Re: Professor Crevecoeur's presentation was part of a lecture series for Professor Zhigang Zhu, Professor Yingli Tian, and Professor Tony Ro's National Science Foundation EFRI Research Experience and Mentoring Program. This program aims to train students from traditionally under-represented groups on multimodal sensing, machine learning and assistive technologies. The abstract of his presentation is below:
Diversity in schools and classrooms is more than just the racial and cultural makeup of the student body; diversity includes a range of variables such as differences in ability, culture, family experience,
language, learning history, and socioeconomic status. Because of the variety of ways diversity manifests itself, it is imperative that we view students' needs as falling on a continuum, rather than categorized within groups or specific types of learners. Within classroom environments, we should move beyond strictly using assistive technologies in isolation to address the learning needs of subgroups of students via embedded universal design principles. This presentation will provide a general overview of the use of assistive technologies within universally-designed instruction for diverse learners.
