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Design of an Assistive Learning Environment for the Learning Disabled

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Title Design of an Assistive Learning Environment for the Learning Disabled
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Contributor M Sasikumar
 
Subject ASLENML
Assistive Learning Environment
Learning Disabilities
Transformation Model
XML
 
Description Students with Learning Disabilities (LD) have diverse difficulties, often hidden or
newlinesubtle, that affect learning throughout their life. Each LD learner has their own unique set of strengths, weaknesses, interests, experiences and special abilities.These difficulties can be alleviated by providing an appropriate learning environment for them.
newlineWe propose a framework, an Assistive Learning Environment (ASLEN) to enhance the learning experience of LD students in their academic life. Rather than the full
newlineenvironment, we focus on content transformation based on LD learner s requirement. Thus, our proposed framework is capable of recognizing what content has to delivered, variability associated with each LD learner and transformations associated with the content to deliver it to the LD learner. A Student Model is designed which gathers information about the LD student and turns this information into the basis for instructional decisions. A Transformation Model is developed within our framework
newlinewhose objective is to transform the given content in a way acceptable by the specific LD learner. These transformations are a complex process and it has to be done at various levels. At each level, various types of knowledge is required to perform the various transformations recommended by the Transformation Knowledge Base. A content repository is developed where the entire course content is stored with a rich set of annotations. It must be rich enough to capture all the requirements of the LD learner at alphabet level, word level, sentence level and paragraph level. So we have created
newlineASLENML an XML based markup language for this purpose that represents our
newlinecontent repository. A prototype implementation of our framework has been completed and sample interactions are presented. The system allows the user to indicate when transformations and configurations recommended by the system are not appropriate to the user.
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Date 2017-08-14T08:00:18Z
2017-08-14T08:00:18Z
27/08/2011
23/06/2016
23/06/2016
 
Type Ph.D.
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10603/166343
 
Language English
 
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Rights university
 
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DVD
 
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Publisher Mumbai
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Department of Electronic Engineering
 
Source University