Introduction
This project, financed by the Pedagogy Transformation Fund, will enable the creation of Animated Inclusive Personae (AIPs) – furthering the progress made in developing inclusive digital personae and animating these for use in teaching and training material.
In conjunction with their development, we will work with course teams and service providers to look for ways to further embed equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) in learning materials and student services through by identifying areas where these AIPs can be deployed to enhance the student experience or provide information.
The Project
This project is based on work done previously in the development of the Attributes and Aspirations (AA) programme. Inclusive personae were designed and delivered through the creation of this project which utilises a range of innovative learning design elements. Elements of this work have been published in the paper 'Using Personae to Promote Inclusive Education'. Other work from this project can be found on our Research and Publications page. As part of the work with Attributes and Aspirations the team also developed a workshop for the Education Development Unit to offer colleagues from across the college the chance to design their own personae.
When trying to develop these personae for use in other contexts we found a significant issue with off-the-shelf products whereby finding appropriate imagery, either animated or photorealistic, to represent our diverse cohort is near impossible. Solving this problem with live action recordings or professionally developed animations is prohibitively costly both financially and in terms of lead time for development.
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