Book Title: Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers

Authors: Keith Heggart; Mais Fatayer; Camille Dickson-Deane; Puvaneswari P Arumugam; Katrina Thorpe; Shaun Bell; Susan Page; John Vulic; Nhung Nguyen; Katie Duncan; Rhiannon Hall; and Bruna Contro Pretero

Book Description: 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.

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Book Description

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.

Authors

Keith Heggart; Mais Fatayer; Camille Dickson-Deane; Puvaneswari P Arumugam; Katrina Thorpe; Shaun Bell; Susan Page; John Vulic; Nhung Nguyen; Katie Duncan; Rhiannon Hall; and Bruna Contro Pretero

Subject

Educational strategies and policy: inclusion

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Title
Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers
Authors
Keith Heggart; Mais Fatayer; Camille Dickson-Deane; Puvaneswari P Arumugam; Katrina Thorpe; Shaun Bell; Susan Page; John Vulic; Nhung Nguyen; Katie Duncan; Rhiannon Hall; and Bruna Contro Pretero
Editors
Keith Heggart and Mais Fatayer
Reviewers
Henk Huijser and Leanne Ngo
License

This book was published by UTS ePress at the University of Technology Sydney via the Council of Australian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective. The online version is available at https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/designing-learning-experiences.

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Heggart, K., Fatayer, M., Dickson-Deane, C., Arumugam, P.P., Thorpe, K., Page, S. Bell, S, Vulic, J., Nguyen, N., Duncan, K., Hall, R., & Pretero, B.C., (2024). Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers. UTS ePress. https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/designing-learning-experiences.

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Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers by Keith Heggart, Mais Fatayer, Puvaneswari P. Arumugam, Katrina Thorpe, Susan Page, Shaun Bell, John Vulic and Katie Duncan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 Licence.

Cover (illustration) by UTS ePress is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Primary Subject
Educational strategies and policy: inclusion
Additional Subject(s)
Higher education, tertiary education, Teaching of students with different educational needs
Institutions
Australian National University, University of Technology Sydney, Western Sydney University, Deakin University, Auckland University of Technology
Publisher
UTS ePress
Publication Date
July 26, 2024