Online Resources for Inclusive Teaching and Learning (under construction)
(Erasmus+ BELONG project outcome)
This online repository has been designed and developed as part of the Erasmus+ Better Education through Long-term Investment into Inclusiveness and Student and Staff Wellbeing (BELONG) project and aims to offer a collection of useful resources for those who wish to make their university courses and their teaching and learning more inclusive.
This collection of resources is specifically linked to Outcome 11 of the BELONG Project:
- Design an open access portal on inclusive learning and teaching
Background and context
During the first year of implementing the BELONG project, we have designed and offered a course for faculty members that aimed to help them become inclusive when preparing, facilitating and evaluating undergraduate and graduate courses and course sessions. While attending the course, participants also had an opportunity to increase their own awareness of mental health, wellbeing and sense of belonging.
The first part of the course took place at a summer school in Funchal, Madeira, between 6 and 12 July 2023. The second part of the course was offered modularly online in the academic year 2023-24.
In June 2024, 16 teachers from Comenius University Bratislava, Masaryk University, Nottingham Trent University, University of Madeira and Central European University graduated from the course.
Purpose and structure of the website
The website is designed to provide an online, free-access collection of resources for university teachers who wish to make their teaching more inclusive.
The website is organised into two main sections:
1. Thematic areas: this section comprises links to resources that have been categorized according to key themes in inclusive teaching and learning:
- From accommodations to inclusivity: diversity, universal design for learning
- Inclusive design
- Inclusive classroom practices
- Inclusive assessment
2. Resources from our inclusive course: this section contains
- all the training materials that were developed and used as part of the Course for faculty Members on Inclusive Teaching.
- examples of reflections on inclusive teaching and learning practices by participants of the Course for faculty Members on Inclusive Teaching.
Please note that these materials are outputs of the BELONG project: you are free to adapt the ideas contained therein, but please make sure that you acknowledge the source and authorship, in the following format: "Adapted from [insert author´s name and title of the session] Erasmus+ Cooperation partnership project BELONG 2021-1-SK01-KA220-HED-000023528"
Partner institutions:
Central European University, Vienna
Comenius University, Bratislava (lead institution)
Masaryk University, Brno
Nottingham Trent University
University of Madeira