Experiences from Running a Voice-Based Education Platform for Children and Teachers with Visual Impairments

Roshni Poddar, Tarini Naik, Manikanteswar Punnam, Kavyansh Chourasia, Rajeswari Pandurangan, Rajesh S Paali, Nagarathna R Bhat, Bhagyashree Biradar, Venkatesh Deshpande, Devidatta Ghosh, Sudipta Ray Chaudhuri, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Amit Prakash, Manohar Swaminathan
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India has the world’s largest population of children with vision impairments (CVIs), a group facing significant educational barriers including inadequate accessible resources, limited school access, and a shortage of trained teachers. The authors from four different organizations including a non-profit dedicated to enhancing STEM education for CVIs through interactive, play-based learning and teacher training have collaborated to create SEEDS, Scalable Educational Experiences with Digital Scaffolding. This is a voice-based platform for educational experiences delivery, featuring an Android Teacher App, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system, and a comprehensive website for content management. The Teacher app facilitates educational experiences via group calls with students, while the IVR system offers students independent access to educational content using feature phones. To assess effectiveness and usability of SEEDS among students and teachers, we conducted a mixed-methods study involving 29 visually impaired students across five schools and five facilitators (3 sighted and 2 visually impaired) from Vision Empower Trust . Despite challenges like internet connectivity issues causing call drops, the study highlighted strong student engagement and a collaborative environment among facilitators. By open-sourcing the SEEDS codebase, we aim to improve the platform and increase its adoption among teachers in schools for CVIs across India and beyond.
视障儿童和教师语音教育平台的运行经验
印度是世界上视力障碍儿童(CVIs)人数最多的国家,这一群体面临着巨大的教育障碍,包括可获得的资源不足、入学机会有限以及训练有素的教师短缺。作者来自四个不同的组织,其中包括一个致力于通过互动、游戏式学习和教师培训来加强视障儿童 STEM 教育的非营利组织,他们合作创建了 SEEDS,即数字脚手架可扩展教育体验。这是一个基于语音的教育体验交付平台,包括一个安卓教师应用程序、一个交互式语音应答(IVR)系统和一个用于内容管理的综合网站。教师应用程序通过与学生的群组通话促进教育体验,而 IVR 系统则让学生使用功能手机独立访问教育内容。为了评估 SEEDS 在学生和教师中的有效性和可用性,我们开展了一项混合方法研究,涉及五所学校的 29 名视障学生和来自视觉赋能信托基金的五名主持人(3 名健视者和 2 名视障者)。尽管存在网络连接问题导致掉线等挑战,但研究强调了学生的强烈参与性和主持人之间的协作环境。通过开源 SEEDS 代码库,我们的目标是改进该平台,并提高其在印度及其他国家的视障人士学校教师中的采用率。
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