11-11-2025 –, Tango 2
How successful is your higher education institution at making students from diverse backgrounds feel at home and thrive? You need an inclusive learning environment, meaning that all students, regardless of their backgrounds, are given an equal opportunity to learn. Crucial to this is an inclusive curriculum: one that is recognisable, accessible and meaningful to diverse groups of students.
The ‘AI Inclusive Curriculum Scan’ helps teachers and educational developers to build inclusive education. Within seconds, this tool generates tailor-made advice for creating an inclusive curriculum. It also acts as a sparring partner in improving learning materials.
The way this works is simple: you upload your learning materials to the chatbot. The chatbot uses various sources to provide immediately applicable advice on strengths and areas for improvement. It will also ask stimulating questions that help you make your curriculum more inclusive.
The innovative AI technology gives you quick and efficient access to information that promotes the inclusivity of your materials. Teams of teachers can work together using the tool, so the impact applies to the entire programme.
Marette Ebert and Richard John developed the AI Inclusive Curriculum Scan together. Marette is a researcher at the Diversity Issues research group of Inholland University of Applied Sciences. She started with an inclusive curriculum scan for the teacher training programme at this university. Richard John works at the AI Taskforce team of Inholland; he used his AI expertise to create an initial prototype for the AI version based on Marette's scan. Currently the two working on further developing the AI scan and conducting various demonstration and test sessions to gather feedback within their organisation.
At the SURF Education Days 2025 they’ll give a workshop for you with the following structure:
Introduction
Short introduction about how the inclusive curriculum scan came about through the collaboration between the Diversity Issues research group and the teacher training programme at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Explanation of the Inclusive Curriculum Scan
The concepts of inclusive curriculum and the five levels on which you can assess your learning materials are explained. Some explanation is also given about how the chatbot is programmed.
Getting started
Using test learning materials (or learning materials brought by you), you’ll be able to scan the materials in groups and gather advice on how to make them more inclusive. You will also discuss the results in the groups based on specific questions.
Feedback
Using the specific questions, participants can share their experiences with the AI Inclusive Curriculum Scan and explain how they might use it in their practice.
The Inclusive Curriculum Scan aims to enable teachers and educational developers to increase their awareness and competence in creating inclusive curricula, resulting in a more inclusive and relevant educational offering for all pupils and students. During this workshop, the makers can test this and use these results to further develop the AI version.
Marette Ebert: Ik ben Marette en ik ben al meer dan 20 jaar werkzaam bij Hogeschool Inholland. Ik ben docent bij de opleiding Business Innovation maar vooral senior onderzoeker bij het Lectoraat Diversiteitsvraagstukken. Mijn focus is het ontwikkelen en uitvoeren van trainingen en tools op het gebied van inclusief onderwijs voor onze docenten en medewerkers. Mijn missie is om bij te dragen aan een inclusief Hogeschool Inholland waar we zorgdragen voor studiesucces voor ál onze studenten.