You strive for your course content to be effective, user-friendly and accessible to all students. Work toward these goals this summer by taking a fresh look at your fall courses through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Created by CAST, the UDL framework helps you proactively design learning environments that meet a range of student needs, abilities and preferences.
When designing (or redesigning) with UDL, you build in:
- Multiple means of engagement to motivate students with varying backgrounds, experiences and interests to learn and interact with course content.
- Multiple means of representation to ensure students can access explanations, examples and applications of content in a variety of forms, whether auditory, visual or textual.
- Multiple means of action and expression to offer a range of ways students can show what they have learned, such as by including varied assessment methods and allowing students to choose the medium of their work.
To learn more about UDL and how to apply it to your course,
- Register for our Introduction to Universal Design for Learning workshop.
- Read about UDL in the Teaching and Learning Resource Center.
- Explore CAST’s UDL guidelines and resources.
Ensuring your course meets digital accessibility standards is a key component of UDL—you may also be interested in Developing Accessible Course Content, an asynchronous learning experience in CarmenCanvas.
A new asynchronous workshop on UDL will be available later this summer—bookmark our On-Demand Learning page and stay tuned for future announcements!