Paola Ingavélez

• Politecnica Salesiana University

El proyecto "Asistencia tecnológica a la accesibilidad en la Educación Superior Virtual (EduTech)" forma parte del programa Erasmus+ en su Acción clave 2: cooperación para la innovación y el intercambio de buenas prácticas. La acción tiene como objetico apoyar la modernización, accesibilidad e internacionalización de la educación superior en los pa...

The increasing number of people are living with disability in the World and their access to formal education is considered a challenge for the development of the online education and educational resources. This problem is considered one of the 17 sustainable development goals that are focused on inclusive and equitable quality education. Neverthele...

The original article has been published with incorrect author affiliation.

The review of state of the art on creating and managing learning resources and accessible Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is a topic that cannot only consider formal literature. The evidence and lack of a measurement consensus require the inclusion of contextual information, corroborating scientific results w...

The need for adaptive e-learning environments that respond to learning variability is now a fundamental requirement in education, as it helps to ensure that students learn and pass their courses within a set time frame. Although guidelines, techniques and methods have been established in recent years to contribute to the development of accessible a...

E-learning environments constitute an essential element in education, as they help students to ensure their pass their courses and graduate on time. Although guidelines, techniques, and methods have been presented in some literature in recent years to contribute to the development of accessible e-learning environments that promote digital inclusion...

This report presents a review of the accessibility models in Learning Resources and MOOCs with the aim of establishing common terms in the research of the EduTech project and other projects associated with virtual accessibility in member HEIs. This study is based on the search and analysis of articles and publications related to the subject followi...

Many deaf women face the lack of numerous resources related to their personal development. The unavailability of proper information on Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), in particular, causes problems of sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancy in adolescence, sexual violence, complications during pregnancy, etc. In response to this,...

En este trabajo se presenta una ontología para describir reglas que expresen la forma de evaluar requisitos de accesibilidad que debe cumplir el software, incluidas las páginas y aplicaciones web. Se ha tomado como referencia la futura recomendación del World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) denominada "Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format...

Nowadays the governments of several nations must address the challenge of providing a high-quality education for all persons from the perspective of an inclusive focus. In this line, in the e-learning area exist several standards and models aimed at establishing quality guidelines or structures to certify an optimal process of development, implemen...

According to the guidelines provided in the UNESCO program “Learning for All,” the stakeholders (governments, institutions, teachers, instructional designers and quality assurance/ qualification recognition bodies) are responsible on the development of contribution to guarantee the quality access learning for persons with disabilities or special ne...

El presente documento constituye un estudio de la accesibilidad de objetos de aprendizaje acorde a las normativas WCAG 2.0 y sus metadatos de accesibilidad para lo cual se emplea una muestra de 15 objetos de aprendizaje realizados por diferentes instituciones de educación superior del Ecuador. Se considera la importancia del empleo de metadatos de...

The latest estimates of the World Health Organization point that approximately 5% of world’s population presents disabling hearing loss (328 million adults and 32 million children). This situation becomes very complex in developing countries, where children with hearing loss and deafness rarely have access to schooling. On those grounds, in this pa...

The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that depression and anxiety disorders cost the global economy US$1 trillion each year. Likewise, the anxiety in children can trigger different kind of educational issues such as attention difficulties, frustration, and in general, the school failure. This disorder can appear too in children with different...

Los metadatos pueden facilitarnos la descripción de las características de accesibilidad que poseen los recursos digitales. En la publicación de contenidos web podemos utilizar la especificación propuesta por Schema.org basada en la de IMS Access for All 3.0. Estos metadatos se insertan directamente en el código HTML de la página web que contiene l...

El libro “Inclusión, discapacidad y educación: enfoque práctico desde las Tecnologías Emergentes” en el que se recogen las actas del XII Congreso Iberoamericano de Inclusión Educativa con tecnologías Emergentes CIIEE 2017, editado por Fernando Pesántez Avilés, Rafael Sánchez y Vladimir Robles Bykbaev, se publica bajo licencia Creative Commons Ecuad...

The latest estimates of UNICEF and United Nations present a complex picture related with children living under social vulnerability. Approximately, one-half of the estimated 57.4 million people displaced by war around the world are children, most of whom have been separated from their families. In the same line, many countries (especially the devel...

Accesibilidad web en las instituciones de salud de la ciudad de Cuenca. Análisis preliminar

De acuerdo a la última estimación de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (año 2012), 360 millones de personas sufren de distintos tipos de pérdida auditiva, lo cual representa el 5.3% de la población mundial. De este grupo, 328 millones son adultos, 32 millones son niños y aproximadamente un tercio de las personas mayores de 65 años. Por ello, es f...

According to the latest estimates of The United Nations, currently, between 180 and 220 millions of youth (15-24 years) around the world live with some form of disability and approximately 80% of them are from developing countries. Consequently, it is fundamental that youth with disabilities have the same opportunities to access to Higher Education...

Earlier intervention on People With Communication Disabilities (PWCD) is a fundamental strategy that has the aim of improving several skills related to speech, language, and swallowing. However, the existent tools are focused on the diagnosis or treatment of specific disorders, and commonly, they do not cover the different needs of people that prov...

La estimulación temprana permite ayudar a mejorar significativamente diversas habilidades relacionadas con los pilares del desarrollo cognitivo de niños y jóvenes que sufren o no alguna forma de discapacidad. Actualmente los estudios llevados a cabo por la Organización Mundial de la Salud y el Banco Mundial señalan que hace falta contar con más pro...

La estimulación temprana permite ayudar a mejorar significativamente diversas habilidades relacionadas con los pilares del desarrollo cognitivo de niños y jóvenes que sufren o no alguna forma de discapacidad. Actualmente los estudios llevados a cabo por la Organización Mundial de la Salud y el Banco Mundial señalan que hace falta contar con más pro...

This article presents a study of the advantages of using the needs transmitter designed for children with cerebral palsy. One of the problems these children face due to their living conditions have to do with everyday communication. This paralysis affects different areas of cerebral cortex, from gestation stage until the first five years of their l...

Nowadays the plagiarism constitutes a complex problem, due several factors as the incorrect use of new technologies to access and share the information, the different forms and areas where can be present plagiarism (texts, code, images, self-plagiarism, etc.) or the lack of respect to ideas and contributions of other persons. On those grounds, in t...

In this paper, we propose a complete approach to improve the web accessibility in Ecuador through the adoption of web accessibility policies and the creation of a web accessibility observatory. In the first stage, we made a preliminary study with disabled people to determine their main needs and goals. In the second stage, we have created a corpus...

El presente trabajo recoge los resultados del diagnóstico de discapacidades en la provincia del Azuay, con la finalidad de potencializar líneas de investigación futuras en el área de tecnologías inclusivas. Los datos evaluados responden a una clasificación de diversas discapacidades en base a planteamientos de la Misión Manuela Espejo, a su vez cat...

In this article, we propose a new approach to generate tools (assistive technology) for supporting education of children with disabilities in the first three levels of school. In the model proposed, we included the students of the last years of engineering careers, the experts of special education, the children with disabilities, and the teachers i...