Research retreats are elements of scientific graduate training programs. Although expected to provide strong educational value, some students are reluctant to attend. Here, we identify participation ...barriers and provide guidelines for retreat design that minimize obstacles and establish an inclusive environment to improve attendance and enrichment for all attendees.
Research retreats are elements of scientific graduate training programs. Although expected to provide strong educational value, some students are reluctant to attend. Here, we identify participation barriers and provide guidelines for retreat design that minimize obstacles and establish an inclusive environment to improve attendance and enrichment for all attendees.
As online learners are increasingly diverse, making online learning more inclusive becomes an urgent need. Universal design has been perceived as a viable framework to reach the widest possible range ...of learners. However, applying universal design to online education has been a challenge to instructors due to different barriers. It is also unclear what evidence-based strategies can be infused into online education. In this systematic review, we selected and analyzed relevant studies and synthesized their designs and findings to explore the trends, strategies, impacts, challenges, and instructors' and students' attitudes toward applying universal design in online environments. We discuss implications for research and practice.
Riferendosi all'Agenda 2030 il contributo presenta la sperimentazione applicata al comune di Udine, centro italiano di media dimensione, in occasione della redazione del PEBA e che individua negli ...itinerari urbani l'ambito di approfondimento; con la necessita di adottare gli strumenti normativi vigenti, attualizzandoli, l'avvio del processo di redazione diviene per l'amministrazione, con il supporto dell'Universita, l'occasione strategica di conoscenza e di aspettativa del contesto con conseguente definizione dei rapporti tra cittadini e habitat urbano. Su tali premesse si colloca la scelta del comune di Udine2 di intervenire utilizzando gli strumenti tecnici vigenti, attualizzandoli rispetto ai paradigmi dell'UD (Universal Design)3 e innovandoli nello specifico dei processi di conoscenza della comunita e di attuazione degli interventi in un contesto integrato di pianificazione urbana. L'accessibilita ambientale e elemento sostenibile perché garante della fruizione dello spazio a giustificazione della sua stessa essenza; si delinea cosi una visione delle prestazioni sostenibili che contemplano anche l'UD per dare una risposta inclusiva con un approccio sistemico alla risoluzione degli elementi e con un attento e specializzato processo esigenziale / prestazionale per il soddisfacimento dei bisogni (Baratta et al., 2019; Capolongo et al., 2020; DfA Europe, 2004). Il Caso di Studio: metodologia Rivolgendosi a chi deve affrontare quotidianamente lo spazio pubblico da un punto di vista progettuale, attuativo e gestionale e condividendo i progressi con gli utenti, l'approccio della sperimentazione integra nel processo di ricerca stesso le variabili sociali, ambientali e altre parti interessate quali soggetti decisori tecnici e politici10.
Learning that "career" was not a definite sign in Irish Sign Language (ISL) and that "Career Guidance" was poorly understood by the Deaf community prompted a systematic literature review (SLR). An ...uncomfortable truth relating to Career Guidance emerged - "Inclusion" is not where we presume it to be at.
This paper presents the results of the SLR and shares how the answers from a thematic analysis can - through a Universal Design (UD), and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (Rose & Meyer, 2002) lens - guide developments for inclusive Career Guidance.
This paper shares the story of "d/Deaf guidance" in the literature; the tensions between theory and practice in relation to inclusion (Quirke, 2022), and the themes identified from the SLR - themes the Deaf community believe are a Deaf gain.
Universal Design for Learning is a pedagogical approach that aims ‘to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn’ (CAST website, ...n.d.). Originating in the context of K12 education in the United States, the core principles involve the provision of multiple means of representation, engagement, and action/expression. Despite high instructor satisfaction with UDL, evidence of effectiveness for students’ learning is insufficient. Effectiveness aside, the purpose of this policy research note is to describe additional issues in UDL specifically relating to disabled students. First, I argue that the core tenet of UDL to meet all learners’ needs by emphasizing variability in approaches to learning (and consequently avoiding reference to ‘disability’) may inadvertently marginalize disabled students. Second, I argue that the focus on instructional design as a panacea to meet the needs of ‘all people’, including disabled students, is insufficient. This potentially distracts well-intentioned educators from more substantive challenges experienced by disabled students, relating to the built environment. Until the sensory and social needs of disabled students are met, instructional approaches like UDL cannot provide an equitable learning experience for many disabled students. Therefore, I argue that higher education leaders should attend to the sensory and social environments of university campuses before retrofitting inclusive pedagogies to the current typical university campus.
People with disabilities also need ease of accessibility anywhere that allows them to do all the activities without any interruption of access in order to realize the similarity of opportunity in all ...aspects of life and livelihood that will aim to realize the independence of those who have obstacles, both physical, intellectual and other. Ease of access to public space is one of the rights to which are owned by them, therefore we need to pay attention to universal design principles so that they also get the right and the opportunity to enjoy the facilities provided by the government. In this research, using library research (library research). The study of literature is a study by using the method of data collection library, or in other words a research object of research is sourced from a variety of literature such as books, encyclopedias, journals and scientific articles. As a result, the application of universal design principles in public spaces for persons with disabilities is still lacking and needs attention. Public space should be a comfortable place for people with disabilities to do activities like the general public.
