The academic and linguistic needs of students with SEN: an e-learning course for university professors

This contribution outlines a self-paced asynchronous online course designed to familiarize university professors with the profiles of students with special educational needs (SEN). The course structure was informed by a questionnaire assessing the educational and linguistic needs of a sample of 70 students with SEN. The results of a preliminary delivery phase of the course are presented. An initial questionnaire was aimed at assessing teachers’ prior knowledge of inclusive teaching and a final questionnaire evaluated the user experience, the perception of acquired knowledge and the impact of the course on teaching.