Partnering Outside the Box: Digital and Artificial Intelligence Integrated Tools to Support Higher Education Students with Dyslexia (2020-1-IT02-KA203-080006)
It is well known as students with dyslexia encounter several difficulties during their university career, leading to a greater rate of drops out with respect other kinds of students.
Nowadays, tools for dyslexic students are mainly focused on primary and secondary school; conversely no standard methodologies are proposed for Higher Education. Starting from the attitude to visual thinking and creativity of dyslexics and their evidence neurodiversity, VRAILEXIA will develop learning tools and services for University dyslexic students to assure equal access and opportunity of success during their academic career and their lifelong learning experience.
VRAILEXIA through the use of virtual reality and artificial intelligence will implement an e-learning adaptive digital platform (BESPECIAL) for supporting students with dyslexia. As a long-term objective VRAILEXIA will propose a sustainable pattern for HEIs that creates the possibility for everyone to use his/her own strengths counteracting his/her weakness.
Moreover, VRAILEXIA wishes to emerge the mastery of thinking out of the box: exploiting the ability to explore creative and unusual ideas that are not limited or controlled by rules or tradition.
Objetivos generales
VRAILEXIA general objective is based on the motto “Dyslexic think differently: it’s time to change in perception and act in network. Through this objective, VRAILEXIA aims at developing useful contents, both services and tools, to overlap dyslexic’s main difficulties during learning process in HE. The perspective is to let that Universities can develop strategies for inclusion for fostering all students to discover and point on one’s strengths and values. From this reason, it is clear how the potentiality of the project has to be carried out according to a transnational approach in order to obtain common and shared services and tools. Among these services and tools, VRAILEXIA will lead to the realization of: (i) digital platform for supporting dyslexic students based on AI; (II) VR tests for dyslexia profile assessment and platform use effects on physiological aspects; (iii) online tools repository for teaching and learning; (iv) training path for trainers to increase the dyslexia awareness; and, (v) memorandum of understanding for MoU for clustering the actors/stakeholders to assess a European Network to foster common strategies of inclusion within HE. An important objective of the project is to strengthen the relations between the trainings institutions, project members, and the professionals. Each partner is expected to work in close relation with professionals for the implementation of tool and trainings, the aim being that these relations do not end with the project but the creation of Network is the starting point of future plans.
Papel de la Universidad de Córdoba
UCO taking advantages from the skills in development of virtual reality scenarios, will cooperate both with psychologists from UNIPG and experts in Artificial Intelligence coming from the two Universities of France. It is the Leader of WP1: “IN THE BOX – VR Tests for dyslexia assessment through virtual reality”. This WP aims at creating specific assessment tests in VR and to simulate the point of view of dyslexic students to their teachers.
Investigador principal: G. Calabrò || Sara Pinzi (UCO)
E-mail: Giuseppe.calabro@unitus.it || sara.pinzi@uco.es
Página web del proyecto: https://vrailexia.eu/