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My Journey Towards Accessible and Inclusive Design: Insights and Growth

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< My Journey Towards Accessible and Inclusive Design: Insights and Growth At the start of my journey in learning design, I viewed accessibility and inclusive design through a relatively narrow lens. I knew that the goal was to ensure that learning materials were available to everyone, regardless of their abilities, but my understanding of how to implement these principles was limited. I primarily thought that accessibility meant ensuring that students with learning differences had alternative ways to interact with learning content, like providing audio versions of text or offering subtitles for video content. However, as I’ve progressed through this course, my understanding of accessibility and inclusive design has grown significantly. I now see it as a comprehensive framework that is not just about providing alternatives, but about designing from the ground up with all learners in mind. Accessibility and inclusion are not afterthoughts or add-ons; they should be woven into the v...
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Learning in 2035

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Education and the ways in which we learn are constantly evolving. The most recent pandemic had a tremendous impact on the speed at which online and blended learning evolved. Now, we are seeing more and more students shift to online or blended learning for a variety of reasons. It has opened the door for those needing to work, playing competitive sports, facing medical procedures and even those deployed in the military, to continue to further their education. One area that I feel will greatly benefit from advances in mobile technology and artificial intelligence is the ability to diversify the way we teach to meet the needs of the learner. There are people who can play a video game and remember complex strategies to complete the task in game who are struggling in the classroom with simple math processes. I can see the future of learning being able to mesh with and incorporate gaming tasks to support the learning and understanding of a variety of subjects for those who do not do well in ...
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The Importance of a Needs Assessment

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There are many differing factors that can contribute to dissatisfaction among consumers. When looking into ways to solve this dissatisfaction it is important to take a step back and evaluate all of the areas that consumers interact. Then you need to look for what is working well and what isn’t working well. Identifying these factors provides important information that will translate into a needs assessment. Supporting the ability of the company and learning design team to cooperatively identify key areas where improvement needs to happen. In regards to the learning scenario, CrowTech Systems appears to have areas of concern outside of their identified communication concerns. There are also a variety of technical issues. These include outdated software, a system lag during peak service times, and frequent disruptions due to system outages and crashes. There was also a concern among employees that the customer service department is understaffed, leading to some employees juggling tasks t...
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