Higher education faculty encounter a diverse student population with various learning needs, whether teaching in a traditional classroom setting, hybrid, or online. Too many students are failing to succeed and student retention continues to be an enormous issue. As institutions struggle to recruit, engage, and retain their students, it is time to evaluate whether current instructional practices are still working for students.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework that encourages instructors to design and deliver courses using flexible instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments with embedded choices and scaffolds to meet the needs of your diverse learning population. UDL takes into consideration that students learn differently and, therefore, should be provided with different options for learning materials and for demonstrating learning.
This course will help you understand the basic principles of UDL, and how to use the guidelines and philosophies to create a safe learning environment where students are invested, engaged, and thriving. We will also cover how the use of technology can assist teachers and trainers with creating flexible curricula that facilitate instructional differentiation to support all students in a higher education setting, regardless of varying needs.
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