NDLI: The adaptability of an open source learning management system for deaf children in Jordan

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Khwaldeh, S. Shah, M.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Systems and Operations Department Lancashire Business School UCLAN Preston, UK (Khwaldeh, S.; Shah, M.)
Abstract	E-learning is a useful tool that has contributed in facilitating education for people around the globe. There is a need to make e-learning available to deaf people, deaf people facing difficulties in learning, for example, when a lecturer demonstrates on the black board, they usually face the wall, making lip-reading impossible. Moreover, unless they have a note-taker, they will not be able to write down the necessary information and watch the lecturer/interpreter/lip-speaker at the same time. Deaf children in Jordan are not far from this. They face even more problems because of the lack of educational infrastructure, resources and specialist provision. In this paper, with the aim of finding the feasibility of using current open source Learning Management Systems (LMS) we evaluated four open source LMS and recommended one of them as most adaptable for deaf children in Jordan. This recommendation came from testing the evaluated LMS against the developed key requirement. These developed key requirements are based on literature; the guidelines of California department of education, these guidelines contain suggestions to be used in classifying, assessing, planning, and providing appropriate educational services to all children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Additionally, we used some aspects from the LMS evaluation tool user guide issue 1.2. The evaluation of process involved examining factors and aspects related to LMS. During the evaluation of four open source LMS, we noticed the main factors that affect the adaptation such as language support, hardware/software specifications, RDBMS, LMS standards & specifications compliance, administrative tools, assessment tools, collaboration and communications tools, and customization of LMS. By the end of this evaluation, we found that the most suitable open source e-learning environment and LMS to be utilised to deaf children needs was "Moodle" LMS. Therefore Moodle LMS is adapted to the deaf children in Jordan.
Starting Page	34
Ending Page	39
File Size	563638
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424452637
DOI	10.1109/ICIME.2010.5477480
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-04-16
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Deafness E-learning Assessment Tools Collaborative software LMS Standards & Specifications Compliance Deaf Watches Least squares approximation Open source software Guidelines Administrative Tools Electronic learning LMS RDBMS Open Source LMS Collaboration and Communications Tools Auditory system Open source hardware Customization of LMS Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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