Under the coordination of Adérito F. Marcos, from the Universidade Aberta, the Tele-Média-Arte project is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, within the scope of the ‘Young Generations Qualification Programme – Innovative Projects in the Field of Education’, in partnership with CIAC (Centre for Research in Arts and Communication), INESC-TEC (Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science), CSIG (Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics) and APEC (Association for the Promotion of Teaching of the Blind ). CIAC researchers Ângela Saldanha, Elizabeth Carvalho, José Bidarra and Mirian Tavares are part of this project.
The Tele-Média-Arte project, which lasts one year, is scheduled to come to an end in December 2017. Its primary aim is to promote the improvement of online distance learning and teaching in the arts, applied in the teaching of two test scenarios: the PhD in digital media arts and the lifelong learning course “The experience of diversity”. To this end, multimodal telepresence facilities are explored, including varied visual, auditory and sensory channels and rich forms of sign/body interaction. A telepresence system will then be developed, to be set up in the Palácio Ceia, home of the Universidade Aberta, from which mixed-regime methodologies of teaching the arts – face-to-face and online distance – will be developed and tested, designed to be inclusive for blind and partially sighted learners.
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