Indigenous inclusion in curriculum: creating cultural opportunities in multimedia learning resources: a case study

One of the key issues confronting any academic wishing to develop or incorporate Indigenous knowledge or approaches to learning in the curriculum is ensuring that the work is done in a pedagogically and culturally sensitive way. For too long Indigenous inclusion in the curriculum has been ignored by academics as being irrelevant too difficult, and in research Indigenous experiences have been represented and misrepresented by ‘white experts’ and commentators. This paper describes how a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics from Swinburne University developed sets of criteria for Indigenous inclusion in the curriculum and how they subsequently extended these criteria to include use of Indigenous knowledge and documents in multimedia learning resources.