AILE

Adaptive and Inclusive Learning Environment

Overview and Objectives

Answering the challenge of inclusive education is a complex process. Teachers are confronted with a multitude of children’s profiles, as every pupil is unique. This diversity should be encouraged however in terms of learning skills, interests and motivation, the discrepancies from a pupil to another is a challenge in order to promote equal opportunities given by education. To be inclusive, the school should be multiple and collaborative, and the teachers should be committed to the success of a universal pedagogy. This supposes major changes in the structuring of schools and classrooms, regarding pedagogy and learning environment, aiming at ensuring that all children feel supported to be able to develop their full capacity. Towards this challenge, Universal Design for Learning, by understanding the way of people are learning, is giving flexibility and personalised learning to all. This concept has shown potential for inclusive education, especially because nowadays, at the level of regular classrooms, the teachers face pupils with learning issues at different level. Promoting flexible learning opportunities for inclusion in regular classroom, not considering the stigma of disabilities, is a great opportunity to enhance the capacity of primary schools to fulfil their mission of committing the children into the education process. In that context, the AILE project is designed to provide teachers with better educational opportunities for the integration of all pupils aged between 6 and 10 years old in order to meet each individual’s learning requirements to improve the educational development and give equal opportunities for all children.

The objectives will be reached using a breakthrough educational web-based solution to enable teachers creating their own regular learning contents and pedagogical activity, in an adapted and interactive way, thanks to a list of adaptations started through the ALSO Erasmus + project.

Through this project, AILE aims at answering to three objectives:

Give a concrete opportunity to the teachers to create, from a unique template, several adapted materials depending on the children’s needs;
Promote easy inclusive education to motivate teachers and;
Promote a collaborative pedagogy with and without schools for inclusion.

Activities/Outputs

To achieve its aims, AILE is implementing a breakthrough methodology and solution based on:

An in-depth assessment of the end-user’s requirements and needs compared to the opportunities given by UDL to implement concrete digital solutions towards inclusive education.
The creation of a large database of adaptations to the children needs, to offer new opportunity of alternative learning pathways.
The release of a breakthrough web-based solution, enabling all teachers to create, from their own material, adapted learning interactive contents, compared to their pupils’ profiles.
A complete assessment of the solution, and a replication plan towards institutions, schools, teachers, families and supportive organisations such as language therapists.

Impact

The main target group of participants that will benefit from the AILE implementation are children aged 6 to 10 years old will be positively impacted from the project outcomes during the testing phase and after the project completion. All children will be targeted by the project, independently from their background in terms of learning rates and disabilities.

The project will have a testing phase and teachers will actively participate in preparation and implementation of this phase. Thus, they will acquire new skills or improve current skills in methodologies behind inclusive education that requires a common understanding of big challenges. Thanks to the implementation of AILE, innovative pedagogies at school including inclusion policies will be eased. This will impact positively the structuring of the learning environment to become more oriented towards personalised approach.

The AILE project will also have a global impact on complementary organisations working in the field of innovative approaches for adaptive learning that can be improved and use in their daily activities and work for and with children with learning disabilities. The participants in the projects are specialists in different fields and will have the opportunity of joining multidisciplinary discussions and present their views from the different angles of the situation which the project will be tackling.

Partners

Project AILE is carried out by ICEP Europe in conjunction with Haikara, Ecole2demain, Orthocentre: Centre DYS liégeois and Centre d’Etude et de Formation pour l’Education Spécialisée.