By Express News Service
KOZHIKODE: The Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC) of Calicut University has launched ‘MOOC’ (huge open on-line course) designed totally in signal language for hearing-impaired individuals.
The course additionally has a voice-over model. The course titled ‘Forms of enterprise organisation’ is out there on the Swayam portal, a platform initiated by the Government of India that facilitates internet hosting completely different programs.
EMMRC director Damodar Prasad stated a college is providing an enormous open on-line course for the listening to impaired in signal language for the primary time within the nation. “Currently, Calicut varsity is internet hosting essentially the most variety of huge open on-line programs within the nation, which is 36.
“However, almost all of the courses offered online are making use of the spoken language as the medium of instruction and this dissuades the hearing-impaired people from enrolling. People with hearing ailments follow only visual and sign language, which is rarely available online. As the National Education Policy (NEP) emphasises developing study tools for specially-abled students, we decided to develop courses in sign language,” stated Damodar.
The course period is six weeks. The on-line course is developed by Dr Bhavana U B, head of the Department of Commerce, National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH), Thiruvananthapuram, and produced by Sajith Kumar Koyikkal. The enrolment for the course began on July 5 and can proceed until August 31. Students from commerce and administration streams and enterprise aspirants can be part of.
