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 5 Discussion boards are available where students can both seek and provide help in understanding the UEB rules. The course is monitored by instructors experienced in braille who address both technical and code related questions, if other participants are not able to do so. The flexibility of monthly offerings allows students to repeat or exit the course without high-stakes consequences, and also honors the time constraints of busy professionals in a demanding field. The enrollment limits and repeated offerings also mean that more than 8,000 participants can be trained over the life of the project. These details make UEBOT-1 a logical step in instructional methods, but the critical questions of effectiveness and quality have not yet been answered. University instruction over the last two decades has seen the implementation of content management systems (CMS) and learning management systems (LMS) that have attempted to relieve some of the administrative burdens of teaching (Agarwal, 2013). These systems have been received with mixed reactions but over time the use of these systems has become a reality at most institutions (see www.gse.upenn.edu/pressroom/press-releases/2013/12). They offer a 46

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