Evaluating the Efficiency of the Instructional Websites "Which are Oriented to the Deaf Students" According to the Technical Criteria"

Modern technology supports hearing impairment strongly so that such technology not only enhances the hearing impairment disability but it compensates the disability via the visual information of the multimedia technique. Websites for the Deaf are effective aspect of such technology. Deaf student can use the internet as effective learning source. Due to the wide using of the e-learning modules (eLMs) for the Deaf, the authors have developed an evaluating system for eLMs for the Deaf according to selected criterions regarding the instructional environment of teaching/learning process for the Deaf via e-learning. This system had been named as ES-HI [1]. Also the wide using of the net by the Deaf became effectively as friendly learning source. Therefore the authors presented this paper to evaluate the efficiency of such learning source/ instructional websites according to technical criterions. To get the feedback from the current research work, the authors have done scanning to the related websites. The features of the visited/scanned web sites are of instructional / learning. In spite of not all the mentioned sites are pure educational sites but the authors have get benefits from them. Some sites talk about teaching Deaf Students the modes of communication like sign language, lip movements and finger spelling. Some sites talk about the fun of instructional games, others are about chatting between Deaf Students and so on. The authors presented a table of the concern criteria. However this table represents the core of this work to realize the required evaluation process. The table contents around 100 items of technical criteria. The authors reviewed amount of websites regarding the current research and applied the evaluation process to get the valuable feedback so as to from some major conclusions. About the sources of the required technical criteria , the main sources are considered from the literatures of special needs science, Instructional computer science, internet programming, software development. Besides the results, conclusions and recommendations of the previous researches regarding the current topic. Definitions Efficiency : The successful performance of the objectives of the Website on using by the Deaf students. The This research aims at : 1-Evaluating the instructional web sites which are used by the Deaf. For such accurate evaluation process it is suggested to consider an integrated and various criteria which have relation with the mentioned sites. This evaluating process aims at examining the efficiency of that Website. 2-To realize the desired evaluating process, it …