1 PEN-International Deafness Workshops Planning Meeting March 27, 2002

2 Description Partnership: to improve education and employment opportunities for 6 million deaf and hard- of-hearing people around the world to enhance the capabilities of international universities to provide these opportunities

3 Overall Goals Increase application of informational and instructional technology to teaching/learning Improve teaching, learning, curriculum development and instructional development Expand career education opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing people Increase access for the deaf to technology and employment in information technology

4 Objectives Primary:  Initiate and foster a network of educational institutions that provide postsecondary education for students who are deaf and hard- of-hearing  Encourage the use of innovative technologies in this education, through supporting acquisition of such technologies as well as faculty training and development

5 Objectives Enabling: 1. Construct and test infrastructure for this proposed international postsecondary educational network  Tianjin Technical College for the Deaf of Tianjin University of Technology (China)  Moscow State Technical University Program for the Deaf (Russia)  Tsukuba College of Technology (Japan) 2. Expand international network to include other programs in developed and developing nations (focus in Pacific Basin)

6 Objectives Long-term: Influence attitudes, practices, and policies in the information technology industry so that people who are deaf are not blocked from access to technology or employment within the information technology industry

7 Motivation: Eliminate Limitation Present system of education does not allow the many deaf people in the world to realize their potential Little action taken to correct this observed lack of opportunity in the past Possibility for interaction of educational institutions exists, providing an improvement in the quality of education through shared information

8 Implementation Current relationships developed into an international network Key point: Collaboration Assessment of other prospective participant countries

9 Tianjin Technical College for the Deaf (TUT) First international partner with PEN-International

10 TUT Faculty Development Needs assessment  Networking and ISDN skills  Teaching and learning strategies for deaf education  WWW site design to support classroom instruction

11 TUT Faculty Training Preliminary Training in USA  Instructional Technology and Education of the Deaf, Supporting Learners, K—College (interpreters provided)  7 TUT faculty members to NTID in June 2001  Symposium provided a survey of best practices and procedures in use of educational technology with deaf students (also, special seminars specifically for the TUT faculty)

12 TUT Faculty Training Training at TUT  Follow-up training with individuals from NTID focusing on lab networking and using the WWW to support instruction in the lab, September 2001  Audiology seminars developed by Dean Ohnuma of Tsukuba College of Technology (TCT), August 2001 Offered to both TUT faculty as well as faculty from other schools for the deaf in Tianjin

13 TUT Multimedia Computer Lab Located in main building of TUT “Smart classroom” 18 individual PC computers and a teacher workstation Arrangement allows for easy sign language and spoken communication Opened 3 October 2001 Used by faculty in diverse fields

14 TUT Future plans During year two:  Another group of TUT faculty will travel to NTID for online and distance education training  10 TUT students will visit NTID and TCT  ISDN videoconferencing system will be installed at TUT  TUT will host a regional conference in China for educators of the deaf to begin sharing the knowledge and skills gathered through partnership with PEN-International