The AEM Navigator facilitates the process of decision-making around accessible formats of educational materials for individual students. It assists teams in making informed, accurate, and multi-step decisions related to determining a student's need for accessible formats, selecting the format(s) needed, acquiring materials, and determining the…

Presents a decision model for multimedia design that includes eight components: needs and goals, learner characteristics, topics/tasks, objectives, performance assessment, instructional activities, media/delivery systems, and resources. A checklist for multimedia design and a project task timeline are included. Potential impacts of multimedia on…

Culture represents the complex of social, emotional, intellectual, physical, and personal factors that individuals use to create meaning. When these are missing from instructional materials, achievement may be imperiled. Examples of how cultural variables can be incorporated into instructional decisions are presented to illustrate the potential…