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Integrating inclusiveness and accessibility in education: Emerging technologies and learning in people with disabilities

Research Intelligence issue 165

This issue, guest edited by Fahriye Altinay, Rustam Shadiev and Zehra Altinay, provides insights into the increasing importance of emerging technologies in education systems to facilitate learning environments and practices suitable for people with disabilities, to support equality and equity in education. 

The editors emphasise the need to balance inclusiveness with meeting the needs of learners with special educational needs and disabilities and establishing an evidence-based understanding of learners’ diverse needs to ensure the quality of education.

Contributions to this issue:

• Muhammet Berigel considers how open-source educational resources and learning materials can be redesigned to support accessible and inclusive education
• Phillip Benachour shows how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to increase digital accessibility and reduce the gap between learners with and without disabilities, using an example from sub-Saharan Africa
• Deepika Kohli highlights the importance of policies and service sustainability when using AI and virtual reality (VR) to support inclusivity
• Aras Bozkurt contemplates how generative AI (GenAI) can provide an opportunity to reimagine inclusiveness in employment training, as a foundation for a sustainable society
• Ramesh Chander Sharma uses an inclusiveness lens to reflect on how gaming technology can help students with disabilities to become more active, creative and confident
• Ä°slam Suiçmez and Gokmen DaÄŸli provide insights into how the metaverse can be used in the education of people with disabilities and give suggestions for designing a platform based on universal human rights principles
• Salwa Mrayhi, Mohamed Koutheair Khribi and Mohamed Jemni consider massive open online courses (MOOCs) and argue that, as AI reshapes large-scale digital learning, innovation must be rooted in human values.

Elsewhere in this issue:

• We feature the official photos and highlights from ½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2025
• Alison Fox, editor of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog, interviews past guest editors of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites on their experiences of guest editing and what they gained from the opportunity
• An update from the chair of the Conference & Events Committee, Mhairi Beaton
• News about £30,000 from the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Small Grants Fund awarded for ASN/SEN/SEND research, recipients of the 2025 ½¿É«µ¼º½ ECR Career Development Fund, the 2025 John Nisbet Fellow, and the winners of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Equality in Education, Undergraduate and ECR Conference Best Presentation awards
• This issue’s book feature reviews AI-Based Solutions for Inclusive Quality Education, edited by K.M. Soni, Nitasha Hasteer, Aditi Bhardwaj, Rahul Sindhwani & J. Paulo Davim
• Stavroula Philippou reports on the official curriculum for public primary schools from the Republic of Cyprus
• Anne Rowan and Nicola Marlow, from the ECR Network, reflect on inclusive approaches to supporting EAL pupils with SEN/AEN across the island of Ireland.

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