In a nutshell, Universal Design for Learning, or UDL, is a framework that urges educators, policymakers, and all education stakeholders to think about teaching and learning in a way that gives all ...

Universal Design for Learning becomes more actionable when faculty connect inclusive teaching strategies with the technical standards that shape how students experience digital course materials. In ...

The same design principles that brought Braille panels to public elevators and curb cuts to city sidewalks should be imported to the classroom and used to transform lessons and textbooks, says a ...

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way to structure your course so it is fully accessible to as many students as possible without a need for modifications or accommodations. It draws from ...

We don’t know what higher education will look like after COVID-19. However, we do know that there is no going back to pre-pandemic academic business as usual. COVID-19 has accelerated the ...

Neelofer Qadir is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Follow her on twitter @_neelofer and check out her website. An athlete whose sport was in season during the ...

When you label a student as less engaged in the classroom, what are some of the indicators of a lack of engagement that you consider? Is it their recreational use of technology during lectures, their ...

In 2015, the New York transit system opened its first new subway station in 25 years; the city of Toronto hosted the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games; the YMCA opened a new facility in Grand Rapids, ...

This page was created collaboratively by the offices of Advancements in Teaching Excellence and Diversity & Inclusion and the Office of Digital Learning, with contributors from the University of ...

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework has become a central tenet in fostering inclusive educational practices that cater to the heterogeneous needs of learners. By promoting flexible ...

Here’s how our LMS supports UDL and helps us create an anytime-anywhere learning environment for students who get taught from where they are—not from where we “think” they are ...