Book Title: Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers
Edited by Keith Heggart and Mais Fatayer
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. NOTE: this open textbook will have limited availability in 2026 from the OER Collective. For ongoing access, please visit the UTS ePress web site https://doi.org/10.5130/aal.
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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.
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Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers Copyright © 2024 by the Authors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Educational strategies and policy: inclusion
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Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers Copyright © 2024 by the Authors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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 published version is also available on the UTS ePress web site https://doi.org/10.5130/aal.
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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://doi.org/10.5130/aal
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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.
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