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Project
Title:
Computer Education for All
ProjectID:
90396-CP-1-2001-1-IT-MINERVA-M
Description:
Computer Education For All is a project related courseware development.
The aim of the project is to identify all the obstacles at level of GUI interface for people with physical disability accessing to courseware related materials. The project moves from a review of the most diffused disabilities affecting upper limb functionality and a survey of the courseware material with accessibility issues already produced in EU and outside (USA and Canada).
The aim of the project consist in the development of guidelines for assuring a larger accessibility characteristic to the computer applications in education.
This work will be diffused among the teachers, the course designers as well as toward policy makers in the field of vocational and continuous education and ODL application. The guidelines document (intended as an "open" document) will be provided with a courseware example comprising a list of typical items and GUI implementations. This work will validated in the consortium by means of "on field" application with people affected by different type of disability (with special regards to upper limb movement impairments). Evaluation work will be included in design cycle of this prototype courseware application.
The aim of the project is to identify all the obstacles at level of GUI interface for people with physical disability accessing to courseware related materials. The project moves from a review of the most diffused disabilities affecting upper limb functionality and a survey of the courseware material with accessibility issues already produced in EU and outside (USA and Canada).
The aim of the project consist in the development of guidelines for assuring a larger accessibility characteristic to the computer applications in education.
This work will be diffused among the teachers, the course designers as well as toward policy makers in the field of vocational and continuous education and ODL application. The guidelines document (intended as an "open" document) will be provided with a courseware example comprising a list of typical items and GUI implementations. This work will validated in the consortium by means of "on field" application with people affected by different type of disability (with special regards to upper limb movement impairments). Evaluation work will be included in design cycle of this prototype courseware application.
Description in original language:
II progetto è stato sviluppato nel contesto della applicazione del cosiddetto "design for all" (letteralmente "progettazione per tutti").
Lo scopo di questa metodologia è considerare, nello sviluppo di un prodotto o di un servizio, le necessità di accesso di tutti i possibili utenti. Si considerano le limitazioni delle persone disabili e delle persone anziane e le relative strategie per superarle. L'applicazione di tali concetti porta ad una visione più complessa della progettazione, con altri punti di partenza e vincoli che dovrebbero essere considerati nella realizzazione dell'obiettivo. Dalla consapevolezza della complessità di questo processo deriva la necessità di elaborare e fornire una serie di linee guida di riferimento riguardanti: l'accesso fisico agli edifici, l'accessibilità dei terminali pubblici, ecc....
L'accesso per tutti alla tecnologia dell'informazione ed alla conoscenza è la sfida reale imposta dal nuovo concetto di "società della conoscenza".
Tutti i tipi di accessibilità alle informazioni sono coinvolti in questo processo: l'accesso al materiale educativo, alle informazioni pubbliche, ai servizi privati ed alle applicazioni di governo elettronico (e-government).
GLI OBIETTIVI DEL PROGETTO
Il progetto è correlato allo sviluppo dei "courseware". L'attività si riferisce alla ricerca per l'elaborazione di materiale di supporto allo sviluppo di PAD (Formazione A Distanza), considerando le esigenze degli utenti disabili. Il progetto è fecalizzato sulle inabilità degli arti superiori, come: tremore (sclerosi multipla o Parkinson), limitazioni del movimento, tetraplegia, emiplegia, mancanza di coordinazione motorio-visiva...
Lo scopo finale del progetto è proporre delle linee guida di riferimento, per aiutare tutti coloro che sono coinvolti nella progettazione del courseware per la preparazione di una presentazione accessibile dei contenuti. Alla conclusione del progetto sarà sviluppato un esempio di applicazione delle linee guida.
Linee Guida per il Courseware
Sono costituite da un documento "aperto" che fornisce un aggiornamento continuo degli argomenti e delle raccomandazioni elencate, così come delle tecniche per soddisfare le esigenze degli utenti. Le linee guida si riferiscono alla presentazione del materiale (ed alla relativa interfaccia grafica) indipendentemente dalla piattaforma software o dalle specifiche della stazione di lavoro.
Nelle linee guida è incluso un esempio di courseware che contiene una lista di oggetti tipici nelle implementazioni di GUI (Graphical User Interface). Il materiale è stato valutato dal consorzio dei partners del progetto per mezzo di una "applicazione sul campo" con persone affette dai differenti tipi di disabilità (con particolare attenzione ai problemi motori degli arti superiori). La fase di valutazione fa parte della progettazione del prototipo del corso.
Attività di Disseminazione
I prodotti del progetto sono a disposizione di tutti i soggetti interessati allo sviluppo di corsi accessibili:
•enti pubblici o privati incaricati della
produzione di corsi di apprendimento;
•insegnanti che progettano corsi basati su
computer;
•organizzazioni pubbliche o private coinvolte
nell'applicazione dei programmi educativi (via
FAD);
•legislatori regionali e nazionali coinvolti nella
definizione dei metodi migliori di utilizzo degli
strumenti educativi computerizzati
Subject:
Special education
Science, technology and society
Science, technology and society
Coverage:
HUN; ITA; DEU; ESP
Partner:
DEU, HUN, ITA, ESP
audience:
public and private bodies, teachers, physically disabled people
Life Cycle Status:
Completed
Start Date:
10/01/2001
End Date:
10/01/2003
Typology:
SOCRATES
Coordinator
Coordinator contact detail
The details of a organization/person in charge of the coordination of the project (project promoter)
Organization:
Consorzio TUCEP
Firstname:
Mariapia
Lastname:
Viola Magni
Address:
Via dei Priori, n. 80
email:
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phone:
0039 075 5733102
fax:
0039 075 573 8252
url:
Partners
PARTNER CONTACT DETAILS
organization:
Pragma Engineering S.r.l.
firstname:
Riccardo
lastname:
Magni
address:
via della Pallotta - Perugia
email:
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phone:
0039 075 30418
fax:
0039 075 33202
url:
organization:
FAIP (Federazione Associazioni Italiane Paraplegici)
firstname:
Raffaele
lastname:
Goretti
address:
Via Mario Angeloni 61 – I 06124 Perugia - IT
email:
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phone:
0039 075 5042205
fax:
0039 075 5044688
url:
organization:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
firstname:
Winrich
lastname:
Breipohl
address:
Sigmund Freud-Str. 25, Haus 23, D 53105 Bonn, DE
email:
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phone:
00(49) 228 - 287 5627
fax:
00 (49) 228 - 287 5668
url:
organization:
Szeged Tudomanyegyetem
firstname:
Magdolna
lastname:
Szente
address:
Kozepfasor 52, H 6726, HU
email:
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phone:
00(36) 62 544 152
fax:
00(36) 62-544-291
url:
organization:
Federacion Espanola para la Lucha contra la Esclerosis Multiple
firstname:
Pedro
lastname:
Carrascal
address:
Ponzano 53 1° E, E 28003 Madrid, ES
email:
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phone:
0034 91 - 4410159
fax:
00(34) 91 - 4514079
Targets
Direct Targets:
Teachers
Indirect Targets:
People with Disabilities
Framework
Environmental Factors:
Product and Technology
Others:
Policies
Tangible Products
FIRST MATERIAL TITLE:
Review of impairments related to physical disabilities
Abstract:
analysis and categorisation of impairments as they are related to different physical disabilities; it will comprise a list of disabilities with a description of the resulting impairments with respect to the abilities to perform and control movements at the level of upper limb
Date:
02/01/2006
Availabilty:
yes
IPR limitation:
yes
Type:
Text
Media:
Book
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
en
Web link:
SECOND MATERIAL TITLE:
Survey of multimedia educational projects for physically disabled people
Abstract:
analysis of state of the art in the field of multimedia educational packets directed to physically disabled people: this analysis will contribute to gather examples of thematic project in the field of methodology and technical issues related to accessible educational material for people with disabilities
Web link:
Download:
THIRD MATERIAL TITLE:
Guidelines to multimedia courseware for physically disabled people
Abstract:
guidelines development for the preparation of multimedia material accessible to physically disabled people: this development phase will include the comparative research about accessible issues related to the production of educational material as they are related to the utilisation: technological aids for disabled people commonly available on the market as well as accessibility pack provided with the OS (operating system) of the computer (i.e.: accessibility pack for Windows...); the output of this phase represents the main project product, a public document reporting guidelines description as they are related to software and hardware specific aids
Editor:
Cornicchia Grafice
Availability:
yes
Type:
Text
Media:
Book
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Language:
en
Web link:
Download:
FOURTH MATERIAL TITLE:
Accessible Course Prototype
Abstract:
best practice course example: this product will summarise the implementation of guidelines for the accessibility, explaining as they modify design phase of the educational material; the result will be a small product associated with the guidelines edition; at the end of evaluation phase, it will comprise a document summarising the evaluation of this product
Availability:
yes
Media:
CD
Accessible & Usable for End Users:
yes
Intangible Products
FIRST INITIATIVE TITLE:
The new European programs in the field of instruction: accessibility of educatio
Abstract:
The new European programs in the field of instruction: accessibility of education and new technologies.
The European Union has placed Instruction and Formation at the centre of its development policies, indicating as key objectives the quality of the education, the transparency of program¬mes and the co-operation among the Institutions. In this globalisation process Europe hopefully represents an attractive centre for the Third Countries: the development of projects that favour the participation of students coming from these countries are well in progress (Erasmus Mundus).
The project Minerva-Socrates "Computer Education for All" is referred to the development of courseware accessible to people affected by disabilities at upper limbs. It is an experimental project which can be considered a contribution to the realisation of an open distance learning, barriers free.
The European Union has placed Instruction and Formation at the centre of its development policies, indicating as key objectives the quality of the education, the transparency of program¬mes and the co-operation among the Institutions. In this globalisation process Europe hopefully represents an attractive centre for the Third Countries: the development of projects that favour the participation of students coming from these countries are well in progress (Erasmus Mundus).
The project Minerva-Socrates "Computer Education for All" is referred to the development of courseware accessible to people affected by disabilities at upper limbs. It is an experimental project which can be considered a contribution to the realisation of an open distance learning, barriers free.
Date:
03/22/2004
Coverage:
ITA
Languages:
en
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