scholarly journals The Effect of Flipped Classroom Strategy via Smart Phones in Academic Achievement in the English Language for Blind and Visually Impaired Students

Author(s):  
Mohammad Abedrabbu Alkhawaldeh ◽  
Mohamad Ahmad Saleem Khasawneh

This study aimed to determine the effect of flipped classroom strategy via smart phones in academic achievement in the English language for blind and visually impaired students. To achieve the goal of the study, the researcher used the quasi-experimental approach, and the study sample consisted of (18) blind and visually impaired students at the Senses Center in the city of Irbid, which consisted of (9) students of the experimental group studied using the flipped classroom strategy via smart phones, and (9) (Students for the control group, which studied using the traditional method. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the control and experimental groups in favor of the experimental. This study recommended holding training workshops for teachers at the institute in order to familiarize them with the importance of modern teaching methods such as the flipped classroom strategy, and how to adapt it using smart phone applications and modern technology to suit the blind and visually impaired and designing courses with exercises and models inspired by the flipped classroom, and expanding the application of such programs at all educational levels.

Author(s):  
M. S. Heetha ◽  
M. Shenbagapriya ◽  
M. Bharanidharan

Visually impaired people face many challenges in the society; particularly students with visual impairments face unique challenges in the education environment. They struggle a lot to access the information, so to resolve this obstacle in reading and to allow the visually impaired students to fully access and participate in the curriculum with the greatest possible level of independence, a Braille transliteration system using VLSI is designed. Here Braille input is given to FPGA Virtex-4 kit via Braille keyboard. The Braille language is converted into English language by decoding logic in VHDL/Verilog and then the corresponding alphabet letter is converted into speech signal with the help of the algorithm. Speaker is used for the voice output. This project allows the visually impaired people to get literate also the person can get a conformation about what is being typed, every time that character is being pressed, this prevents the occurrence of mistakes.


Author(s):  
Julia Boltenkova ◽  
Alena Nevolina ◽  
Viktor Koksharov ◽  
Shengji Li ◽  
Tatiana Rasskazova ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabil Hewahi ◽  
Ghadeer Abu-Shaban ◽  
Esraa El-Ashqer ◽  
Ayat Abu-Noqaira ◽  
Nour El-Wadiya

As smart phones appeared with their elegant, easy and exciting touch functionality, the use of touch screen devices has been spreading very fast. Beside the previous advantages, smart phones addresses some new challenges for people with disabilities. Most of visually impaired people don't prefer using touch-screen devices, as these lack the tactile feedback and are visually demanding. However, there have been some solutions to come over these problems, but they were not enough. Some of these solutions is to connect a special equipment to a smart phone to allow the visually impaired user to enter the required input. Other applications help visually impaired people to use the smart phones and read whatever on the screen by hovering their finger tips on the text. Visually impaired people who use smart phones have to memorize QWERTY keyboard which have a large number of targets with small locations specified for each target which will lead to a high proportion of error occurrence. In this paper, the authors propose ABTKA- Arabic Braille Touch Keyboard for Android Users. This application is the first application for Arabic language that uses Braille language for visually impaired who are using smart phones or intended to do so. ABTKA facilitates text-entry functionality by supporting Braille writing on touch screens. The used approach in the proposed system can be easily adapted to other languages. The main advantages of the used approach are that it does not need any extra equipment to be connected to the smart phone; it is dynamic (no fixed positions for the touch points), simple to use, one entry for each character, supported by voice and respond promptly to the input. ABTKA involves various algorithms to achieve its objectives. It starts with entering the user standard locations of finger tips, then the user can enter any Braille character which has to be reindexed to be in the same order of Perkins Brailler's buttons. Any inserted character is converted to Arabic character. Any converted character will have a voice feedback. Words and full sentences will also have voice feedback. ABTKA has been tested by various visually impaired people and proved that it is easy to learn and simple to use.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manal Al-Ghamdi ◽  
Abdullah Al-Bargi

This qunatitatively based research utilising quasi experimental design, sought to explore the effect of implementing the flipped classroom (FC) pedagogical approach on female, preparatory year program (PYP) English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at the English Language Institute (ELI), King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Saudi Arabia. An experimental group as well as a control group were assigned in this study. The data collection was carried out using multiple sources, including pre- and post-speaking achievement tests in addition to two custom designed questionnaires. The results revealed that the FC did not sufficiently enhance the experimental group’s speaking skill to cause a statistical significance in comparison to the controlled group. On the other hand, students held a positive attitude toward the FC experiment and the used instructional videos. The study also aims to enlighten and familiarise EFL colleagues within the context of Saudi Arabia, as well EFL colleagues from around the world, with this pedagogical approach in the area of EFL education. Conclusions and recommendations for future research studies are presented at the end of this paper.


1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (10) ◽  
pp. 434-443
Author(s):  
Martha Bagley

The following study presents an overview of career development needs of blind and visually impaired individuals and discusses results of a 1983–84 survey of school teachers (grades K, 3, 6, 9 and 12), rehabilitation counselors, management staff of rehabilitation agencies and agency administrators that assessed career development needs of severely visually impaired persons and resources available to meet those needs. Individuals surveyed felt that their students or clients need greater accessibility to career development tasks, experiences, and resources, and that none of the resources listed in the survey are readily accessible now, and many are inaccessible. Four basic conclusions are discussed.


10.5241/6-100 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang Hee I ◽  
Rachel Ananda Harianto ◽  
Emily Chen ◽  
Yeon Soo Lim ◽  
Wonjin Jo ◽  
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