Proposal for Development of Teaching Methodology and Accessibility Tool for Professional Qualification of Visual and Mobility Impaired People

According to 2000 Cense, there are approximately 24.5 million people in Brazil who have some kind of deficiency, where the visually and mobility impaired are the majority. The government actions are mainly taken toward to basic education, so not many advanced education programs are destined to impai...

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Main Authors: Cláudia Medronho Naumann, Sergio Guedes de Souza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática 2005-12-01
Series:CLEI Electronic Journal
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Online Access:http://clei.org/cleiej-beta/index.php/cleiej/article/view/317
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description According to 2000 Cense, there are approximately 24.5 million people in Brazil who have some kind of deficiency, where the visually and mobility impaired are the majority. The government actions are mainly taken toward to basic education, so not many advanced education programs are destined to impaired people. Although some specialized institutions usually offer several technical courses, they are considered basic-level, and don’t prepare them to get more qualified jobs. On the other hand, the number of corporations that offer jobs to them is reduced. Our institution NCE/UFRJ has been developing accessibility tools since 1993, which provides access to information through, but not only, the Internet. Based on this context, NCE/UFRJ has created the Projeto Habilitar, which main goals are to provide intermediate to high-level courses in both administrative and technical areas for impaired people, to develop a teaching methodology and to develop or upgrade accessibility tools to be used in future courses and by other institutions as well. The strategy applied to start this project was to deploy a pilot course. The course chosen is called Cisco Networking Academy Program, implemented by Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest corporation in networking technology of the world.
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spelling doaj.art-54fbdd4beb19408a9335d843ce69c5a12022-12-22T01:07:59ZengCentro Latinoamericano de Estudios en InformáticaCLEI Electronic Journal0717-50002005-12-018210.19153/cleiej.8.2.3Proposal for Development of Teaching Methodology and Accessibility Tool for Professional Qualification of Visual and Mobility Impaired PeopleCláudia Medronho Naumann0Sergio Guedes de Souza1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Núcleo de Computação EletrônicaUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Núcleo de Computação EletrônicaAccording to 2000 Cense, there are approximately 24.5 million people in Brazil who have some kind of deficiency, where the visually and mobility impaired are the majority. The government actions are mainly taken toward to basic education, so not many advanced education programs are destined to impaired people. Although some specialized institutions usually offer several technical courses, they are considered basic-level, and don’t prepare them to get more qualified jobs. On the other hand, the number of corporations that offer jobs to them is reduced. Our institution NCE/UFRJ has been developing accessibility tools since 1993, which provides access to information through, but not only, the Internet. Based on this context, NCE/UFRJ has created the Projeto Habilitar, which main goals are to provide intermediate to high-level courses in both administrative and technical areas for impaired people, to develop a teaching methodology and to develop or upgrade accessibility tools to be used in future courses and by other institutions as well. The strategy applied to start this project was to deploy a pilot course. The course chosen is called Cisco Networking Academy Program, implemented by Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest corporation in networking technology of the world.http://clei.org/cleiej-beta/index.php/cleiej/article/view/317DeficiencyDigital InclusionSpecial TeachingTechnical QualifyingDevelopment of Technology for Impaired People
spellingShingle Cláudia Medronho Naumann
Sergio Guedes de Souza
Proposal for Development of Teaching Methodology and Accessibility Tool for Professional Qualification of Visual and Mobility Impaired People
CLEI Electronic Journal
Deficiency
Digital Inclusion
Special Teaching
Technical Qualifying
Development of Technology for Impaired People
title Proposal for Development of Teaching Methodology and Accessibility Tool for Professional Qualification of Visual and Mobility Impaired People
title_full Proposal for Development of Teaching Methodology and Accessibility Tool for Professional Qualification of Visual and Mobility Impaired People
title_fullStr Proposal for Development of Teaching Methodology and Accessibility Tool for Professional Qualification of Visual and Mobility Impaired People
title_full_unstemmed Proposal for Development of Teaching Methodology and Accessibility Tool for Professional Qualification of Visual and Mobility Impaired People
title_short Proposal for Development of Teaching Methodology and Accessibility Tool for Professional Qualification of Visual and Mobility Impaired People
title_sort proposal for development of teaching methodology and accessibility tool for professional qualification of visual and mobility impaired people
topic Deficiency
Digital Inclusion
Special Teaching
Technical Qualifying
Development of Technology for Impaired People
url http://clei.org/cleiej-beta/index.php/cleiej/article/view/317
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