Accessible and collaborative moodle-based learning management environment for web users with varying degrees of hearing

Proceedings of the 14th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, CATE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 73-79

  Kosec, Primož ^a   Debevc, Matjaž ^a   Kožuh, Ines ^a   Rotovnik, Milan ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Deaf and hard of hearing; Evaluation; Learning management system; Sign language video; Subtitles

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; EVALUATION; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; SIGN LANGUAGE; SUBTITLES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; EXPERIMENTS;

AUDITION;

EID: 82455192625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2316/P.2011.734-039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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