PPD: Access to Physics Interactive Video Tutor Project

CPB/WGBH国家无障碍媒体中心(NCAM)将与麻省理工学院(MIT)合作，使麻省理工学院高级教育服务中心(CAES)正在开发的一个互动多媒体物理网站模型可供盲人或聋人学生使用。物理互动视频辅导项目(Pivot)是一个多层次的教学和学习网络环境，围绕麻省理工学院教授沃尔特·勒文的物理课程建立，全国学习入门级物理的大学生和高中生都将使用这门课程。预计它将作为麻省理工学院其他基于互动视频的网站的模板。在NCAM正在进行的网络和多媒体无障碍研究的基础上，这一项目--Access to Pivot--将确定和满足聋人和盲人学生在用户界面、导航系统以及视频、文本、插图、图表和方程式的展示方面的需求。进入Pivot项目将使NCAM能够在整个网站开发过程中与CAES合作，以测试和解释当前的网络访问指导方针和技术。NCAM将研究解决方案，建立CAES提供接入解决方案的机构能力，记录实施过程，并为其他开发商开发和测试一套推荐做法。对实际问题的记录包括：需求评估、选择准入解决方案的决策标准、准入工具的范围和互操作性、相关培训以及生产挑战。对盲人和聋人用户的测试和评估将衡量结果的有效性。技术顾问将确保将新兴工具和能力整合到项目中。基于网络的教育顾问将为推荐的做法提供意见，并协助传播。项目成果将：o使盲人、视障、聋人或听力障碍的以科学为重点的高中生和大学生能够参与一个创新的、具有挑战性的基于网络的入门物理课程。O使麻省理工学院高级教育服务中心能够将通过该项目开发的技术能力制度化，以便将接入解决方案应用于一系列未来的教育产品。O为远程教育和教育多媒体的开发者、出版商和发行商提供推荐做法和网络多媒体接入设计原则的应用演示。从这个备受瞩目的真实世界生产模型开发的推荐实践将被广泛评估，理想情况下，还将被其他基于Web的课程开发人员效仿。

The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) will collaborate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to make a model interactive multimedia physics Web site in development at the MIT Center for Advanced Educational Services (CAES) accessible to students who are blind or deaf. The Physics Interactive Video Tutor Project (PIVOT) is a multi-layered teaching and learning Web environment built around MIT Professor Walter Lewin's physics course which will be used by college and high school students across the nation studying introductory-level physics. It is expected to serve as a template for additional MIT interactive video-based Web sites. Building upon NCAM's ongoing research into Web and multimedia accessibility, this project - Access to PIVOT - will identify and address the needs of deaf and blind students in the design of the user interface, the navigation systems, and the presentation of video, text, illustrations, graphs, tables and equations. The Access to PIVOT Project will allow NCAM to work with CAES throughout the development of the Web site to test and interpret current Web access guidelines and techniques. NCAM will research solutions, build CAES' institutional capability to provide access solutions, document the implementation process, and develop and test a set of recommended practices for other developers. Documentation of practical issues include: needs assessment, decision criteria for selecting access solutions, range and interoperability of access tools and related training as well as production challenges. Testing and evaluation with blind and deaf users will gauge the effectiveness of results. Technical advisors will ensure that emerging tools and capabilities are integrated into the Project. Web-based-education advisors will provide input into recommended practices and assist in dissemination. Project results will: o Enable science-focused high school and college students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf or hard-of-hearing to participate in an innovative and challenging Web-based introductory physics curriculum. o Enable the MIT Center for Advanced Educational Services to institutionalize the technical capabilities developed through this project to apply access solutions to a range of future educational products. o Provide developers, publishers, and distributors of distance-learning and educational multimedia with recommended practices and an applied demonstration of access-design principles for network-delivered multimedia. Recommended practices developed from this high-profile, real-world production model will be widely evaluated and, ideally, emulated by other Web-based curriculum developers.