edci335–Blog Post 3: Inclusive Design

Considering the inclusive design, I mainly want to talke about 2 questions:

1.How will your interactive learning resource specifically ensure that the needs of all learners can be met?

2.Consider the learning environment for your current design. What potential barriers can be reduced or eliminated to provide more pathways for learner success?

What is inclusive design?

“Inclusive design considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age, and other forms of human difference. It empowers designers to create products whose experiences serve as many people as possible (Justin, 2021)”

Why is inclusive design important?

Inclusive design takes as much into account the needs and abilities of most people as possible, which requires us to learn from their behaviour and adaptability, thus fostering compassion while acknowledging our own prejudices. It also prompts faculty to examine student relationships to the learning environment, and while the purpose of accessibility is to minimize exclusion, inclusive design is beyond this scope. Inclusive design develops solutions to improve the goal of efficient learning, thus achieving the goal of managing and improving the ability of all students.

Research questions

1.How will your interactive learning resource specifically ensure that the needs of all learners can be met?

Our group adopts the interactive learning method, and everyone can participate in the group design, share resources, and discuss problems.

2. Consider the learning environment for your current design. What potential barriers can be reduced or eliminated to provide more pathways for learner success?

Our current learning environment is about online learning. In the traditional learning environment, students can communicate face to face, professors write on the blackboard, and all students complete interactive learning in class. The current online learning environment allows students to participate in the same class around the world, and when and where we visit the class is unrestricted. If the student is off, the student can visit the link again and watch the recorded video. This way helps us to timely obtain teaching information and improve our abilities.

Online learning can integrate a variety of resources. For example, professors can put videos, text, links and other materials in the same subject, and students can access the materials by themselves. This approach helpes me get more information about the course, as well as less geographical and time constraints. Even if I am in China, I can study. This meets my learning needs. At the same time, I can also form a positive interaction with other students through online learning, especially when completing the group tasks, we can communicate in time, we can visit the email, visit zoom and so on. In short, inclusive instructional design and online learning experience help us achieve better grades and classroom performance, which is of great significance for our future development.

Reference

Justin Morales (2021). What is Inclusive Design? Principles and Examples. Retrieved from: https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/principles/design-systems/what-is-inclusive-design-principles-and-examples/