1. PILOT TRAINING OF STUDENTS WITH MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
EPP BG-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD
PILOT TRAINING OF STUDENTS WITH MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
Scenario 3

2. Profiles of the people with musculoskeletal disorders
Approximately 10% of the population has a physical condition resulting in motor impairment.
Musculoskeletal disorder is associated with some behavioural characteristics: limited social skills, attentional deficits and depression.
Disabled students have long been subject to inadequate and unequal educational opportunities as schools and educational institutions have accessibility or instructional problems.
Nowadays accessibility solutions allow disabled students to access materials, communicate their ideas and work, and take active part in educational activities.

3. Pilot training of students with musculoskeletal disorders using the DIPSEIL e-learning platform
According to the needs and capabilities of the students with musculoskeletal disorders, educational courses are developed and adapted on the platform for electronic learning DIPSEIL.
The pilot training is implemented in University of Plovdiv within the courses in two masters programs: “Investment Management in Telecommunications” and “Telecommunication and information systems” in two semesters.

4. Pilot training of students with musculoskeletal disorders using the DIPSEIL e-learning platform
The master programs started on October, and finished on July, 2017.
The students did not attend the classes and used only the DIPSEIL system for making the tasks. They received help and assistance when needed by the teachers responsible for the courses in the laboratories of the University.

5. Trainees group characterists
The number of students with musculoskeletal disorders is 4.
The group’s age shows a mean of 25 years, where the youngest student is 23 years old, and the oldest, is 29.
Two of the students are women and 2 are men.
Three of the students are in the “Investment Management in Telecommunications” master program. One student is in “Telecommunication and information systems” master program.

6. The list of the subjects includes:
Results in achievement in “Telecommunication and Information Systems” master program
Number of enrolled students -seven. One of them is with musculoskeletal disorders.
The list of the subjects includes:
Information Systems
Industrial and Real Time Communications
Electronics for Information and Communication Technology
Satellite and Mobile Communications
Telecommunication Networks of Next Generation
Web Programming and Design
Microcontrollers Programming in Arduino environment
Global Information Systems
Each subject consists of eight tasks, scored by the teacher on a scale from 1 to10. The needed lowest score to pass the exam is 6,5.

7. Results in achievement in “Telecommunication and Information Systems” master program
Results of the student with musculoskeletal disorders (1 students)
Results of students without musculoskeletal disorders (6 students)

8. Results
The student with musculoskeletal disorders has obtained results from the tasks similar to the results of the rest of the students who made their tasks in class at Plovdiv University. This student has very good achievements in all master subjects. All the means of the scores obtained by this student in the 8 courses are over 8,25, on a scale from 1 to 10.
All the students from the “Telecommunication and Information Systems” master program graduated in July,

9. Subjects are taught in two semesters.The list includes:
Results in achievement in “Investment Management in Telecommunications” master program
Number of enrolled students -eight. Three of them are with musculoskeletal disorders.
Subjects are taught in two semesters.The list includes:
Introduction to Telecommunication Systems
Mediums, Components and Devices for Telecommunications
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Financing and Risk Capital
Innovative Marketing
Mobile Information Systems
Fibre Optic Communication Systems
Economy of Technical Change
Each subject consists of eight tasks, scored by the teacher on a scale from 1 to10. The needed lowest score to pass the exam is 6,5.

10. Results in achievement in “Investment Management in Telecommunications” master program
Results of students with musculoskeletal disorders (3 students)
Results of students without musculoskeletal disorders (5 students)

11. Results
The students with musculoskeletal disorders obtained results from the tasks similar to the results of the rest of the students who made their tasks in class at Plovdiv University. All the means of the scores obtained by these students in the courses are over 8,on the scale from 1 to 10.
All the students with musculoskeletal disorders from the “Investment Management in Telecommunications” master program graduated in July, 2017.

12. Conclusions
According the third scenario “Use of mobile technology to expand training opportunities of people with musculoskeletal disorders”, educational courses were developed and adapted on the platform for electronic learning DIPSEIL.
For the students with musculoskeletal disorders educational courses from two Master’s programes were adapted.
The students with musculoskeletal disorders have obtained results from the tasks similar to the results of the rest of the students who made their tasks in class at Plovdiv University. These students have high achievements in all masters’ subjects.