OAEDUMDUM – ferramenta de autoria de objetos de aprendizagem para a educação musical inclusiva: preocupando-se com princípios de acessibilidade e de usabilidade

Abstract

The teaching of music in Primary Education should be inclusive. Although there are contributions from Computing area, there is a commitment to the use of digital technologies by teachers with disabilities. Thus, we can use Learning Objects (LO) -digital resources used in the educational context that can be catalogued in online repositories for reuse -as a way to reduce the difficulty of identifying and reusing teaching materials. To mitigate this problem, an accessible LO repository prototype, called EduMPampa, in the context of the research project "Inclusive Music Education Mediated by Accessible Digital Technologies" was created. With this, the need for accessible LO arises for the Inclusive Musical Education to be fulfilled. Through a state-of-the-art review of LO’s authoring tools, it has been noted that there is no specific tool on the context of Music Education, so this study has as general objective to develop a tool for the production of Learning Objects to be made available in repositories and reused in the context of Inclusive Music Education, so that the tool and the generated objects are accessible and usable. For that, a model of development process that values the active participation of the user in a systematic way, by integrating practices and techniques of the Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction areas, was designed. We have as results an LO authoring tool for the context of Inclusive Musical Education so that the tool itself and the objects generated meet the principles of usability and accessibility recommendations, the process mentioned above, the analysis of the state-of-the-art LO authoring tools, with accessibility and usability issues being verified in the tool itself and in the products generated by the tool. For future work, we purpose to make the LO generated with the tool available at EduMPampa repository, wide tool exposure, its use follow-up and its evolution.