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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

Faculty Focus

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). ProjectChoiceBoard.

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UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes (has arrived!)

Catlin Tucker

We combined our expertise on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning to write a book designed to help teachers develop a mindset, skillset, and toolset that allows them to thrive no matter the educational setting–in class, online, or a blend of the two. Looking for a book study title for your staff?

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Utilizing Adult Learning Principles and Universal Design for Learning to Advance Student Success

Faculty Focus

Andragogy, or the study of adult learning, can provide insights on how to teach adult learners more effectively. By linking andragogy to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines, I offer suggestions for how faculty can advance student success using them. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2.

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Choice Boards: Benefits, Design Tips & Differentiation

Catlin Tucker

Student agency requires that we design our lessons to offer students meaningful choices. These choices can help us universally design learning experiences that strive to remove barriers and invite students to decide how to engage with information, make meaning, and demonstrate their learning. Review and Practice Choice Boards.

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Leveraging collaborative e-learning to support UDL

eSchool News

But how does the concept of Universal Design Learning (UDL) fit into all this? The same study also concluded that it “promotes motivation for reading and contributes to higher frequency of positive emotions and lower frequency of negative emotions.” Let’s unravel these questions.

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Utilizing Adult Learning Principles and Universal Design for Learning to Advance Student Success

Faculty Focus

Andragogy, or the study of adult learning, can provide insights on how to teach adult learners more effectively. By linking andragogy to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines, I offer suggestions for how faculty can advance student success using them. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2.