VBraille. A platform to connect schools&engineers for quality education
- Funded by Royal Academy of Engineering (RAENG)
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Start & end year
20202021Known Financial Commitments (USD)
$26,400Funder
Royal Academy of Engineering (RAENG)Principal Investigator
Olga Lucía Ocampo ToroResearch Location
ColombiaLead Research Institution
Universidad EIAResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures
Research Subcategory
Social impacts
Special Interest Tags
N/A
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Unspecified
Vulnerable Population
Unspecified
Occupations of Interest
Unspecified
Abstract
Delivering or receiving quality education has changed during the COVID-19_pandemic, and those changes have come to stay. Schools have been moved to home and parents had become teachers. This circumstance has exacerbated two serious situations that can difficult educational process of all students,but especially educational process of students with disabilities.The first situation is about teachers,who are not trained to educate through virtuality and there are no tools or training to guide them in this new way to teach.The second situation is about parents, who have become teachers at home and need a lot of help to guide the educational process of their children.These challenges become more complex to educate students with disabilities who need an education designed and based on their abilities and capabilities.VBraille platform, responds to these challenges connecting teachers, parents, students, and engineers to make possible a quality virtual education for all students but specially ideated thought for students with disability and their particular conditions to learn and communicate. Through a device(braille keyboard) we provide engineered solutions to connect students with their teachers, who will be trained to use the platform in order to increase their impact on quality education delivered during and probably after the pandemic.