Engaging and training students in the development of inclusive learning materials for their peers

TY - JOUR

T1 - Engaging and training students in the development of inclusive learning materials for their peers

AU - Everett, Sally

AU - Oswald, Gina

PY - 2018/10/3

Y1 - 2018/10/3

N2 - With equal access requirements and increasing rates of enrolment of students with disabilities in higher education, universities must find appropriate and efficient ways to create accessible materials which benefit and support all students. In response to cuts to disability funding, issues relating to the provision of an inclusive curriculum are now dominating institutional policy and educational discourses. This paper reports on a trans-Atlantic project which utilised student employees to convert and develop inclusive learning materials for their peers, with the expressed purpose of piloting a sustainable intervention method generalisable to meeting similar needs of diverse universities for inclusive material provision and a future workforce aware of disability issues and accommodations. Qualitative in-depth interviews with ten students (eight UK and two US) find that involving student employees in the delivery of inclusive materials improves partnerships and attitudes around disability and accessibility measures.

AB - With equal access requirements and increasing rates of enrolment of students with disabilities in higher education, universities must find appropriate and efficient ways to create accessible materials which benefit and support all students. In response to cuts to disability funding, issues relating to the provision of an inclusive curriculum are now dominating institutional policy and educational discourses. This paper reports on a trans-Atlantic project which utilised student employees to convert and develop inclusive learning materials for their peers, with the expressed purpose of piloting a sustainable intervention method generalisable to meeting similar needs of diverse universities for inclusive material provision and a future workforce aware of disability issues and accommodations. Qualitative in-depth interviews with ten students (eight UK and two US) find that involving student employees in the delivery of inclusive materials improves partnerships and attitudes around disability and accessibility measures.

KW - accessible learning materials

KW - inclusive curriculum

KW - student participatory research

KW - Universal design

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040977081&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/13562517.2017.1421631

DO - 10.1080/13562517.2017.1421631

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85040977081

SN - 1356-2517

VL - 23

SP - 802

EP - 817

JO - TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

JF - TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

IS - 7

ER -