Floe

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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.

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:

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