REMOTE LEARNING AND INCLUSIVITY: A LAB-BASED EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT FOR FUTURE SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHERS

The present effort is a remote-learning lab experiment carried out at the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, to guarantee the continuation of the teaching program in the Major Course for future special needs teachers and give all students the opportunity to follow lessons regularly in spite of the Covid-19 crisis. It provides an example of laboratory- experience-based activity in e-learning mode addressing 111 students (future special needs teachers), with a view to strengthening lab-based remote-learning and foster cooperative learning on line. The aim here is to trigger methodological considerations on how to deal with the major changes that universities have made in order to adequately respond to a crisis that suddenly hurdled traditional teaching and learning activities.