Catalogue

The development and implementation of inclusive and diverse learning experiences is a vital consideration for educators in higher education. Increasingly, learning designers play a significant role in this process. This textbook offers postgraduate students a comprehensive guide to designing learning experiences that are accessible, equitable, and inclusive. It provides advice, principles, and practical strategies to help learning designers create a learning environment that recognizes and celebrates diversity while promoting equitable learning outcomes. Through detailed accounts of theory and practice, it will cover the following topics: diversity and inclusion, role of learning designers, accessibility, equity, cultural responsiveness, open pedagogy, Indigenous-led learning design and designing with students.

Incorporating First Nations knowledges into the curriculum is a challenge for those new to the area but it is a rewarding exercise. This book is to support trainers, academics and professionals who wish to investigate ways of integrating and assessing First Nations’ knowledges through their work.

This book follows on from the work by Kutay, C., Leigh, E., Prpic, K., Ormond-Parker, L (Eds) (2022). Indigenous Engineering for an Enduring Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8759-5 to provide more of a focus on authentic assessment of Indigenous Knowledges in the Engineering curricula in Australia.

We include simulations, reflections, exercises and general material related to disciplines, skills and engineering approaches. This book is an ever expanding repository and we hope others working in this area will share their ideas to be credited in this book.

To request to have further material as chapters or paragraphs incorporated into this book email Dr Cat Kutay at Charles Darwin University.