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When Education Is Designed for All Learners

Edsurge

Propping up her vigorous routine are the poles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the perfect blend of education technology, ensuring that everything keeps spinning along at the right pace and momentum. EdSurge: How do you bring the principles of UDL into your classroom—with or without the help of technology? Absolutely.

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Multiple Choice

Digital Promise

One of the key elements of the curriculum-design approach known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is student engagement — creating opportunities for students to become engaged and stay motivated, to believe that what they’re learning is important, and to feel capable in their learning. Among the many action points in UDL Now!

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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

Can community guidelines help? Palloff and Keith Pratt (book), provides case studies about building community in online environments. Online classes are often recorded. What does that mean for faculty academic freedom, student participation in discussions and questions about intellectual property?

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). ProjectChoiceBoard.

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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

As the seminar progresses, they will use technologies they study to create these reflections. UDL guidelines . Other student work: every week students share their reflections on that week’s topic. Initially they do this through Canvas, Georgetown’s learning management system. Analyze Canvas app.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

We heard from Albat and Stephanie Del Tufo, assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, who studies individual differences in learning, language and literacy. So we need to try to follow those UDL guidelines to ensure that our course materials are accessible for all, for all learners.

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How Designing Accessible Curriculum For All Can Help Make Online Learning More Equitable

MindShift

Some educators who want to make online learning more engaging and accessible are exploring the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. The beauty of UDL is that it addresses ‘learner variability’, which is the norm in our classrooms.”. A key premise of UDL is that there is no “average learner.” Online Class Design.

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