• DocumentCode
    3249553
  • Title

    An enhanced e-learning environment for Deaf/HOH pupils

  • Author

    Nasr, Mona M.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Comput. & Inf., Helwan Univ., Helwan, Egypt
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    2-4 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    724
  • Lastpage
    727
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCTD.2010.5646421
  • Filename
    5646421