karel van isacker (e-isotis, e-isotis)

ATE2007, Athens, Greece, 27th January 2007

An Introduction to the EU4ALL(European Unified Approach for

Assisted Lifelong Learning) project Towards an Open, Standard-based, Reusable and Extensible

Architecture of Services for Accessible Lifelong Learning

Karel Van Isacker (e-ISOTIS, www.e-ISOTIS.org)


• Project Partners• Why Accessibility?• EU4ALL key issues• Personalised and Standard-based Services

4ALL– Full lifecycle of adaptation

• Focused on users

– Services for ALL• End-users & services providers

• Conclusions


PartnersPartnersN Name Country

1 Atos Origin SAE SPAIN

2 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia SPAIN

3 Open University UK

4 Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

GERMANY

5 University of York UK

6 Soluziona SA SPAIN

7 Cambridge Training and Development UK

8 Information Society Open to ImpairmentS GREECE

9 Giunti Interactive Labs S.r.l. ITALY

10 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities NETHERLANDS

11 Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile ITALY

12 Centre for Social Innovation, Universität für Bodenkultur AUSTRIA

13 Disabled Peoples’ International Italy ITALY


Why Accessibility?Why Accessibility?

Questions

• % of population having 1 or more disabilities

• % of students having a disability



Institutional reasons• Viviane Reding’s speech in the European

Parliament (Sept 29th, 2004)

– Access to education & Life Long Learning are key ingredients of a socially inclusive society

– eEurope 2005 puts users at the centre (eInclusion: opportunities for ALL)

• Adoption of the LLL-program by the EP (October

2006)


• Many countries are introducing legislation that makes discrimination against disabled people (in education) illegal

• Accessible learning cannot be achieved in the traditional ways technology enhanced learning



Operational reasons • To open up to more broader target groups and

learning materials: accessibility as a basic requirement

• Urgent need to develop new LLL infrastructures and services

• Defining adaptations over time, based on (new) users’ needs

to provide improved user satisfaction



• Achieve a shared and usable model of services to support equality of access to the European Higher Education Area– Development of ontologies for users– Development of ontologies for services

• Support key stakeholders in LLL (all partners)

Objectives

Key IssuesKey Issues


Objectives

• Provide service chains that can be configured (users + teachers + tutors + specialised personnel + admin. people)– Service chains (service paths and different users’

types/roles)– CTA: Constructive Technology Assessment

strategy:

Users’ involvement throughout the entire process of design and redesign




• Assess and validate the services developed on a large scale via the involvement of key stakeholders

• Introduce learning scenarios involving hundreds of users (adult learners with special needs and teachers)

Objectives



• Definition of Assistive Technologies and types of access– User diversity – Institutional involvement

Objectives



• Construct an open, standard-based, reusable and extensible architecture of services for ALL which supports learners and service providers– Networking: Network services– Distributed Computing: Middleware services– Information Layer: Object model, Common

repositories– Core services– User services

Objectives


Open Accessible ArchitectureOpen Accessible Architecture

network services

middleware services

Common Repositories

Object Model

Third parties’Services

Networking

Distributed Computing

-Information Layer

Core Services (basic functionalities)

End-User Services

LD Engine

User Services (ALL functionalities)

Tracking Services CollaborationServicesAudit

Services Adaptation Services



• Develop user-centred services (needs + preferences + pedagogical guidelines and adaptive behaviour) Adaptive service delivery

Design time + Run time

Objectives

LMS Auditing

User

Administrator

O-ASA Usage

LMS Administration

Tutor / Mentoring

Authoring / Design

Author

LD + QTI

User Manager Service Manager

PresentationInstructional Design Interactive ServicesQTI InterpreterAdaptation Module Audit

Personalised servicesPersonalised services


Personalised servicesPersonalised services Objectives

Practice

Contact Tutor

QTI re-test

Remediation

QTI test

Inductive/visual Deductive/verbal

Yes

No

Yes

No

Learning StyleProperty value?

Mastered QTI test?

Mastered Re-test?

Practice

Contact Tutor

QTI re-test

Remediation

QTI test

Inductive/visual Deductive/verbal

Yes

No

Yes

No

Learning StyleProperty value?

Mastered QTI test?

Mastered Re-test?


• Accessible LLL is becoming a critical issue for many Higher Educaton institutions– Anticipating on contemporary legislation– Developing services for an increasing number of

adults and students with disabilities

• EU4ALL is a 48-months European integrated project in the area of eInclusion with the involvement of key stakeholders– Defining and developing an extensible

“architecture” of European-wide services to support LLL

ConclusionsConclusions


ConclusionsConclusions

– Defining a general open framework based on standards and domain independent

– Assessing and validating the services developed on a large scale via the involvement of the key stakeholders (real scenarios and users)

– Developing services for service providers (faculty, tutors, administrative people)

– Obtaining institutional involvement and commitment

– EU4ALL aims to create a platform for the diffusion and benchmarking of research results in all major open and distance teaching universities in Europe


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What is e-ISOTIS

• Information Society Open To ImpairmentS e-ISOTIS

• Non profit International• Make a difference not only for people with

disabilities, but also with people with disabilities• Conception – Commercialisation • New Era on Information Society and on

Community of PwD


e-ISOTIS activities

• Primary information and advice resource center

• Advice industry and policy makers

• Organise innovative training programmes

• Provide legal advice on national and European legislation

• Facilitate the employability of disabled people,

• Conduct research on legislations, policies and approaches

• Organise international workshops, conferences and other events


e-ISOTIS Approach

Level 4: Personal assistance where individual adaptation and individual assistive technology are not adequate.

Level 1: Universal design should cover the needs of as many as possible.

Level 2: Adaptation for groups with identical needs for adaptation.

Level 3: Individual adaptation and individual assistive technology


e-ISOTIS Equity• Permanent and temporarily Staff

– Disabled people, psychologists, trainers, ICT specialists, market analysts, lawyers, usability experts,

– 50 volunteers and team of External Consultants

• European Presence• Links to 360.000 people with

disabilities• Strong lobby links with European

Institutions


Our Community

• European Presence– National Federation of Disabled Persons’ Associations (MEOSZ) in

Hungary (PD)– Bethany Social Services Foundation in Romania (Disabled Children)– Marie Curie in Bulgaria (Sensory & PD)– Flemish Federation of Disabled in Belgium (Sensory & PD)– Sonokids Foundation in Netherlands (Blind)– MTÜ Miloserdie (NGO Mercy) in Estonia (PD)– CROATIAN UNION OF ASSOCIATIONS OF PERSONS

DISABILITIES – SOIH – FENACERCI in Portugal (Mentally Disabled People)– Italian Union of the Blind (Blind)– PAN-HELLENIC UNION PARAPLEGIC AND PHYSICALLY

CHALLENGED (PD)– Foundation Dominican Of Blind Inc. in Dominican Republic (Blind)– The Association for the Mental Disabled of Lithuania (Mentally

Disabled People)– The Association of Paraplegic in Drama (PD)– ZIVOT 90 in Prague (Elderly)– ATLHAS (Italy)


European Presence•Associations from RO, BG, HU, B, EL, I, P, NL, EE, CZ, LT, CR,

See www.e-isotis.org/members.php

•Cooperation links with I, F, D, A, SI, UK, E, TR, S, FIN, CZ, MT, CY

•International Links to US, India, China, Japan, AU, Dominican Republic

LT

P

BH

CRIT

E

BG

ROHU

EE

CZ


e-ISOTIS Activities Jigsaw

Assess ICT Services

Sustainability

Standardisation

Accessibility

Promotion

lobbyingTraining

Employability


e-ISOTIS projects/initiatives

ICT Services for Disabled and Elderly• ASK-IT • Equal Access• EU4ALL• AHVIIT• Access e-Gov• EMERGE• ENABLE• Web Accessibility Quality Mark

Surveys/Studies• EU@Inclusion• e-Accessibility policies

Training/Employability• MOTRASUP• Mentoring Validation• Career without Barriers• BASKI• VOCA II• EC Funding exploitation• GAME-ON• GAMBE• Check&Go

E-Learning• EURIDICE • MOTRASUP• DEA• EC Funding Exploitation

Legal Services• IUS COMMUNE• Online legal advice

Family Education• PEDA

Standardisation Committees • ETSI Human Factors Technical Committee• ANEC ICT and design4all Working Groups

Social/Leisure - Information services, public relations

• Competitions, school visits abroad• TV4EUROPE• Exhibitions, events, conferences• Members of International and European

organisations


Further info

www.e-isotis.org

• Projects/initiatives Coordinator

Mr. Nikolaos Floratos

[email protected]

• European Projects Manager:Mr. Karel Van [email protected]

karel van isacker (e-isotis, e-isotis)

Documents

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usable model of services

users involvement

new users

users teachers

disabilitywhy accessibility

learningwhy accessibility

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