OLEI

The development of the professional skills of educational specialists is a central factor in the successful implementation of inclusion in schools. In addition to the traditional face-to-face format, e-learning and the combination of face-to-face and online-based courses offer important opportunities for professionalization. The e-learning management system Online Learning Inclusive (OLEI) aims to provide a comprehensive, flexible range of further education and training courses for educational specialists in inclusion. OLEI comprises a total of 7 learning modules that cover all relevant aspects of the entire range of qualifications, including the upcoming updates of the measure "Further training for schools on the way to inclusion" with a focus on "behavioral and learning problems". The modules are structured according to a modular principle:

• M1: Effective classroom management
• M2: Cooperation structures and processes
• M3: Promotion of emotional-social skills/prevention and intervention in emotional and behavioral disorders I (basics & universal level)
• M4: Prevention and intervention for learning disorders/individual learning support in inclusive contexts I (basics)
• M5: Inclusive lesson planning - didactics and methodology in challenging teaching-learning situations
• M6: Promotion of emotional-social skills/prevention and intervention in emotional and behavioral disorders II (in-depth & selective level)
• M7: Prevention and intervention for learning disorders/individual learning support in inclusive contexts II (in-depth)

OLEI is designed that educational professionals can acquire the content through self-study. The platform has a broad didactic and methodological basis: Concrete video examples from educational practice, digital tools for planning your own lessons, animations to illustrate complex issues and opportunities to exchange ideas with colleagues and other educational disciplines are designed to guarantee a high level of practical relevance for users.

To this end, OLEI is based on the UTAUT-2 technology acceptance model (Venkatesh et al., 2012), which identifies the factors usefulness, effort, social influence, technical and organizational conditions and enjoyment as predictors of user behaviour. The accompanying scientific study includes the context, concept, process and product evaluation of the e-learning offer. OLEI is being developed by the Chair of Educational Support and Social-Emotional Development (Prof. Dr. Thomas Hennemann) at the University of Cologne and the Heilpädagogische Akademie für Erziehungshilfe und Lernförderung e. V. Köln (HPA) and is funded by the Ministry of Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Project-related publications

Leidig, T., Nitz, J., Vösgen, M., Börger, J. & Hennemann, T. (2023). E-Learning für Inklusion – Konzeption einer digitalen Lernumgebung für die schulische Praxis. In D. Ferencik-Lehmkuhl, I. Huynh, C. Laubmeister, C. Lee, C. Melzer, I. Schwank, H. Weck & K. Ziemen (Hrsg.). Inklusion digital! Chancen und Herausforderungen inklusiver Bildung im Kontext von Digitalisierung (S. 127–139). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. https://doi.org/10.35468/5990