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Sound in European E-Learning
P1 University Paderborn – UPB Germany
Project Title Sound in European E-Learning
Project Acronym SEEL
Reference Number 2014-1-DE02-KA200-001631
Project Duration 01.09.2014 – 31.08.2016
Project Partners P1 University Paderborn – UPB (Germany)P2 Ingenious Knowledge – IK (Germany)P3 Základní škola – ZSC (Czech Republic)
P4 Colegiul Tehnic Ion I. C. Bratianu – CTI (Romania)
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any
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Table of content
Editorial
1. Introduction
1.1 Definition of visual impairment
1.1.1 Legal oriented classification
1.1.2 Medical oriented classification
1.1.3 Pedagogical oriented classifications
1.2 eLearning - a very short overview
2. Description of the SEEL Project
2.1 Aims and Objectives of SEEL
2.2 The SEEL sound database
2.3 SEEL Learning Micro Units
3. Situation of visual impaired in Europe
a. CZ
b. RO
c. DE
4. (Students!) Experiments of sound in education (Screenshots and
short description)
a. Every partner provide descriptions
5. Teacher Training (Short description of every partner + pic)
6. Course creator (Screenshot and short description)
7. Future overview and impacts, recommendations
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Editorial
In this book, we introduce the European Project SEEL- Sounds in European E-Learning- and
the impact of sound in eLearning contexts, Face-to Face Learning and the challengec and
chances of audios for visually impaired learners.
Marc Beutner and Jennifer Schneider, Paderborn 2016
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1. Introduction
Learners, especially visual impaired learners receive a big part of information by
hearing and feeling (cf. LANG 2008, 204 f). Thus, hearing represents an
important and partly compensating approach of information intake (cf.
HUDELMAYER ET AL. 1985, 169). Regarding to PERLETH/EFFINGER
(2001, 148) auditory information are deeper processed with increasing visual
impairment. Therefore, visual impaired people can make a good use of pure
acoustical information. This may lead to a discharge and an improvement of the
learning success (cf. IBID., 150). The World Health Organisation, which work
focus on the topic of visual impairemnet, too published on their website some
overviews of research results of their own studies (WHO, 2016):
Figure: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/
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285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide
39 million are blind and 246 have low vision.
About 90% of the world's visually impaired live in low-income settings.
82% of people living with blindness are aged 50 and above.
Globally, uncorrected refractive errors are the main cause of moderate and severe visual impairment; cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness in middle- and low-income countries.
The number of people visually impaired from infectious diseases has reduced in the last 20 years according to global estimates work.
80% of all visual impairment can be prevented or cured.
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Before this book go deep in the topics of the European Project SEEL, the
situation of visual impaired learners in the different countries of the consortium
and the results of Online Survey, it is necessary to start with some theoretical
backgrounds and definitions.
1.1Definition of visual impaired person
Visual impairment is the general term for the terms of high-grade visual
impairment and blindness and summarizes diverse types of not or different
seeing (cf. HUDELMAYER 1975, 17 f; cf. WALTHES 1999, 165; cf.
BORCHERT 2007, 40). The classification and definition of these terms is set
different.
In general, the measurement of eyesight – also known as Visus – for the
distance under consideration of correction tools underlies the definition (cf.
HOFER 2008b, 28).
Regarding to the visual impairment is anticipated a substantial reduction
of sight which is based on changes of the organ of sight (eye, visual
nerve, visual centre in brain) and usually results in a permanent, serious
and extensive disability in different areas of life (RATH 1997, 162).
Fundamental, persons are classified as visual impaired if their visual ability is
between total blindness and normal sight (cf. RATH 1987, 13 f).
Below are introduced several classifications of visual impairment to illustrate
the heterogeneity of those terms.
1.1.1 Legal oriented classification
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The legal basis defines visual impairment as a disability of sight. The
classification is dependent of the visual acuity under consideration of correction
tools. Moreover, losses of the visual field and the field of vision are included
(see AHP Nr. 26 (4)).
In addition, persons are classified as blind in the case that their visual acuity on
none of their eyes is more than 0,02 (1/50) (cf. § 76 Abs. 2a Nr.3 BSHG, AHP
Nr.23 (2)).
As high-grade visual impaired people are classified if their visual acuity is not
more than 0,05 (1/20) on none of their eyes or if they have other disabilities of
their visual function (cf. AHP Nr.23 (2), (5)).
1.1.2 Medical oriented classification
Visual impairment is defined in Germany after RATH (1987, 19 f) which
consists on base of the BUNDESARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT FÜR
REHABILITATION (1984) and refers to DEUTSCHER BILDUNGSRAT (1973)
(BUNDESARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT FÜR REHABILITATION 1984, 140
ff; DEUTSCHER BILDUNGSRAT 1973, 36, 39/40, cit. in RATH 1987, 19 f).
There are 4 levels of visual function, according to the International
Classification of Diseases -10 (Update and Revision 2006):
normal vision
moderate visual impairment
severe visual impairment
blindness.
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represents all visual impairment
(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/; 2016.
1.1.3 Pedagogical oriented classifications
The KULTUSMINISTERKONFERENZ DER LÄNDER (KMK) suggested a
classification which better fit to the pedagogical requirements (cf. WALTHES
2014, 57; cf. WALTHES 1999, 166). They described in the year 1998:
Blind children and adolescent cannot or just to a lesser extent learn on the base
of visual impressions. They receive information from the environment in
particular through hearing and the sense of touch as well as the sense of the skin,
the smell and the taste (KMK 1998, 3).
Moreover, children and adolescent with a visual impairment can use their
restricted sight. In many situations they are dependent on special assistance.
They need special instruction, special needs education and technical assistance.
This can also be necessary for visual impairment of lower grade like for
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exists if one eye has a visual acuity of 0,3 - 0,0067 and the other one 0,3 or less.
Low vision/visual impairment
A high-grade visual impairment is present insofar as the visual acuity on one eye is 0,5 and on the second 0,5 or less.
High- grade visual impairment
Blindness is given if the better eye has a visual acuity of 0,02 or less.
Blindness
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impairment of both eye’s sight or for monocular vision“ (IBID., 3).
1.2 eLearning – A very short overview
To define eLearning it is necessary to know, that there is not that one definition,
that can be quote as the most popular one. Relating to the European SEEL
project, the consortium take into account different explanations of eLearning
and provide a short overview of some different definitions.
On the one hand eLearning can be defined very broad. It supports learning by
electronic or digital media. Therefore, you will find a lot of different terms and
methods that are used in combination with eLearning.
Garrission points out that “the term e-Learning came into use in the mid 1990
along with the developments in the World Wide Web and intrests in
asynchronious discussion groups.” (Garrison 2011, p.2)
He defines:
“E-Learning is formally defined as electronically mediated asynchronious and
synchronious communication for the purpose of constructing and confirming
knowledge.” (Garrison 2011, p.2)
Clark and Mayer state that eLearning with focus on graphics and audios like
this:
“Some e‐LEARNING DESCRIBES graphics using word in both on-‐screen text
and audio narration in which the audio repeats the text. We call this technique
redundant on-‐ screen text because the printed text (the on-‐screen text) is
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redundant with the spoken text (the narration or audio).” (Clark / Mayer, 2008 p.
133)
In Germany -for instance- you will find (on the German education server) some
methodical basics for E-Learning. They differentiate between:
Blended Learning
Social Learning and Web2.0
Mobile learning
Serious Games, Game Based Learning, Simulations and Webquests
As you see there are a lot of different possibilities what eLearning might be and
it depend on what kind of eLearning you focus.
Therefore, it also exist a huge range of multimedia principles like:
“1. Sequencing principle
2.Fidelity principle
3.Variablilty principle
4. Individualization principle
5.Training wheels principle
6.Completion-‐strategy principle
7.Redundancy principle
8.Self-‐explanation principle
9.Self-‐pacing principle
10.Temporal split attention principle
11.Spatial split attention principle
12.Signaling principle
13.Modality principle
14.Component fluency” (Maerrienboer / Kester 2005 , p. 78-‐79)
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And even within these methodical basics there are many different methods. For
instance Blended Learning (see e.g. Driscoll 2002).
Blended Learning is a combination of traditional learning and eLearning and
tries to combine the advantages of both. But Blended Learning says nothing
about how to design your eLearning phases. You could use elements of social
learning or mobil learning within Blended Learning approaches. Important for
the question how to use sounds in eLearning is the concretization of eLearning
methods or designs.
There are a lot of questions which are important in the case you would like to
design eLearning. On the one hand it is important to clarify the understanding of
learning and the learning goals. On the other hand it important to have a look at
possibilities.
For the creation of eLearning scenarios there are almost no limits. Therefore you
could be creative and ask yourself what is the best way to achieve the learning
goals and how could sounds and music support this way? In literacy there are
many guidelines and hints how to create learning scenarios. In Germany there
are a lot of very popular didactical approaches (cf. Blankertz 1991; Klafki 1963
and 1985; Heimann 1962; Heimann et al. 1965; and even more). For eLearning
there are also some didactical approaches. Very popular is the instructional
design (cf. Gagne et al. 2005).
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Especially for Game Based Learning Prensky (2001) identified ten challenges:
• Twitch speed vs. conventional speed
• Parallel processing vs. linear processing
• Graphic first vs. text first
• Random access vs. step by step
• Connected vs. standalone
• Active vs. passive
• Play vs. work
• payoff vs. patience
• Fantasy vs. reality
• Technology-‐as-‐friend vs. technology-‐as-‐foe (Prensky 2001, 52)
In this case you see (the first point), there is a direct link to audios and sounds.
But you also recognize that the designing of E-‐Learning setting depends on
many factors.
The attempt to give an answer to the question how sounds and audios could be
integrated in E-‐Learning settings depends on the didactical approach.
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2 Description of the SEEL Project
The project SEEL – Sounds in
European E-Learning (2014-1-DE02-
KA200-001631) is a European
Erasmus+ project in the key action
‘Cooperation for innovation and the
exchange of good practices’, action
‘Strategic Partnerships’. SEEL focuses
the field of vocational education and
training (VET).
Picture: Final SEEL Meeting in Paderborn,
Germany
The project started on the 1st of
September 2014 and its duration
is 24 months. The project
language is English.
Project partners are four partners
from the three countries
Germany, Romania and Czech
Republic.
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In this case, the consortium consists of an university, a technology-oriented
partner for innovative education programs and two development and
implementation schools.
The project aims to develop:
research results in the field of using sound and audio elements in e-
learning settings with a specific focus on vocational education and
training
open learning materials for integration into OER learning opportunities
(Open Educational Resources)
a training course on the use of sound and audio elements in learning
contexts as well as
the so-called SEEL-Learning Solution Network, a partnership that is
committed to long-term issues of the integration of audio elements in
learning processes.
The project SEEL will examine opportunities for using sound in e-learning
settings as a way of enhancing the learning experience and supporting learners.
Special attention will be paid to visually impaired learners. The consortium will
build model implementations and publish them along with scientific articles, on
the website and in handbooks to support future improvements in the
development of open learning content and other types of eLearning applications.
You can find more
detailed information
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project, the consortium and especially about the project results and outcomes at
our project website: Figure: SEEL website
2.1 Aims and Objectives of SEEL
The SEEL project consortium intends to research and develop ways of taking
advantage of sound to enhance learning in eLearning settings. In summary, the
consortium create sample implementations such as instructional videos, audio
lessons, interactive online lessons, exercises, and serious games, test them in
different learning settings, and turn them into model implementations through
the required redesign phases. Special attention will be paid to visually impaired
learners for whom acoustic perception is even more important than for other
learners.
Therefore, the consortium developed an
online sound database, which allows all interested teachers and
learners to download the open licensed audios and sounds. The
consortium published the online database under “Creative Commons
License”1.
1 Creative Commons License: „Use Creative Commons tools to help share your work. Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give you
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One of the main aims were to develop online learning scenarios,
which were tested in Romanian and Czech schools. The content of the
scenarios are related to mathematics, vocabularies in Spanish language
and economical topics.
Moreover, evaluation and testing were focused, too. The consortium
developed an
quantitative online survey for teachers and learners with
the target to generate answers about acceptance, usefulness and
general information about the use of sounds in learning and teaching
environment.
Quantitative online survey for the testing of the learning
scenarios. Learners and teachers had the opportunity to evaluate the
learning scenarios. The results are integrated in a detailed handbook
for teachers as well as in national evaluation- testing reports.
2.2 The SEEL sound database
To support learning and teaching scenarios with sounds and audios, the
consortium developed an online sound database with at least more than xxx
tracks. The consortium provided the audio files as Open Educational Resources
under an open license.
permission to share and use your creative work— on conditions of your choice. You can adopt one of our licenses by sharing on a platform, or choosing a license below.” https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/; status: 23.07.2016.
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“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that
are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-
share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes,
assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation. (UNESCO, 2016)2
The SEEL consortium decided on the open license provider Creative Common
License, especially the standard Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC
BY-SA 4.0). This means you are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the
material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon
the material) the audio-file.
But you have to provide adequate attribution ( provide the name of the creator:
“SEEL Consortium” and the name of the material, a copyright notice, a license
notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to the original material an this website)
and you are only allowed to ShareAlike (in case that you remix, transform, or
build upon the material, you must distribute your parts as well as a free OER
with regard to CC BY-SA 4.0).
The main target group of the online sound database are teachers and trainers in
the field of vocational and general education, who deal with eLearning or create
own eLearning approaches for their classes and courses.
The SEEL Online Sound Database
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Figure: SEEL Online Sound Database (http://seel.eduproject.eu/?page_id=317)
2.3 SEEL Learning Micro Units
One of the main outcomes of the European project SEEL are the online learning
micro units. The pedagogical and didactical experts leaded by Prof. Dr. Marc
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Beutner from the University of Paderborn developed three different online micro
units related to the topics:
Mathematics
Vocabulary
Economics
The following graphics describes the building of an exemplary learning micro
unit of the SEEL consortium:
Figure : SEEL learning unit, Example of the structure
Structure of the SEEL Learning Micro Unit
(1)Every SEEL learning unit starts with a warm welcome and a short
introduction to the learning unit. This first online video has a timeframe
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of about 2 minutes and helps the learners to prepare themselves to the
following learning seccion.
(2)After that, a video started with explanation around the topic. Depending
on the content the speaker introduce the learner to the different subjects,
targets and aims.
(3)Shortly after the explanation, which needs a timeslot of 3 to 4 minutes the
learner will be made familiar with the tasks to do.
(4)Depending on the tasks the learners should prepare the task on a paper
and pencile version for themselves or as a knowledge test, which means
the learner have to memorize vocabularies without any tools.
(5)At least the learning micro unit ends with a final online video with some
final information, which can be changed and added individually.
The consortium provided the online learning units as Open Educational
Resources under the Creative Commons License, too. Therefore, the units are
available for every interested learner, teacher and trainer under the following
link:
The following extracts of the SEEL online micro unit, document the process of
the self- learning phase:
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(1)Go on the link which provides you to the online micro unit and select
your prefered language:
(2)Select between the different topics of the learning unit as well as between
the three different forms:
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a. Only speech
b. Sound 1
c. Sound 2
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(3)Click on the first video and listen and whatch to the introduction of the
micro unit.
(4)After the introduction video the learner has the opportunity to select the
next video: Aims
After and during a video: the learner has the opportunity to skip, and
repeet a video as often he or she wants to see and hear it! Therefore, the
learner has to click on the buttons: Back or next
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(5)The next learning video is the main learning video for the learner. In this
unit he or she gets the main imput, lessons learned and content.
(6)The next video of the micro unit is one of the final videos which tests the
learning outcomes of the learners. The learner will be invited to answers
questions and to solve given tasks. It depends on the selected micro unit if
the learner should use paper and pen or just his memory.
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3 Situation of visual impaired in Europe
Short introduction!
3.1 Situation of visual impaired in Germany
Blindnes and visual impairment is part of our society. Society has to provide
support for blind and impaired people to integrate them into schools and
working life. The World Health Organization differentiate between for levels of
visual function and defines Blindness and visual impairment in the following
way:
„There are 4 levels of visual function, according to the International
Classification of Diseases -10 (Update and Revision 2006):
normal vision
moderate visual impairment
severe visual impairment
blindness.
Moderate visual impairment combined with severe visual impairment are
grouped under the term “low vision”: low vision taken together with blindness
represents all visual impairment.“ (WHO:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/)
All over the world there are more than 280 million people blind or visual
impaired. (http://www.who.int/blindness/GLOBALDATAFINALforweb.pdf?
ua=1)
In Germany there were overall about 350 thousand people blind or visual
impaired (see figure 1). But these classification number must been seen
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critically. Because there exist other estimations which are much higher. For
instance the club for blind and visual impaired explains that it is very hard to
estimate how many blind and visual impaired people lives in Germany.
Figure 1: Blindness in Germany
(Statistisches Bundesamt. n.d. Anzahl der Sehbehinderten* in Deutschland nach
Art der Behinderung im Jahr 2013. Statista. Zugriff am 10. September 2015.
Verfügbar unter
http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/247948/umfrage/anzahl-der-
sehbehinderten-in-deutschland-nach-schwere-der-behinderung/.(
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No matter what numbers are right it is important to integrate those people into
society. That means that every person should have access to education.
Furthermore in Germany each person should be educated in an individual way.
The Federal Republic of Germany has a differentiated network of consulting and
educational institutions that have the mission to teach blind and partially sighted
people in a suitable way. The institutions and schools should promote the skills
of competences in a way that allows them to work and participate in our society.
It could be differentiated between the particular methodology and didactics as
well as the disability specifically designed learning environment and
organization. On the one hand general school knowledge and professional
knowledge and skills are taught. On the other hand specific knowledge and
methods for blind and visually impaired students are taught. For instance:
the Braille,
the use of magnifying vision aids or
specific computer peripherals
In Germany blind and visual impaired could visit regular schools or school for
people with special needs. The actual trend is, that blind and visual impaired
pupils should visit the regular schools. In general there are two different options
for blind or visual impaired pupils.
The first option is education in the general school system. This is meant with
inclusive education. The reality is different. On the one hand there exist a single
inclusion in schools with a relatively small number of students who are blind or
visually impaired. But on the other hand there are also efforts to establish focus
schools. Such schools has a focus on the support of a group with a certain
disability. The reason for that is to become a expert in a specific field of
inclusion. In that case specialized schools could improve their specific
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knowledge and learning condition in long term. But there is a lot of critic against
such schools because it is against inclusion.
In public schools special education teachers are employed to support the other
teachers. In a class could be up to five pupils with a disability. The total number
of pupils in such a class should not be larger than 25 pupils. The “Förderbereich
Sehen” (support for pupils with blindness, visual impairment or with significant
disturbances of the central processing of visual impressions) will promote
currently blind pupils with teachers from schools for blind and visually impaired
pupils. The resources of these schools are (further) used in this way.
This care and support is called since the school year 2014/15 in NRW
"collaborative learning”. Classes have the same curricular and therefor the same
goals. If there are further special needs the pupils will educate in a specific way
with a special curriculum.
In North Rhine-Westphalia there exists twelve schools which are specialized on
pupils which are blind or visually impaired. These schools work together with
the general schools to foster the idea of inclusion.
The Curriculum for pupils with a visual impairment aims to promote the pupils
in specific areas:
perception promotion,
techniques, tools / computer,
orientation & mobility
every day skills,
social skills,
specific for writing and reading.
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Furthermore there should be a strong cooperation of all stakeholders (pupils,
parents, teachers, ophthalmologists / opticians, other institutions).
The second option is to go to a school with a focus on special need. There are in
North Rhine-Westphalia twelve schools with a focus on visual impairment. If
somebody want to visit such a school it requires the parents wish or/and the
assignment by the school authorities.
At these schools there are differences in the educational programs and areas of
work. There are primary and secondary school classes, so that pupils could
achieve simple or qualified secondary school levels. At some schools the pupils
could even achieve their A-levels.
In the special schools the subjects and teaching content according to the
elementary and secondary school policies and educational programs are issued.
The priorities are set at the schools.
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