UDL: Intermediate - Universal Design for Learning (UDL) - George Brown Faculty

Explore more ways in which you can integrate UDL into your courses.

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Creating accessible Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, by Lynda.com (4 videos x 3 minutes)
Ensure that everyone can access, use, and benefit from your Microsoft Office documents by implementing these accessibility best practices from David Rivers. This course first explains what accessibility is, why it's important, and what makes a file difficult to access. Then David provides some document standards, guidelines, and tips before launching into specifics in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. See how to use the Accessibility Checker to locate accessibility issues quickly in each application, and find out how to make elements such as text, images, tables, and objects accessible to all. The course also covers using text-to-speech functionality, adding alt text to describe graphics and images, and manipulating object order for screen readers.
Applying UDL Principles with Technology, by Lynda.com (4 videos x 3 minutes)
Put the "tech" into your teaching. Learn how to use technology to enhance course design, lesson planning, presentations, in-class activities, assessments, and student achievement and engagement. Author Kevin Kelly explains how learning outcomes can be adapted to support technology in the classroom, and guides educators through selecting the appropriate technology for their activity, module, or class.
Blending Technology and Classroom Learning: Jessie Woolley-Wilson (11 minutes)
Jessie Woolley-Wilson is an eLearning leader who has served as President of LeapFrog SchoolHouse, Blackboard, and now as Chair, President and CEO of DreamBox Learning, creator of the Intelligent Adaptive Learning platform that teaches students at any level of understanding how to become better junior mathematicians.
Design Thinking: Tim Brown Urges Designers to Think Big, by Tim Brown (16 minutes
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking.“

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CAST’s Examples and Resource for by principle and checkpoints
Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool, by Barbara Bray, web page
- While it deals mostly with K-12, it’s an application of design thinking to UDL implementation
Analyzing a college course that adheres to the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, by Frances Smith (30 pages)
- Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL), 2012
Universal Design for Instruction in Postsecondary Education: A Systematic Review of Empirically Based Article (11 pages)
- Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2011

Course Redesign Checklist
A graphic organizer to help you identify UDL opportunities in your course

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Immediate Actions You Could Implement:

Double check that the learning materials meet accessibly standards - Supports Representation
Integrate tools like Blackboard, Office 365, and in-class response systems to promote participation - Supports Engagement
Develop multiple assessment formats - Supports Engagement

Speak with:

A UDL Curriculum Specialist, email Valerie Scovill or Patricia Robinson
Your program Librarian for resources and research support

Participate in faculty professional development courses:

Blackboard training or LMS support drop-ins (hosted by eLearing & Teaching Innovation)
- Assignments, Rubrics, & Groups
- Tests, surveys, & pools
- Collaborate Ultra
Reading List Building for Blackboard (hosted by the Library Learning Commons), visit Learning Calendar in Cornerstone

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) - George Brown Faculty

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Accessible Library Services

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