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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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