To become more inclusive and to adapt teaching and learning structures and approaches correspondingly, members of educational institutions need new competences and skills, because organisational development towards higher levels of inclusiveness requires them to drive this change. Hence, two key target groups within these organisations are essential: management staff / head teachers (mainly in the role of deciders and enablers of the change), and teachers / trainers / educational professionals (mainly in the role of those who implement inclusive settings in their teaching and for their learners).Management staff / head teachers need at first to be convinced on the necessity to become more inclusive, but then require suitable and applicable approaches for the organisational transformation with regard to using information and communication technology (ICT) in general. Teachers / trainers / educational professionals require skills to exploit the potentials of ICT e.g. to increase the accessibility of teaching materials, to facilitate communication in the classroom, to allow for self-expression and participation in discussions, etc. This Special Thematic Session (STS) will look at different approaches to support the organisational change in educational organisations and encourages submissions of papers that do not only look at technical issues, but on issues of the organisational embedding of technologies to enhance their inclusive capabilities. Submissions may focus e.g. on the following issues:

• ICT as a driver of organisational change
• Good practice examples of raising the level of inclusiveness by introducing and using ICT in educational settings
• Successful implementation strategies for technologies in educational contexts
• New and innovative teaching and learning approaches benefiting from technology use
• Peer-involvement of people with special educational needs in the development and delivery of educational materials
• New possibilities of participation in educational processes through ICT
• ICT examples and practice that level out different types of disadvantages within the classroom
• Use of ICT in schools – the business case
• Teacher competences in the context of ICT-enhanced / -supported education
• etc.

Chair

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  Harald Weber, ITA, University of Technology Kaiserslautern