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This project describes the development of an available e-learning design project for teaching innovative IT network program to visually impaired students. The program contains a virtual classroom, accessible learning materials, a remote computer laboratory, and delivery of the learning materials by teachers with vision disables. [1] The Cisco Program Course in Advanced IT was improved, and the accessible on-line learning environment was developed to supply the courses [2]. These teachers were used to assist with accessible methods and providing the materials to the visually impaired students. Estimate results shows that visually impaired students situated both locally and distantly got equivalent grades, as the sighted students, because of additional time to comprehend and experiment via the virtual classroom and remote computer laboratory. In addition, the use of visually impaired teacherss has resulted in more advanced approaches to understandable teaching methods and a successful program.
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The author would like to thank the Project Manager of the (Cisco Academy for the Vision Impaired), the School of Design of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, IADE-Creative University), Professor Holly Taylor Depart. of Psychology Tufts University, Boston, USA, FCT- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and technology, the colleagues of the project team and the visually impaired students, who dedicated so much of their time to this research. The FCT in part funded the delivery of the Cisco training program for the visually impaired in 2007/2008.
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Lobo, T. (2018). Teaching an Innovative E-learning Design Program for Visually Impaired Students. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Kercher, P. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 587. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60597-5_42
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