Universal Design for Learning: Theory, Practice, and Innovation

Harvard HGSE

Educators are typically equipped with technology, media, and materials that are "one size fits all" and that have been designed primarily for a narrow and illusive group of "regular" students. This course will explore an alternative approach--universal design for learning (UDL)--that creates curricula and learning environments that are designed to meet the needs of a much wider range of student abilities and disabilities. The UDL framework takes advantage of advances…