Training courses on barrier-free university teaching
Barrier-free university teaching? Disabled and chronically ill students in my course
Friday, 16.05.2025 and Friday, 25.05.2025, 9:30-13:00, online
or
Friday, 18.07.2025, 9:30-13:00 and Friday, 25.07.2025, 9:30-13:00
Lecturer: Ingo Binder
Are there hardly any disabled and chronically ill students at your university?
Current studies show that only 4% of all students with disabilities have a recognisable impairment at first glance. In contrast, however, more than one in ten students suffers from a disability or chronic illness. The German Rectors' Conference requires all universities to take the needs of students with disabilities or chronic illnesses into account in their teaching.
This event will give you an initial overview of various visible and invisible impairments. You will learn what tasks lecturers have when dealing with chronically ill and disabled students. Using case studies, you will receive practical tips on how to deal with the handicaps of your students in everyday teaching. Finally, you will take a critical look at possible compensation for disadvantages in examinations and assessments.
The following topics will be dealt with in detail:
- Legal foundations of barrier-free university teaching
- Different impairments of students and their effects on everyday university life
- Tips for implementing accessible university teaching
- Compensation for disadvantages for disabled and chronically ill students during examinations
The participants
- distinguish between different forms of heterogeneity that influence students' learning behaviour,
- take findings on the effects of (subject-specific) heterogeneity into account when planning their lessons,
- specifically apply methods for differentiated lesson planning in their courses,
- are aware of the limits of differentiated lesson planning.
Differentiation - dealing with heterogeneity in courses (can optionally be credited towards the certificate "Inclusive university teaching" instead of the online course "Designing barrier-free online teaching")
Monday, 19.05.2025, 9:30-17:30, presence University of Augsburg
Lecturer: Dr Katharina Gebhardt
Courses are often very heterogeneous in terms of their participant composition. In addition to different student learning styles and socio-cultural backgrounds, students' different prior subject knowledge is increasingly playing a decisive role in the success or failure of a course. Lecturers are faced with the question of how to deal with the different circumstances within a group of participants and how to best facilitate effective learning on this basis.
The following topics will be dealt with in detail:
- Forms of heterogeneity that influence the learning behaviour of students
- Consequences of (subject-specific) heterogeneity in courses
- Methods for dealing with (subject-specific) heterogeneity - Differentiated lesson design
- Limits of differentiated lesson organisation
The participants
- distinguish between different forms of heterogeneity that influence students' learning behaviour,
- take findings on the effects of (subject-specific) heterogeneity into account when planning their lessons,
- specifically apply methods for differentiated lesson planning in their courses,
- are aware of the limits of differentiated lesson planning.
