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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As Higbee and Goff (2008) suggest, UD emphasizes accommodating the needs of a diverse user base in the creation of spaces, products, or programs. individuals on skateboards or parents with strollers), as well as automatic doors, elevators, and lever-style door handles (Higbee & Goff, 2008). What is Universal Design for Learning ?

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The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education

Iterating Toward Openness

This is because books are what economists refer to as private goods, meaning they have two specific characteristics: they are rivalrous and excludable. As Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig has written, modern copyright law has made criminals of us all (Lessig, 2008). References. Creative Commons (2015). The Review Project.

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