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Learning Without Limits: Identifying the Barriers and Enablers to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in IS Education

Dinal Wijeratne, Denis Dennehy Orcid Logo, Shivaun Quinlivan, Lucy-Ann Buckley, Cameron Keighron, Sharon Flynn

Journal of Information Systems Education, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 61 - 74

Swansea University Author: Denis Dennehy Orcid Logo

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Inclusion in Information Systems (IS) has received significant attention in recent years, but inclusion in IS curriculum design and delivery is comparatively underdeveloped. Understanding and working with diversity in IS student groups has implications for how we prepare students for a diverse workp...

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Published in: Journal of Information Systems Education
ISSN: 1055-3096 2574-3872
Published: 2022
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59609
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Abstract: Inclusion in Information Systems (IS) has received significant attention in recent years, but inclusion in IS curriculum design and delivery is comparatively underdeveloped. Understanding and working with diversity in IS student groups has implications for how we prepare students for a diverse workplace and the design and development of IS systems. Although progress has been made towards inclusive higher education, institutions have not transformed into multicultural diverse organizations. This paper showcases an initiative to apply principles of Universal Design in the particular context of an IS postgraduate programme in a leading Irish business school. This initiative is set within the context of two connected research projects seeking to identify barriers to inclusion experienced by students generally, and particularly by certain student groups, in the same school. The findings demonstrate the persistence of inclusion issues in higher education, including in IS, that Universal Design principles are effective in developing more inclusive teaching and learning practices, and that small actions can have a big impact in this regard. A set of key recommendations is provided; while not exhaustive, these contribute to the wider discourse on inclusion and offer practical suggestions to educators on the design and delivery of inclusive programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Keywords: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Information systems (IS), Curriculum design & development
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: 1
Start Page: 61
End Page: 74

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