Title: ViPi
Type of the resource: Project
Funded by: Life Long Learning Programme, European Commission
Authors: Nottingham Trent University, UK/PhoenixKM, Belgium/ Steficon, Greece/Hypertech, Greece/Hiteco, Lithuania/ EuroCy Innovations Ltd, Cyprus
Type of disability: ALL TYPES
Target education level: Secondary education
Language(s): Dutch
English
Greek
Lithuanian
IPR: Yes
OER: Yes
Overall objectives of the inclusive learning resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What are the overall broader objectives to which the action will contribute?)
A majority of Europe’s people with disabilities are unemployed (ANED figures state over 60%). There are many reasons for this. Many people with disabilities have advanced skills but suffer significant barriers to employment. This is an important issue which must be addressed. For others, skill acquisition must be facilitated. ViPi aims to support and facilitate the acquisition of basic ICT skills for those people with disabilities who lack them.
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the key indicators related to the overall objectives?)
ViPi aims to provide a “one-stop-shop” interactive portal & learning environment for ICT skills by delivering:
a comprehensive multilingual portal, with;
an embedded multilingual social community (for VET centres, people with disabilities, ICT training centres, etc.), using the latest social media, facilitating interactive information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration, with access to all;
an accessible (WCAG 2.0) multilingual Web 2.0 enabled online learning environment for ICT for people with disabilities and their trainers, with an interactive and extensive repository of interoperable SCORM compliant learning objects (LOs) that focus on basic ICT literacy to support the acquisition of core skills by people with disabilities, in order to facilitate their entry into or sustain their employment in, the regular labour market; LOs will be enriched with intuitive mobile and internet/PC based educational/serious games;
The final outcome will be an entire set of applications and services that will be streamlined via a blended educational and pedagogical framework, making full usage of the interaction possibilities offered by web 2.0, and localised, tested, piloted and subsequently fine-tuned with GR, BE, LT, UK and CY end-user communities.
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information for these indicators?)
ViPi aims at creating accessible and flexible basic ICT skills training, designed to meet the specific needs of people with disabilities, and their trainers.
Risks and Challenges:
Specific purpose of the inclusive learning resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What specific objective is the resource intended to achieve to contribute to the overall objectives?)
Main barrier is the lack of specific training support or material ViPi project envisages fulfilling the gap by:
making available accessible and flexible training,
designed to be adopted directly by PwD,
and through centres providing special education and vocational training.
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (Which indicators clearly show that the objective of the actions/resource has been achieved?)
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information that exist or can be collected? What are the methods required to get this information?)
Risks and Challenges: (Which factors and conditions outside the user's responsibility are necessary to achieve that objective? (external conditions)) Which risks should be taken into consideration?
Expected results on implementation of the resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (The results are the outputs envisaged to upscale. What are the expected results?)
State of the art analysis on ICT skills LOs for people
with disabilities;
Comparative analysis of findings in UK, LT, GR & CY;
A culturally adapted curriculum on ICT skills, tailored to individual user’s needs;
Multilingual training materials in alternative formats;
Trainer handbook;
Fully accessible online ViPi platform;
Serious games for desktop and mobile usage;
Local training workshops.
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the indicators to measure whether and to what extent the action/resource achieves the expected results?)
Sources and means of verification: (What are the available sources of information for these indicators?)
Risks and Challenges: (What external conditions must be met to obtain the expected results on schedule?)
Activities
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What are the key activities to be carried out and in what sequence in order to reach the expected results?)
A “one-stop-shop” interactive portal & learning environment (online and via Android mobile phone) that delivers:
a multilingual platform (English, Dutch, Greek, Lithuanian) with:
an embedded social community (for VET centres, PwD, ICT training centres, etc.);
accessible (WCAG 2.0) online ICT for learning environment for PwD, their trainers;
with an interactive and vast repository of interoperable SCORM compliant learning objects supported by Web 2.0 social services, and Web 3.0 for semantically enriched content
Bring together key stakeholders and gatekeepers (VET, target groups, umbrella organizations)
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the means required to implement these activities, e.g. personnel, equipment, training, studies, supplies, operational facilities, etc.)
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information about action progress?)
Risks and Challenges: (What pre-conditions are required before the use of the resource starts? What conditions outside the user's direct control have to be met for the implementation of the planned activities?)
Attachment:
URL: http://www.vipi-project.eu/
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