Virtual learning system (Miqra'ah) for Quran recitations targeting blind, illiterate and manualdisabled students
Samir A. Elsagheer Mohamed, Mohamed Tahar Ben Othman, Allam Shehata · Advances in Information Technology · 2013
Quran memorization and learning are among the best ways of worship that close to Almighty God because of their numerous benefits as stated in the Quran and Sunnah. We have developed a virtual learning system (Electronic Miqra'ah). Scientists can supervise remotely the registered students. Students, from different ages, can register from anywhere in the world given that they have Internet connection. Students can interact with the scientist in real time so that they can help them memorize (Tahfeez), guide them for error correction, and give them lectures or lessons through virtual learning rooms. The targeted groups of users can be non-blind people, blind people, manual-disabled people and illiterate people. We have developed this system such that it takes the commands via voice in addition to the normal inputs like mouse and keyboard. Users can dictate the commands to the system orally and the system recognizes the spoken phrases and execute them. The system administrators create several virtual learning rooms and register the licensed scientists. Administrators prepare a daily schedule for each room. Students can register to any of these rooms by pronouncing its name. Each student is allocated a portion of time where he/she can interact directly by voice with the scientist. Other students can listen to the current student's recitation and the error corrections, guidance or lessons from the scientists.