A large number of special education teachers in the United States are prepared in alternative certification programs and insufficient empirical information exists regarding their knowledge of assistive technology. The purpose of this study was to conduct a preliminary investigation of alternatively licensed special education teachers’ knowledge, experience, and confidence with assistive technol...

There is a growing recognition that an appropriate up to date preparation of all teachers and other educational personnel working with people with disabilities has to focus on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and especially on Assistive Technologies (AT). Numerous activities and projects related to teacher education and training have been performed the last years. Also the field...

This paper describes three initial case studies of software use by teachers to support learners with special educational needs. In each case, the teachers were observed to be appropriating the software in ways that went beyond the intended use of the technologies. Appropriation has been previously explored as a positive process that provides benefits to users, yet these cases suggest that there...

Visually impaired people face numerous challenges when it comes to transportation. Not only must they circumvent obstacles while navigating, but they also need access to essential information related to available public transport, up-to-date weather forecast, and convenient method for booking private taxis. In this paper we introduce ​Transport Assistant a voice based assistive technology proto...

Death from trauma is most often the result of uncontrollable bleeding as a result of Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy (ATC), a disease that manifests itself differently in different subcohorts of trauma patients. Understanding the mechanisms of ATC and how existing patient tests can inform us about these mechanisms is key to treating the disease. We introduce a hierarchical Canonical Correlation An...

Tutoring systems that engage each student as both a tutee and a tutor can be powerfully enhanced by motivating each tutor to try to appropriately challenge their tutee. The BEEweb platform is presented as a foundation upon which to build such systems, based upon the Reciprocal Tutoring protocol and the Teachers Dilemma. Three systems that have recently been built on the BEEweb platform are intr...

The need for determining and maintaining quality in the process of designing, developing and delivering online courses is becoming an important issue for universities and institutions worldwide. Teaching online may be a different process to conventional teaching, involving possible changes to pedagogy and teaching practice such as learner-centered education and collaborative learning. According...

Adaptive design is usually defined as the use of accumulating data obtained during the conduct of the trial to decide how to modify aspects of the trial as it progresses, without affecting its validity and integrity (Gallo et al., 2006). This form of research design involves a prospectively planned opportunity to modify the parameters of the study based on analysis of interim data while the stu...