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international
Theme page of the World Health Organisation on assistive technologies with a lot of news and information on projects, events, pubications and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

international
GDI Hub is a research and practice centre for disability innovation. It focusses on the following themes: * Assistive & Accessible Technology * Inclusive Design * Culture and Participation * Climate & Crisis Resilience * Inclusive Educational Technology The website offers a wide range of news, publications, events, projects and more. According to GDI Hub, it works [...]

international
"The Global Report on Assistive Technology presents a comprehensive dataset and analysis of current assistive technology access, drawing the attention of governments and civil society to the need for, and benefit of, assistive technology, including its return on investment. The Global Report sets out ten recommendations for improving access to assistive technology, which in [...]

international; Germany; Austria; Switzerland; Canada; United States of America (USA)
"Contemporary digital media practices developed and employed by people with disabilities is an important and growing research field, which unfortunately has been neglected by German Media Studies. (...) The proposed scientific network will address these urgent topics and map the field by exploring innovative research approaches and methodologies and by establishing and [...]

international
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provides a list of tools that help evaluate Web accessibility. As there are different definitions of accessibility in different countries, you can filter country specific accessibility guidelines, among others. W3C was created in 1994 as a membership organisation that seeks to standardise techniques in the World Wide Web. [Abstract: [...]

international
"Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities (...) Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general." They were published by the World Wide Web [...]

international; United Kingdom
"Digital technologies have transformed daily life. Yet capacity for producing accessible digital tools and services has not kept pace with demand, exacerbating digital exclusion for disabled people and older people.

United Kingdom
The Imperial College London's project is first of all meant to help making the College's own websites more accessible according to a UK regulation as of 2018 on accessibility within public sector bodies. Nonetheless, the tips and guides compiled by the College can also help others in making their websites more accessible and inclusive. You will find links to the regulation [...]

international
The author of the blog compiles information on Web Accessibility laws and policies in more than 20 countries worldwide. For each country you will find information on the respective discrimination law/policy (because of disability) and on laws/policies concerning communication etc. The name of the law is mentioned and the author gives a short comment. Unfortunately, there are [...]

international
The EU project "Digital Accessibility" provides six different quizzes that deal with accessible digital platforms and tools. The quizzes address different stakeholders that create, develop, design, implement or evaluate digital content. One more quiz addresses interested people in general and tests basic knowledge about digital accessibility. [Abstract: Editors of [...]

Europe
"The project aims to develop specialized digital accessibility training and accessible e-learning platform to improve the knowledge, skills, and competencies of diverse groups of key stakeholders. The training follows web accessibility standards and enables website developers, designers, managers, and others to respond to the needs of visual, auditory, physical, or cognitive [...]

France; Francophone Countries; international
The research chair "Disability, Education and Digital Technologyl" is a project by the "research group on Disability, Accessibility, Educational and School Practices" (Grhapes). Grhapes, for its part, is the research unit of the French "National Institute for Training and Research for the Education of Young People with Disabilities and for Appropriate Teaching"(INSHEA). The [...]

international
Quality Matters (QM) is an international network of more thn 1500 organisations in more than 25 countries worldwide. It deals with questions of quality control and management of digital educational resources. We link to a White Paper Series first published by QM in 2020 on digital accessibility and inclusion. The series shares the results of a 2019 survey conducted aming QM [...]

France; Francophone Countries; international
The "Observatory for Adapted Digital Resources" (Orna) was created in November 2007 by the Digital Education Department of the French Ministry of National Education. The "National Institute for Training and Research for the Education of Young People with Disabilities and for Appropriate Teaching" (INSHEA) is in charge of Orna. Orna's task is to identify, analyse and evaluate [...]

Israel
The School of Education at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan has a focus on cognitive science research. Furthermore, it runs TV Studies in order to improve the education of teachers in the field of multimedia. The website also provides information on publications, theses and dissertations, staff, research, study programmes and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Austria
The Austrian website for teachers provides information on copyright issues when using media in schools (esp. pictures). [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Brazil
The website of the Brazilian Association for Distance Learning provides very ample information and resources on distance learning in Brazil. You will find a course serach, a search for course providers, a search for professionals in this area, fulltext documents, podcasts, legislative documents, periodically published evaluations and statistics on distance learning in Brazil, [...]

international; United States of America (USA)
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) was founded in 2002. It conducts research in the field of OER and educational information and communication technologies, advises educational leaders and also produces OER. The website provides a lot of information on projects worldwide, for different educational areas and audiences. ISKME received [...]

Europe
LRE offers learning resources for schools from different European countries and 53 institutions. You will find audio, video, pictures, texts, glossaries, courses, presentations, exercises and much more. The search can be specified by language, subject, provider and later filtered by max./min. age and resource type. You can also search via tagcloud. Please note that for some [...]

Ireland
SCoTENS takes place sinde 2003 and can be seen not only as a conference, but also as a net work doing a lot of research on teacher education and pedagogy. A focus is on special education, citizenship education and Teaching and Learning with Digital Video. Further research topics are: Diversity; Pedagogy of Science, History and Geography; Technology and Maths; Language [...]

Ireland; Europe
DCU Institute of Education has the following schools with their respective research topics: - Arts Education & Movement - Human Development - Inclusive & Special Education - Language, Literacy & Early Childhood Education - Policy & Practice - STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies Furthermore, the institute runs the following research centres:- [...]

Paraguay
The education radio Paraguay was started in 1998. It offers cultural and educative programs which communicate ethical, environmental and civic values and strive for the preservation of traditions. The radio has its listeners in Alto Paraná, Iguazú (Argentina) and a large part of Paraná (Brazil).

Uruguay
The education portal "Uruguay Educa" provides, in a broad and efficient form, an entity of pertinent, qualitative resources to the education community which correspond to the study plans of the Administración Nacional de Educación Pública (ANEP) by using the accessibility of the internet. Furthermore it serves as an access point to digital education services.

Switzerland
The Schweizerische Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SIKJM) - the Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media- is a merger of the Schweizerischen Bund für Jugendliteratur (SBJ) with the Schweizerischen Jugendbuch-Institut (SJI) that was founded in 2002, as part of the Johanna Spyri foundation. It receives support from the ministries of science, culture and education and [...]

China, People's Republic of
This list of links compiled by China Internet Information Center leads to full texts on the milestones of the development of open and distance education in China covering the following contents: function and tasks of China Central Radio and Television University (CCRTVU) in the educational process; the role of the World Bank to build an Online Center in Guizhou; various [...]

India
The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) is a constituent unit of the National Council of Educational Research and Training ( NCERT), an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. Established in 1984 with the merger of the Centre of Educational Technology and Department of Teaching Aids, its chief aim is to [...]

Israel
Amal 1 is a network of more than 128 educational institutions engaged in the advancement of comprehensive and technological education for youth and adults. Located throughout Israel, Amal 1´s schools can be found in Jewish, Druze, Bedouin and Arab communities. The establishment of Amalnet, a computerized communications network encompassing Amal schools, students, teachers, [...]

Colombia
The foundation which operates EDUTEKA aims at promoting the quality of basic and middle school education in Colombia through the use of information and communication technology. For this purpose the website provides a variety of resources, texts, curriculum materials, projects and standards about ICT and its use in education.