Calicut University launches course in sign language for hearing-impaired
The course titled 'Forms of business organisation' is available on the Swayam portal, a platform initiated by the Government of India that facilitates hosting different courses.Â
Calicut University's Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC) has launched 'MOOC' (Massive Open Online Course). The course has been designed fully in sign language for hearing-impaired people.Â
The MOOC also has a voice-over version. The course titled 'Forms of business organisation' is available on the Swayam portal, a platform initiated by the Government of India that facilitates hosting different courses. Talking about the new course, EMMRC director Damodar Prasad said a university is offering a massive open online course for the hearing impaired in sign language for the first time in the country.
"Currently, Calicut University is hosting the most number of massive open online courses in the country, 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 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," said Damodar.Â
The course is six weeks long. The online course has been 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 enrollment for the course began on July 5 and will continue till August 31. All those students who are from commerce, management streams and are business aspirants can join the course.
Earlier, the University of Calicut launched its admission portal for undergraduate, postgraduate and other courses, including PhD programmes. Candidates interested in Calicut University Admissions 2021Â may log in to https://admission.uoc.ac.in and get the details regarding the courses they seek admission in.Â
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