empowering young people with disability through stem and online education
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Empowering Young People with Disability through STEM and Online
EducationSang-Mook Lee
Seoul National Universitysmlee@snu.ac.kr
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Outline• A brief history of myself• Fame brings power to change things• “Computer is god's gift to people with
disability”• Quality of Life Technology Initiative• Computational Sciences as path to
STEM• Open Online Education (e.g., MOOC)
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No depression or psychological prob-lem:
Near-death experience or damage to the brain?
A quick return back to the society thru Occu-pational Therapy and Assistive Technology
Special input device
Speech recognition
Modified vehicle
“Computer is god’s gift to disabled people.”“The gap between people is reduced in cyber-space.”
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Stephen Hawking of Korea andchance to do something
Ministry of Knowledge Economyand
Quality of Life Technology
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GDP per Capita: Brazil versus Korea
Source: FRA Report
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At the center of Knowledge Economy is Information and Communication Technology
The same technology we use daily can be used to solve important problems facing our society such as inclusion and diversity.
Three Major Difficulties of People with Disability • Economic hardship • Inclusion in society • Strain in family relationship
Independent LivingAssistive Technology & Education Leading to Job
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Quality of Life TechnologyResearch & Development
- Accessible vehicles- Personalized cellphones & software- Exercise & health monitoring devices- Exoskeleton robots- Korean speech recognitions & AACs
Infrastructure & Human Res. Development- UX/UI, infrastructural R&D- Advanced ICT training- Precollege activities, mentoring- Undergrad program in Computational Sci-
ences- Grad prog in Rehabilitation Science & Tech-
nology
Quality of Life TechnologyResearch & Development
- Accessible vehicles- Personalized cellphones & software- Exercise & health monitoring devices- Exoskeleton robots- Korean speech recognitions & AACs
Infrastructure & Human Res. Development- UX/UI, infrastructural R&D- Advanced ICT training- Precollege activities, mentoring- Undergrad program in Computational
Sciences- Grad prog in Rehabilitation Science & Tech-
nology
Science is all about observation and exper-iment. But some things are impractical to observe or conduct direct measurement. In such case, we use computer to simulate natural phenomena.
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Program in Computational Sciences
• Numerical Analysis• Data Science (Big Data, Bioinformatics)• Graphics & Visualization
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At Seoul National University
• Currently 30 students (5 with disability)• 2% quota in elite science and fine art high schools in
Metropolitan Seoul (Admission of 30 students with disability every year)
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Online Education
• For nondisabled people, it’s effectiveness
can be debated and is an option• For people with disability, it can some-
times be the only solution
• Assumptions: – Online education is a headache for established
universities– 99% of Koreans are disabled when it comes to
listening English lectures (language barrier)
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Disability is diverse so there cannot be one-size-fits-all solu-
tion.
But two important questions:
• How do you teach a blind person math?superb memory and logical
• How do you teach a deaf person English?
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QoLTx: New accessible so-lution
• Goal: To provide foundational courses for student with disability across the border
• Starting with edX platform (Ruby and
Python) and improving its accessibility• Making courses at precollege, freshman
and sophomore levels (science, engineer-ing and math)
• Multilingual (Korean, English and Arabic)• Creating new jobs for people with disabil-
ity• Off-line voluntary services (academic
Peace Corps) to developing countries
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My Vision
By making online education accessible and multilingual, we might be able to help not only people with disability but also women in developing countries.
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