Instructional Design Portfolio

Faculty member:
Nahed Ghoneim

Prototype of a CD-Rom learning application to teach English to deaf students in Egypt.

The Learning English CD-ROM project was developed in collaboration with Nahed Ghoneim, a Fullbright Fellowship recipient,under the advisement of Razik Taher of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy of the Graduate School of Education. Her goal was to design a prototype of a program that used technology to entice students to want to learn.

The project was focused on teaching deaf children from Egypt how to use English as a second language. In her opinion the illustrations, animations and video clips of the corresponding sign language added a multimodal aspect to the learning process. Nahed used the prototype computer program in a study with students back in her homeland of Egypt. Her research included assessing if there is any difference in learning outcomes between a group of students who have access to the program and a control group of students who do not use the computer program in their learning.