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Floe aims to provide the resources needed to enable inclusive access to personally relevant, engaging learning opportunities for the full diversity of learners and content producers. Through the Open Education Resources community, FLOE will build tools that transform, augment, and personalize the learning experience.

Description

Learners learn best when the experience is personalized to individual needs. OER is an ideal learning environment to meet the diverse needs of learners, including learners with disabilities. The FLOE (Flexible Learning for Open Education) Project will support the OER community in providing a sustainable, integrated approach to accessible learning, addressing the needs of learners who currently face barriers.

Floe will produce:

• an authoring toolkit to assist in authoring flexible resources
  Inclusive Learning Design Handbook

• an engaging outreach and awareness program for both the OER community and the accessibility community to encourage collaboration in meeting diverse learner needs
  Mozilla Drumbeat Inclusive Learning Project

• tools that allow OER producers to create and label content
  see early design work around creating and labeling content.

• tools that allow OER learners to specify their learning needs and preferences
  see early design work around needs and preferences.

• a solution to match learning needs with suitable OERs through a set of embeddable components and services
  this solution will be part of the Fluid Infusion code solution.

• integration with existing OERs
  Floe partners include Connexions, OER Commons, and Open Courseware Consortium to name a few.

The Grant

> To read the full Floe grant, download this PDF file.

Floe Timeline and Deliverables

> Floe Deliverables Summary
> Fluid 2013 Roadmap

Design

> (Floe) Concept Design Mindmap
> (Floe) Landscape of Alternatives, Transformations, Customizations
> (Floe) User states and contexts

Development

> Floe Development
> Infusion 1.4 Release Status
> Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure Architecture