ICEM Conference 2017

In the last 17  years SinAOSI  adopted a multidisciplinary approach for designing  personalised  projects  for inclusion of different students, mostly by using technology and recently multimedia and audio/video recordings of lessons.
Generally  the  main items are:
-    Multidisciplinary personalized  project’s design by a professional team skilled in different areas: Psychology, Pedagogy, and Technology; one of the team is appointed as Case Manager for the student.
-    Project sharing and awareness with professors, by the pedagogic and/or by the Case Manager.
-    Volunteers’ staff from  National Civil Service who spend one year of apprenticeship in the SINAPSI Centre) for supporting students with the disability in their daily life inside the college (participation at university life and at lessons). The volunteers represent an important contribution that makes the personalized project effective and sustainable in the university life cycle.
-    Home study. The student with  disability receives  the textbooks and the education material in the digital format compatible with the computer and assistive technologies that he needs to. In the case he cannot attend, for different reasons, the lesson, he makes use of lessons audio-video recordings. This arrangement allows the student to watch any lesson, totally or partially, one or more times.
-    For the examinations students, on the basis of his own needs,  can make use of different special devices like, for instance, a graphic tablet connected to a computer or special magnify software connected to a wide screen (50-inch screen). Normally the student receives the examination outline as the file from the professor and develops it by different software programs. The large size monitor and assistive technologies allow to get video magnification and enhancement (filtering, contrast’s improvement, colors’ changes, etc).
Some technical issues for discussions are:
How self-casting software can contribute to making easy the Lessons Video Recording
Video Recording arrangement.
How to manage the teacher  resistance
Special equipment to be used for different disabilities.
Video recordings distribution and management
Privacy issues

Generally, many different approaches have been  used for inclusion personalized projects; as a final outcome, we can see that:
Good level of inclusion reached. The student can lives daily relations with colleagues and professors, inside the classrooms as in the other college’s places.
Good level of educational outcome. The audio/video recordings represent a significant integration and improve the didactic performance and above all the students’ quality of life.
The video recordings and self-casting revealed to be effective for producing didactic material; 
The combination of video, audio and educational material in a format compatible with assistive technologies represents a remarkable way to guarantee the effectiveness of teaching activities for all the students with disabilities and special educational needs, students with learning disabilities, or also workers students.
Many resistance problems    still exists from many  teachers, some, on the contrary, are happy to use the video recordings as the basis  for creation of their own  MOOCs
This approach, useful for students with a disability, may represent an opportunity also for all the other students that could meet some difficulties because of their condition (workers students) or learning disabilities!  The same material produced for a student with disabilities, due to the current legislation, in fact, may be useful also for all other, using MOOC approach.