Just sharing something that came through a World Health Organization (WHO) listserv on a MOOC for Digital Accessibility, http://gpii.eu/moocap/?p=650 Hope y'all are doing great! Original message.... Dear GATE Colleagues, Please see below from a colleagues in Dublin who is launching via an EU funded programme a MOOC in Digital Accessibility that may be of interest to you and your colleagues Best Regards John Dr. John Dinsmore Health Innovation Lead/Deputy Director Assistant Prof. Digital Integrated Care Centre for Practice & Healthcare Innovation School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin E-mail: dinsmorj@tcd.ie <mailto:dinsmorj@tcd.ie> Web: http://www.tcd.ie/cphi <http://www.tcd.ie/cphi> Twitter: https://twitter.com/johndinsmore <https://twitter.com/johndinsmore> ProACT Horizon 2020: http://www.proact2020.eu <http://www.proact2020.eu/> Follow on Twitter: TCPHI: https://twitter.com/CPHI_TCD <https://twitter.com/CPHI_TCD> ProACT: https://twitter.com/ProACT2020 <https://twitter.com/ProACT2020> > The first MOOCAP project Massive Open Online Course(MOOC) on Digital Accessibility is now open for sign-up at FutureLearn <https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/digital-accessibility> It will start on Oct 17th 2016. There will be a launch event for the MOOC on Wed 12th Oct from 6 to 8 pm in Room B16 DIT Kevin Street. To register for the launch event click here <https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/mooca-massive-open-online-courses-launch-event-tickets-28254127857> or email john.gilligan@dit.ie <mailto:john.gilligan@dit.ie> > More Information > > We in the School of Computing DIT have been engaged in the MOOCAP project over the last number of years. MOOCAP is a European Project whose name stands for “Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for Accessibility <http://gpii.eu/moocap/?glossary=accessibility> Partnership”. The goal of the project is to provide education on accessible design in ICT <http://gpii.eu/moocap/?glossary=ict>. The main result of the first project phase is now available as a MOOC on Digital Accessibility <http://gpii.eu/moocap/?glossary=accessibility>. The free course will run from Oct. 17 for 5 weeks on FutureLearn <http://www.futurelearn.com/>. > > More information and the link for signing up is available at the following link > https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/digital-accessibility <https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/digital-accessibility> > > By registering you will get access to all the course materials even if you are not able to complete the course. You will also be able to avail of all of their many other MOOCS from all over the world. This first course will help you to understand how those with sensory, physical and cognitive impairments may be disabled by barriers encountered when using digital technologies. The course will highlight how the use of accessible and inclusive design can help overcome many of these difficulties. > > MOOCAP has eight partners from across Europe: > · Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus <http://www.hioa.no/> > · HdM Stuttgart <http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/> > · University of Southampton <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/> > · Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis <http://www.univ-paris8.fr/en/> > · Dublin Institute of Technology <http://www.dit.ie/> > · Technische Universität Dresden <http://tu-dresden.de/en> > · Johannes Kepler Universität Linz <http://www.jku.at/content> > · Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου (University of the Aegean) <http://www.aegean.gr/> > > MOOCAP is funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2014-1-DE01-KA203-000679 (MOOC Accessibility Partnership), through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). > > Launch Event > > An event to launch the MOOC will be held on Wed 12th Oct 2016 from 6-8pm > Venue Dublin Institute of Technology Kevin Street Dublin Room B16 > > To register for this event please follow the link either > > https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/mooca-massive-open-online-courses-launch-event-tickets-28254127857 <https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/mooca-massive-open-online-courses-launch-event-tickets-28254127857> > > or email john.gilligan@dit.ie <mailto:john.gilligan@dit.ie> > > This email originated from DIT. 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