Usage of Online Education in the Field of Mathematics for Hearing Impaired and Deaf Students

Abstract

The article is devoted to problems of usage of online education in the inclusive education process in BMSTU. Russian and foreign experience in the field of mass open online courses in the system of higher education is briefly described. Information on foreign platform Coursera, Russian online courses construction platform Stepik and the National Open Education platform is given. The experience of Ural Federal University in development of two first online courses for people with disabilities is shown. The article describes educational features and specific needs of students with impaired hearing in the system of higher education on the base of BMSTU’s years-long experience in work with groups of students of that type. The model of inclusive higher education in Bauman university is briefly described and explained. Main stages of development and approbation of online course on elementary mathematics knowledge actualization for hearing-impaired and deaf students on the first year of education in BMSTU are revealed. Practical recommendations for online courses’ authors on materials selection, preparation, video recording and other stages of online course creation are given. Prospects of the developed course usage and plans for further activities of the university in that field are shown.