Personalized Adaptive Networked Learning for Disabled Students & Social Networking for the Inclusion of students – The Multimedu tool

Abstract

The Multimedia Education tool (Multimedu tool) is a web-based integrated system that “accumulates” information, in any form: video, audio, text, picture, documents. It is based on the contribution of academic collaborative networked communities, and makes the multimedia material accessible and available to everyone through a Terms Dictionary and a Multimedia Library. It also supports social networking. The Multimedu system facilitates personalized communication and supports learning and inclusion of disabled students in Higher Education. Services based on the Multimedu system can be offered to the disabled and other students in the mainstream class, in the parallel “assistive” classes, and in the labs. Distance learning is supported in synchronous mode. Asynchronous and online services are offered by the integrated multilingual multimedia dictionary of terms.