Design of a Virtual Learning Environment for Students with Special Needs

Abstract

The European Social Fund-supported Portland Partnership project developed a computer-based virtual learning environment (VLE) to benefit students with cognitive and physical disabilities. This system provided students with access to a suite of software programs to teach them basic/essential skills needed for everyday life and to use information and communications technology (ICT

Contribution of ICT to Improve Learning of People with Special Educational Needs: A Comparative Perspective between Public School and Private School

“…For an PLE to be adapted, according to Maguire, Elton, Osman and Nicolle [8] it is necessary to ensure accessibility, usability, individualization, multimedia interfaces, assistive technologies and curriculum compliance. Although accessibility, as noted by these authors [8], is important in a system accessed by individuals with different characteristics, it can be difficult to achieve.…”

“…For an PLE to be adapted, according to Maguire, Elton, Osman and Nicolle [8] it is necessary to ensure accessibility, usability, individualization, multimedia interfaces, assistive technologies and curriculum compliance. Although accessibility, as noted by these authors [8], is important in a system accessed by individuals with different characteristics, it can be difficult to achieve. According to Dix, Finlay, Abowd, and Beale [8], for a system to present usability it must be simple and intuitive, consistent with conventions and norms, flexible and efficient, clear to act and react and help the user to avoid errors and make it possible to recover from errors.…”

Scanning-Based Interaction Techniques for Motor Impaired Users

“…Another virtual learning environment for students with special needs, including physically disabled students accessing through switches the provided interface is described in Maguire et al (2006). The virtual learning environment included a number of learning programs, aiming to teach cause and effect, number, matching and sorting skills, life skills, as well as slideshow authoring and presentation.…”

User interface in virtual learning environment

“…The university provides managerial tools for manager such as course presenting, selecting supervisor, term time table, financial management. The professor also has tools that may present the course, take an exam and enter marks for students [1]. Today, with modern information and communicative technologies development, business method and daily activities, relating to others, access to information and generally all the aspects of human life become largely evolutionally changed and gaining knowledge are not exceptional among. Although mankind has used technology and tools for educational and learning services, but maybe education and learning have been never adapted to considerable changes due to using modern information and communicative technologies such as Internet, Compact Disk and multimedia systems.…”