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Promoting Inclusive Open Education: A Holistic Approach Towards a Novel Accessible OER Recommender System

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2020)

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Abstract

OER can pave the way to reach equitable and inclusive access to education for all. However, unleashing its full potential is disrupted due to the disregard of the special needs and learning characteristics of certain user groups such as people with disabilities by the mechanisms delivering OER. A potential solution lies within helping each final user to find the “best” OER that embraces his/her individual needs and specific characteristics. Recommendation accomplishes that as it could offer a significant support assisting learners with disabilities in recognizing and retrieving the most relevant accessible OER within the system delivering the educational content. This paper lays the foundation to an approach for building an accessible OER recommender system that delivers, to online learners, the most relevant accessible OER responsive to their needs, abilities, and disabilities, based on their contextual and usage data.

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  1. Technologies of Information and Communication Lab, Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Tunis, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

    Hejer Ben Brahim & Mohamed Koutheair Khribi

  2. ICT Department, ALECSO, Ave Mohamed Ali Akid, Centre Urbain Nord, Cité El Khadhra, PO Box: 1003, Tunis, Tunisia

    Mohamed Jemni

  3. Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Ahmed Tlili

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Brahim, H.B., Khribi, M.K., Jemni, M., Tlili, A. (2020). Promoting Inclusive Open Education: A Holistic Approach Towards a Novel Accessible OER Recommender System. In: Miesenberger, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Peňáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12377. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58805-2_20

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