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-19
  • Start & end year

    2020
    2021
  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $26,400
  • Funder

    Royal Academy of Engineering (RAENG)
  • Principal Investigator

    Olga Lucía Ocampo Toro
  • Research Location

    Colombia
  • Lead Research Institution

    Universidad EIA
  • Research 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.