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Fluid: Inclusive Distributed Learning by Jutta Treviranus

Fluid:  Inclusive Distributed Learning

Jutta Treviranus
Director
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre

The Fluid Project is an international community of academic institutions and corporations working together to address the precarious values of inclusion and usability within the bold experiment that is the community source movement—so that community source applications become platforms for innovation in learning, accessibility, and user experience.

About Jutta Treviranus

Jutta Treviranus established and directs the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) at the University of Toronto, an internationally recognized centre of expertise on barrier-free access to information technology. She has more than 25 years of experience in the field of access technology and inclusive design. Jutta has lead a large number of national and international multi-partner research networks (including The Inclusive Learning Exchange (TILE), the Canadian Network for Inclusive Cultural Exchange, the Network for Inclusive Distance Education, CulturAll, Stretch, Fluid and the Barrierfree project), that have led to a range of broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has helped to develop pivotal accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally (including W3C Web Accessibility Initiative ATAG, IMS Global Learning Consortium AccessForAll and ISO 24751). She is also a member of a number of key advisory panels and task forces (e.g., Accessibility for Ontarions with Disabilities Act, Pan-Canadian E-learning Strategy, JTC1 Special Working Group on Accessibility). Among the many awards received by the ATRC is the American Foundation for the Blind Access Award (1998), the Trophee de Libre for Open Source Development, and the Dr. Dayton M. Forman Memorial Award. Jutta holds faculty appointments in the Faculty of Information Studies, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Knowledge Media Design Institute, at the University of Toronto.
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