A Blockchain Microsites-Based Ecosystem for Learning and Inclusion

• Valéria Farinazzo Martins Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM)
• Solomon Sunday Oyelere University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
• Łukasz Tomczyk Pedagogical University of Cracow (PUC)
• Gabriel Barros University of Azuay (UA)
• Özgür Yaşar Akyar Hacettepe University (HU)
• Maria Amelia Eliseo Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM)
• Cibelle Albuquerque de La Higuera Amato Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM)
• Ismar Frango Silveira Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cbie.sbie.2019.229

Resumo

Several initiatives have made available open educational resources, offered through educational platforms, aiming to achieve a broader audience, thus having the opportunity of democratizing knowledge. However, accessibility aspects in these resources still have many gaps. One is how to help teachers to prepare curricular contents available to all students, regardless of their limitations and disabilities. In this sense, this paper presents a digital ecosystem architecture, called SELI, that is being developed by a group of eleven European and Latin American countries. This ecosystem aims to provide an accessible learning environment and its contents, besides proper authoring tools based on recent technologies such as Blockchain, microsites, and universal accessibility guidelines.

Palavras-chave: Blockchain, Microsites, Inclusion, Learning, Educational Technologies

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