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How can you incorporate Universal Design for Learning?
As part of the UDL Community of Practice, we are collating exemplars of how Universal Design for Learning is being used in the 51本色. We're looking at examples of how UDL theory is used in practice.
Dr Lydia Bracken
Dr Lydia Bracken,聽Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, discusses the importance of representation and diversity in reading lists and syllabi.
Dr Yvonne Cleary
Dr Yvonne Cleary, School of English, Irish and Communication, discusses how she gave her learners choice in assessment, and the effect it had on her and her students.
Brian Shee
Instructional Designer Brian Shee discusses why UDL choice and flexibility are important to help professional learners returning to learning achieve learning objectives.
David Moloney
David Moloney, Digital Skills Development Lead, Centre for Transformative Learning, tells us how he created a blog post template to allow staff to follow blog best practices.
Dr Lilian Genaro Motti Ader
Dr Lilian Genaro Motti Ader, Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction, discusses how she used a tool called the Positionality Wheel (Noel, 2018) to explore the diversity of her students.
Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam
Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam, Lecturer in History and Course Director, MA Public History & Cultural Heritage tells us how she incorporated reflective journals into her programme, and allowed learners to submit in a format which suited them.
Dr Angelica Risquez
Dr Angelica Risquez, Centre for Transformative Learning, tells us about the UDL changes she made to an existing module and the effect it had on her students.
Peter Reilly
Peter Reilly, Librarian, Learning and Engagement, discusses how he uses Lego bricks to explain a difficult concept for students.
Dr Pauline Boland
Dr Pauline Boland, School of Allied Health, discusses how she incorporated a flipped classroom model and different activities to help her students understand theories they had previously struggled to engage with.
Dr Darina Slattery
Dr Darina Slattery, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, tells us how and why she started to carry out Accessibility checks in the documents she provides her students.
Sin茅ad Wall
Sin茅ad Wall, Instructional Designer UL@Work discusses how she created an animated video to help learners at the 51本色 and Clare Education and Training Board understand a research assignment.
If you are using elements of UDL and would like to share your inclusive teaching practices, please get in touch with jess.beeley@ul.ie.
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