The authors launched the Japan Persons with Disabilities Fashion Association (JPFA) in November 2019. We have been engaged in developing fashion that appeals to as many people as possible, regardless of disability, gender, or nationality. With the generous support of many people, the JPFA was able to hold the “WFR (Wheelchair Fashion Row)” fashion show on September 27, 2022, during the Paris Fashion Week 2023 spring/summer. Through the challenge, a new form of universal design has emerged. We named the universal design developed from the three perspectives of “Enjoyability” in addition to the conventional Accessibility and Usability as “Next UD (Next Universal Design)”. We developed 10 Next UD fashion patterns and presented them at the WFR. From the perspective of social inclusion, the Next UD presented is only at the proposal stage, but we hope it will be of some help in promoting discussion in the future.

This paper discusses design and implementation of a distributed multi-platform learning environment based on an extensible learning support system architecture called ELECOA. With the key concept of “courseware objects”, ELECOA provides flexibility to extend functions of learning environments without losing content reusability. In addition to these features of ELECOA, this paper proposes distributed learning environment in which courseware objects communicate to implement learning support strategies on various platforms including web server and smartphone. The communication patterns of courseware objects are analyzed to derive design of offline learning environment in which part of online content is able to operate continuously without external communication from offline environment. The proposed learning environment provides desirable characteristics of learning objects including reusability, flexibility and interoperability among platforms for not only content objects but strategy objects.