One area with greater relevance to use ICT is educational context, because with them, it will compensate the adequacy to the needs and characteristics of the students. Now, one of the problems facing the future teachers for their incorporation into educational practice is to have acceptable levels of training, both in regards to its technological and instrumental knowledge as with respect to its methodological and strategic dominance. Through different research, we know the importance of using ICT in educational context, even more if we refer to the use of ICT for people with disabilities. We as educators and teachers, we as parents, we responsible leaders of associations are talking and trying to promote school for all since long time, in a word, Inclusion.TELESEICT was created keeping in mind the need for training future teachers in ICT connected to special needs education, because we feel the relevance and importance of be aware of these powerful tools. The general objective pursued is to raise the digital competence of the future teachers, for the use of good practices with persons with special educational needs arising from disability. Therefore, the project focuses on the use of ICT applied to people with disability functional diversity in teaching and learning processes. To do this, we start from a diagnostic questionnaire about ICT and SEN, we obtained near 1700 answers from HEI students (future teachers) in 10 participating European countries. The necessary improvement after the analyse of questionnaires will be carried out through the design, production and evaluation of a several activities. Among several activities we will define a massive online open course with six large modules: General aspects of Disability; Intellectual Disability, Physical Disability, Hearing Loss and Deafness, Vision Loss and Blindness and Accessibility in all languagues of participating countries plus English language. The applications for smartphones in all important operating systems (IOS, Android and Windows Mobile 10) will grant the access to everyone, everywhere at any time, in a multilanguage platform. The project leads to the development and dissemination of educational materials considered as best practices with ICT applied to disability. The final events, Symposium of Good Practices and International Congress will be able to open even more the networking of TELESEICT across Europe and worldwide to a vast people target-group.
The TELESEICT project is the result of a successful partnership between 11 HEI from 10 EU countries, whose main goal was to fill the gap in using ICT tools in an educational context by future teachers. However, during its implementation, the partners realised the need for extending it to other public besides the future teachers. The use of ICT tools in the educational context will compensate the adequacy to the needs and characteristics of the students. Since the project was focused on the use of ICT applied to people with disability functional diversity in teaching and learning processes, we started with a diagnostic questionnaire about ICT and SEN, having obtained approximately 1700 answers from HEI students (future teachers) from the 10 European partners of the consortium. In order to obtain the expected results (O1, O2, O3, O4 and O5) different activities were undertaken, such as: 2 Intensive Programs (Portugal and Turkey) with all partners; 5 transnational meetings along the 3 years project to continuously proceed with the analysis of the project; in more restricted groups (regional groups) 8 teaching/learning/training activities; a Symposium of Good Practices (E1-Multiplier Event) in Hungary and an International Congress (E2-Multiplier Event) in Spain. The results within TELESEICT project were: 1-the construction of an online platform with the modules “Intellectual Disability”, “Physical Disability”, “Hearing Loss and Deafness”, “Vision Loss and Blindness” in all languages of participating countries, plus in English language; 2-The application for smartphone in all important operating systems (IOS, Android and Windows Mobile 10) which will grant the access to everyone, everywhere at any time, in a multilanguage platform; 3-edition and publication of a Guide of Good Practices in English. All partners consider that the impact of this project in the future will be enormous, due to several factors, such as the constructed online platform, available for everyone to search and share content, the distinct mobile applications on the several OS (Android, IOS and WM10) available in all partner languages and a book of good practices published by an important international publisher (Wolters Kluwer) in English language, which PDF can be downloaded from the platform. In this context the long term benefits are evident: the students (future teachers) from the HEI, the associations that work with SE, the educational HEI, the general schools, the parents,…, will have free access to all of these materials.