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The Polytechnic Institute of Leiria launched in March 2014 its own MOOCs platform. This initiative, faced as a challenge for innovation and development, aimed to provide additional training for students and staff and to promote new means of knowledge transfer into society. UP2U is an open platform, allowing any people to either register in the plat...
In the context of the eLearning platform (Moodle 2.7) accessibility evaluation of the IPLeiria, where a web conferencing system (BigBlueButton) was integrated, we held a test session, with screen readers, on this platform to verify the accessibility of the interface and the features available to the audience and to the presenter. These accessibilit...
Neste trabalho apresenta-se, de forma esquemática, uma proposta de modelo de eLearning inclusivo e acessível centrado no utilizador (estudante e professor), que permite dar uma visão geral de alguns desafios que se colocam às instituições que pretendem ter esta abordagem. Tendo como prossuposto que todos os utilizadores são diferentes, i.e. apresen...
Este trabalho apresenta o percurso do ensino a distância no IPLeiria, com destaque para a acessibilidade que, desde o 1º curso, se vem refletindo nas plataformas, modelo pedagógico, conteúdos, formação continua e investigação. Procurámos, desde o início, cumprir as WCAG contempladas na RCM nº 155/2007, na Lei nº 36/2011 e RCM nº 91/2012.
This extended abstract is a contribution to the Accessible E-Learning Online Symposium of 16 December 2013. The contents of this paper was not developed by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and does not necessarily represent the consensus view of its membership.
Summary It is not always easy to integrate Deaf students in the mainstream educational system for reasons that pertain mainly to communication. Not many teachers are aware of the special needs of Deaf students and many see sign language interpreters as unwelcome intruders in their classroom. This in mind, the Distance Learning Unit at the Polytechn...
