way of thinking about disabled
people: not as objects of charity, but as
subjects of a social life.

11. e-Learning module
– Moodle;
– Basic information
about different kinds
of disabilities;
– Detailed tips for
teachers;
– Games and exercises
concerning methods
of adaptations.

12. Web portal
−Inspirations;
−About the training;
−Basic tips for
teachers;
−Publications;
−Disability language;
−About DARE projects.

13. Ireneusz Bialek
Ireneusz.bialek@uj.edu.pl
Małgorzata Perdeus
malgorzata.perdeus-bialek@uj.edu.pl
Disability Awareness of Academic Teachers:
Improvements through E-Learning
DARe-learning