Low cost literacy e-learning tool

Illiteracy is still a black hole in modern-day society, with around 960 million people all over the world unable to read or write. In advanced societies, illiteracy is closely linked to social exclusion, to shame, social immobility and poverty. The poverty cycle can be broken and by literacy learning at early ages but also at adult age. One more chance to break this poverty cycle is the realization of a literacy e-learning tool to assist literacy teaching and learning. In this way, this paper presents an intelligent literacy tool (iLIT) which consists of an embedded system running dedicated literacy software. The application was developed for Romanian language and there are also provided the necessary building blocks and interfaces to help other developers extend the platform for their own language and culture