DART presentation: BEECON 2006: London: September 2006

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DART presentation BEECON 2006 London September
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• Enhancing the Learning Experience for Disabled
  Students in the Built Environment Disciplines
• Alan Maddocks
• Dr Adam Crawford
• Prof John Dickens
• Loughborough University

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• Alan Maddocks
• DART Project Manager
• Engineering CETL,
• Loughborough University

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• DART (Disabilities Academic Resource Tool)
  Project 2003-2005 Aims / Intended Outcomes
• Capture disseminate the experiences of disabled
  students within Built Environment / Engineering
  disciplines
• To enhance
• Provision offered to disabled students by
  academic staff within these disciplines
• Accessibility of the curriculum
• Educational experiences of disabled student

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• DART Project Primary Outputs
• 25 Student Case Studies
• Range of disabilities
• Across the HE spectrum
• Learning Teaching experience
• http//dart.lboro.ac.uk/case.html
• Web-based Auditing Diagnostic Tool
• Built Environment / Engineering Academics
• Searchable data-base
• Bespoke advice and guidance
• http//dart.lboro.ac.uk/tool

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• DART Auditing Diagnostic Tool
• Designed for use by academics seeking SENDA
  compliance
• General Specific advice
• Case Studies / Existing Resources
• Links to websites of interest
• Information on other HEFCE funded
  disability-related projects

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• DART Auditing Diagnostic Tool Searchable
  data-base / DART Matrix
• Search options
• Barriers (e.g. delivery methods)
• Context (e.g. lectures, laboratory work)
• Disability (e.g. visually-impaired)
• Typically 10 criteria per search option

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DART presentation BEECON 2006 London September
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• The DART Tool can be used in different contexts
• Addressing the needs of students with specific
  disabilities or conditions
• Developing more accessible teaching strategies
  and resources
• Producing accessible programmes and module
  specifications
• Conducting module reviews
• Reviewing institutional disability provision

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• DART Tool comments from academics
• A very useful tool indeed. Quite illuminating
  and informative as it provides clear guidance
  about the most appropriate course of action (GS,
  UCE)
• It was relatively easy to source relevant
  information on each area of disability (RJ, UCE)
• Very useful (SM, NTU)
• I have DART on my favourites list (RM,
  Loughborough)

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• DART Tool comments from disabled students
• I feel very comfortable that all academics
  should have access to this tool (SA, SHU)
• The structure and presentation of the
  information was excellent (JP, Bolton)
• I think that the DART Tool is a useful starting
  point for staff to find out about disabilities
  and to develop an understanding of disabled
  students (CW, Loughborough)

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• DART Tool comments from disability specialists
• This is exactly the kind of tool that I think
  would benefit our academic staff. They need
  something that they can refer to time and time
  again without it getting misplaced or lost, and
  that offers a whole kaleidoscope of advice and
  guidance (KJ, Bolton)
• I would feel justified in recommending academic
  staff to use the DART Tool (HH, NTU)

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• DART Project
• http//dart.lboro.ac.uk/
• http//dart.lboro.ac.uk/tool
• A.P.Maddocks_at_lboro.ac.uk
• Embedding success Enhancing the learning
  experience for disabled students (The Higher
  Education Academy, 2006)