Universal Design for Learning

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers a solution to educators who wish to avoid student exclusion and marginalisation.

By frontloading inclusion in the design of their courses / modules, etc., UDL helps educators avoid the work of having to develop individual accommodations down the line, and helps students avoid the burden of having to ask for them.

UDL is about creating and implementing instruction that meets multiple learning needs, preferences and circumstances in order to ensure all students have equitable access to learning. 

The three core principles of UDL are multiple means of engagement; multiple means of representation; and multiple means of action and expression.

              Cartoon giving an example of universal design.  A bunch of children wait to enter their school, one of them is in a wheelchair. Entrance to the school is via steps or a ramp. There is snow on the ground and a man is shovelling the snow off the steps. Child in wheelchair:


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