Title :
An enhanced e-learning environment for Deaf/HOH pupils
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. & Inf., Helwan Univ., Helwan, Egypt
Abstract :
e-Learning is considered to be untraditional entrance to this century of technology, where disabled pupils mustn´t be apart from taking the benefits of using this technology. This new technology where disabled pupils touch in their daily life by direct and indirect way, being far from this technology leads to shortage in skills and knowledge that will badly affect their life. Pupils with disabilities need to transfer skills and learn a specific lectures must not stay with bound hands waiting for the mentors for preparing the appropriate time and place to attend the lectures they need, but they can crossover all time and place obstacles by e-Learning. Disabilities or learning difficulties pupils´ needs are rarely taken in consideration in developing e-learning systems. Disabled pupils often dispose of only limited reading competency, they have serious problems in dealing with learning systems. The paper presents eLearning paradigm for Deaf/HOH pupils was adopted to work Bilingual (Spoken/Sign Language). The proposed eLearning paradigm provides many learning facilities for its users according to their roles in the paradigm, supports implicit scripted collaborative task. The proposed paradigm also shows an integration of the interactive &social tools together with translation to sign language increase the usability and interactivity within virtual learning environment for disabled users.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; handicapped aids; natural language processing; HOH pupils; deaf pupils; disabled pupils; e-learning environment; interactive tools; sign language; social tools; spoken language; virtual learning environment; Testing; Videos; World Wide Web; Collaborative Learning; Disabilities; Sign Language; Virtual Class Room; e-Learning;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Technology and Development (ICCTD), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8844-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8845-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCTD.2010.5646421