Online Training in Accessibility and Design for All: A Tool to Train Post-COVID Inclusive Graduates

Ricardo Moreno-Rodriguez, Miriam Diaz-Vega, Jose Luis Lopez-Bastias and Rosa Espada-Chavarria
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Ricardo Moreno-Rodriguez: Education Sciences Department, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28032 Madrid, Spain
Miriam Diaz-Vega: Education Sciences Department, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28032 Madrid, Spain
Jose Luis Lopez-Bastias: Education Sciences Department, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28032 Madrid, Spain
Rosa Espada-Chavarria: Education Sciences Department, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28032 Madrid, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 23, 1-13

Abstract: Agenda 2030 expresses, through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and in particular through No. 4, the need to ensure an inclusive and equitable education, which promotes learning opportunities for all. At the university level, all students are urged to acquire the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to promote sustainable development, so that they become graduates capable of facing the challenges of the future and the real demands of a society marked by heterogeneity, including the needs of people with some kind of disability. In this sense, the present work analyzed the impact of a transversal training program in Design for All on university degree students. For this purpose, a descriptive and comparative ex post facto study was developed in which the impact of an online training program was quantified by establishing comparative pre- and post-training. The results indicate that the approach, through the delivery of a training xplain eon Design for All, contributed to a change in the perceptions of students regarding disability, its role in the university and in the future workplace. Furthermore, it increased the knowledge of institutional action undertaken in terms of awareness and approach to human disability.

Keywords: sustainability; inclusion; higher education; disability; Design for All (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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