Title
Inclusive Education: Implementation of a Mobile Application for Blind Students
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades Lima
Publisher(s)
Science and Information Organization
Abstract
Currently, the world is going through an era of changes in the education sector, but most Latin American countries are lagging, especially Peru, which does not have the technological tools that allow it to advance to an adequate level of inclusion of disabled students, especially blind students who are 60% of students who drop out of school for lack of education that have be suitable for their need. Consequently, the present research work is originated which aims to develop a mobile application oriented to the benefit of inclusive education of blind students. Therefore, the agile scrum methodology was used for the development of this project, executed in 5 phases, the requirements identified for the development of the mobile application were obtained through a questionnaire to 25 parents of visually impaired students, allowing the development of a mobile application that meets quality of inclusive education that can be applied in the education sector. Finally, as a result of the research work, another satisfaction survey was conducted with 50 parents where the application was evaluated, obtaining 90% of acceptance and satisfaction.
Start page
785
End page
795
Volume
12
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la educación
Ingeniería, Tecnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85121260127
Source
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
ISSN of the container
2158107X
Sponsor(s)
This research work was supported by the Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades with its research institute. We also thank Dr. Sotomayor Beltran for his suggestions and recommendations in this research work.
Sources of information:
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