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DEIMS12 Keynote Lecture:

Title:

E-Simplicity versus e-Complexity : Some Remarks on the Perspectives of the Universal Design for Learning

Presenters:

Petr Peňáz, head of the Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Svatoslav Ondra, head of the Special ICT Section, Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Short biographies

Petr Peňáz

Having started his carrier as a researcher in linguistics, professionally interested in theory of communication (semantic equivalents in very different languages and language culture), Petr Peňáz has been teaching at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, since 1998. He founded and developped, starting since 1999, the Support Centre for Students with Special Needs (Teiresias Centre), which became one of the biggest university centres for people with disabilities in Europe. Approximately 100 blind and partially-sighted and more than 100 deaf/Deaf or hard-of-hearing students, which is more than a half of the sensorially disabled university students of the Czech Republic, are now included in the study programmes of Masaryk University, using the services of the Centre.

Svatoslav Ondra

Having started his professional carrier as lecturer and consultant in assistive technologies and as co-author of the Czech web accessibility guidelines at Czech Blind United association in Brno, Svatoslav Ondra joined the Support Centre for Students with Special Needs (Teiresias Centre) at Masaryk University in 2001. He has been appointed as head of the Special ICT Section, responsible for hardware and software adjustments in study curricula of students with disabilities, running courses in computer science and informatics for the blind and providing technological support for the Czech University Library for the Blind.

Summary:

Mathematics was developed to approach the complexity of nature through the simplicity of numbers –  thus it can be considered as the first digitization process in history. Nevertheless, to reach its goal, mathematics itself develops more and more complex structures which are, in terms of their readability and accessibility, as complicated as nature itself, using two or even more dimensions in writing and encoding formulae. The same development can be observed in informatics and the media used for presenting scientific formulae. The lecture analyzes and compares existing technologies and methods of adjustment applied in the accessibility of didactical and scientific documents. Based on their experience in equal opportunities within the European academic settings, the authors consider the question of whether that variety of approaches really helps to make the academic curricula accessible.

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