NEWS
03_2007
E-learning Workshop in Graz, for the AHVITED project
The project led by the Royal National College for the Blind (UK), where Multimedia Campus is responsible for the production of graphic contents, holds an international meeting in Austria on March 6th and 7th.
This project’s objective is to provide an innovative method of delivering visual graphics to people who are visually impaired by the way of touch and sound using tactile diagrams with integrated sound files.
The main target group for this project is learners who are blind or visually impaired studying on distance learning programmes, with the secondary benefit to education and training providers.
The main activities will be the development of systems currently used in the classroom for wider application in distance learning courses and the creation of 3 sets of pilot course materials to evaluate the proposed methodology. Outcomes will be an operating system, pilot course materials and a training manual.
The team have complementary programming, teaching and special needs education skills. In addition to the Royal National College, other members of the team are:
The project’s website
03_2007
E-learning Workshop in Graz, for the AHVITED project
The project led by the Royal National College for the Blind (UK), where Multimedia Campus is responsible for the production of graphic contents, holds an international meeting in Austria on March 6th and 7th.
This project’s objective is to provide an innovative method of delivering visual graphics to people who are visually impaired by the way of touch and sound using tactile diagrams with integrated sound files.
The main target group for this project is learners who are blind or visually impaired studying on distance learning programmes, with the secondary benefit to education and training providers.
The main activities will be the development of systems currently used in the classroom for wider application in distance learning courses and the creation of 3 sets of pilot course materials to evaluate the proposed methodology. Outcomes will be an operating system, pilot course materials and a training manual.
The team have complementary programming, teaching and special needs education skills. In addition to the Royal National College, other members of the team are:
- Multimedia Campus (Italy), in charge of visual graphics
- Dublin City University (Ireland), responsible of technical issues
- Institute of the Blind and Partially Sighted (Denmark), in charge of research about users’ needs
- Romanian Society for Life Long Learning (Romania), as quality assurance leader
- Vocational Promotion Institute, Styria (Austria), responsible for didactic contents
The project’s website
