eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

Inclusive educators often use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to provide students with consistent access to engaging content and effective paths for achieving educational goals in classrooms where they experience a greater sense of belonging. The first principle of UDL invites teachers to use “multiple means of representation.”.

Universal Design

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Summarized transcription: What and why Summarized transcription, a form of “speech-to-text services,” provides “meaning-for-meaning” transcriptions by summarizing the essence of a discussion or other spoken content. They offer real-time summarized transcripts for lectures, meetings, and live events, either remotely or in the classroom.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2023

By linking andragogy to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines, I offer suggestions for how faculty can advance student success using them. UDL was developed by CAST (2018) as a framework for designing curricula that enables all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. References CAST (2018).

Universal Design

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Inclusive educators often use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to provide students with consistent access to engaging content and effective paths for achieving educational goals in classrooms where they experience a greater sense of belonging. The first principle of UDL invites teachers to use “multiple means of representation.”.

Universal Design

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So what if there was a new model of university designed from scratch for 2022? The paper’s authors say they hope their work can become a starting point for discussion, rather than a rigid template. One unusual aspect of the NEI model is to encourage professors to adopt online course materials developed at other universities.

Lecturing

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Teachers might break down lectures in bite-sized video clips, and use live streaming, or synchronous, time to conduct wellness checks with students and connect with them individually or in smaller groups. What I would like to see is a 10- to 15-minute mini lecture, then an activity for 30 to 45 minutes” followed by group discussion, she says.

Online Learning

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

What is Universal Design for Learning? Luis Perez : Universal design for learning begins with the premise that all learners vary, and that the way that we address that variability is by designing a flexible curriculum that has lots of choice. So it’s not always a lecture. It can be texting as well.

Universal Design

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

After all, “it's not just enough to put materials in Blackboard if it's not going to be accessible,” says Jennifer Albat, instructional designer at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Jennifer, as an instructional designer, are there particular concerns that you look out for? And the activity is just a content check.

Accessibility

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Pop-up social media spaces and hashtags, such as #remoteteaching , #CovidCampus , and the Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning Facebook group, feature numerous posts and discussions about digital tools, resources, and apps for remote teaching. Some schools rushed to get laptops and tablets to students in need.

Teaching

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. is Executive Director and Chief Scientist at EdTogether and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D.,

Accessibility

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

These questions and more are echoing through the special education ecosystem while federal recommendations and guidelines pivot aggressively around discussion of waivers, accountability and budgets. The result is a transformed, universally-designed classroom where all students can learn. Will we ever catch up for time lost?

Disabilities

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Last week the #DLNchat community gathered for a thought experiment around this question: If you could design an online college degree from scratch, how would you do it? Faculty, instructional designers, administrators and entrepreneurs shared their thoughts—from first steps to long-term sustainability. That includes student services.

eLearning

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As George Mason University designed a new academic building recently, for instance, officials raised the idea of having faculty members share offices with windows, with one professor using an office on, say Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and another using it on Tuesdays and Thursdays, says T.

History

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

In-person: There are two approaches to accessibility in academia—accommodations and universal design. Online meeting opportunities and collaboration sessions, such as audio and video conferences and Zoom presentations, allow learners to engage with each other and participate in discussions. Learning spaces I.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

In-person: There are two approaches to accessibility in academia—accommodations and universal design. Online meeting opportunities and collaboration sessions, such as audio and video conferences and Zoom presentations, allow learners to engage with each other and participate in discussions. Learning spaces I.

Disabilities

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2019

All of these solutions have come to fruition based on, first, the concept of universal design and, second, the idea that technology can be used in innovative ways to enhance life in practically any way possible. Adapting Physical Learning Spaces.

Accessibility

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Create community guidelines for discussions that include intention and impact/anti-bias language. Immediately address ableist /biased remarks in the classroom through discussion. Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.). Thank you for your work towards broadening access to higher education!

Accessibility

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. Students participate as they choose to and are accountable for meeting course demands regardless of the delivery mode they select.

Learning

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. Students participate as they choose to and are accountable for meeting course demands regardless of the delivery mode they select.

Learning

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Bonnie Hemrick, Director of Mental Health Promotion at Oregon State University, helped frame issues of student well-being and resilience. Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

Course Design

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

Course Design

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

You recorded your lectures or gathered via video call with however many students you could reach each week. No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. Can community guidelines help?

Syllabus

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I’ll discuss many times throughout the term that we can demonstrate our positive bedside manner and how it may look in the various types of class formats. This style can immediately engage students and it supports Universal Design for Learning, accessibility, and student equity. If you haven’t already, try a “visual syllabus.”

Syllabus

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I’ll discuss many times throughout the term that we can demonstrate our positive bedside manner and how it may look in the various types of class formats. This style can immediately engage students and it supports Universal Design for Learning, accessibility, and student equity. If you haven’t already, try a “visual syllabus.”

Syllabus