Tag: Accessibility

  • How Active Learning at Groningen is Revolutionizing Education

    Education constantly evolves, fueled by technological advancements and pedagogical insights. At the University of Groningen (RUG), Active Learning plays a key role in reshaping how students engage with knowledge. Why Active Learning? Traditional teaching often centers on the lecturer as the main source of knowledge, leaving students to listen passively. However, in today’s fast-paced world,…

  • Innovative Teaching: A Classroom Visit with Eric Mazur

    During the week of September 29 to October 6, Vanesa Valero and Alodía López traveled to Boston to visit Eric Mazur at Harvard University. The purpose of this visit was to share information about the project and its current results, as well as to establish new connections. During the meeting with Eric, we had the…

  • Role-Playing Games: A Powerful Tool for Transformative Education

    The introduction of role-playing games (RPGs) in higher education contributes to enrich the strategies for approaching the contents, inviting students to adopt an active position and apply the concepts through practical cases in which interaction plays an important role. By having to “put themselves in someone else’s shoes” and act accordingly, students increase their capacity…

  • 5th International Congress on Leadership and Improvement in Education

    The Innovalab project was presented at the 5th International Congress on Leadership and Improvement in Education – School, Democracy and Change, held in Porto (Portugal) during during May 27, 28 and 29 (https://www.fpce.up.pt/cilme2024/). This international forum was an opportunity to share the project and discuss opportunities to improve teacher training at the university. The aim…

  • Design for All and Universal Design: two ways to Accessibility.

    A little bit of history* Design for All and Universal design started to consider accessibility from the design and architectural point of view giving an important contribution to the reflection on the meaning of accessibility. These two currents developed almost at the same time in Europe and the USA. The Design for All (DfA) developed…