Teaching Sight Impaired IT Students

This paper describes a research project to convert Cisco network administration e- learning education materials to a format that can be accessed and undertaken by sight impaired students. The changing nature of educational materials and the associated problems faced by vision impaired students are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Murray, Iain, Armstrong, Helen
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24124
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Summary:This paper describes a research project to convert Cisco network administration e- learning education materials to a format that can be accessed and undertaken by sight impaired students. The changing nature of educational materials and the associated problems faced by vision impaired students are discussed. A description of both the high-tech and low-tech solutions applied to this unique teaching environment is presented. Results so far are reported together with a discussion of future plans for the project.