Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 60(4)

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 6 tremendous amount of learner data that provide quantitative information that would otherwise be difficult to gather, even in a traditional classroom setting. These quantitative data also can be paired with qualitative data provided by students, enhancing the opportunity to review the MOOC's effectiveness. Initial Review of MOOC Participation by Completion Status At this time UEBOT-1 has been "live" online since June 2015. It is referred to as "UEBOT-1" because it is the first stage of a natural progression from a UEB update towards a full university braille course. UEBOT-2 will be announced at a later date and will involve a full 16-week online UEB training course. As of August 2015, 80 participants have completed the UEBOT-1 course and have earned a certificate endorsed by ACVREP for 10 continuing education credits, with the option to earn university credit. These participants have shed some early light on how professionals in the field of visual impairments engage with online content and braille. Ho, Reich, Nesterko, Seaton, Mullaney, Waldo, and Chuang (2014) report a mean completion rate of just over 5% for Harvard and MIT MOOCS offered by the non-profit course provider edX --while at present the completion rate for UEBOT-1 (80/126 = 47

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