UDL University: Designing for Variability Across the Postsecondary Curriculum
UDL University: Designing for Variability Across the Postsecondary Curriculum
UDL University: Designing for Variability Across the Postsecondary Curriculum
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In UDL University: Designing for Variability Across the Postsecondary Curriculum, sixteen Goodwin faculty members share their stories of ambitious experiments, inspirational successes, and instructive failures in applying Universal Design for Learning in their classrooms. Their compelling and highly personal accounts of UDL's transformative effects span a variety of disciplines at the career-focused university-nursing, sociology, histology, computers, math, writing, literature welding, manufacturing, social justice, management, education, and more.
While the focus is on higher education, these stories provide educators at any level with practical illustrations of how to translate UDL theory into concrete lesson plans and curricular designs. They may also foster campus-wide conversations about teaching and learning, the variability of learners, and a new vision for more inclusive approach to education.
Allison Posey, a curriculum and design specialist at CAST who collaborates with educators from across the U.S. and internationally to implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL), provides the Foreword. She works in a wide range of settings, from kindergarten to higher education institutions to informal learning environments - with the ultimate goal that learning is intentionally designed to meet the needs of every individual in equitable, inclusive ways.
Contributors include: Amy Beauchemin, Annjanette Bennar, Keith A. Carter, Sandi Coyne-Gilbert, Michelle Dent, Phillip J. Fox, Kelli Goodkowsky, Lisa Coolidge Manley, Karrie Morin, Cynthia Murphy, Zachary Vincent Smith, Ellen Swider, Robin L. Young-Cournoyer
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Critical Reviews
"UDL can't be reduced to a method or a checklist or a lens. It is ultimately nothing less than a radical change to education culture itself and the institutions and individuals involved. UDL University offers a unique opportunity to see the inner workings of UDL not just in curriculum or method change, but in changed people and a changed institution." - Eric J. Moore, PhD, co-author, UDL Navigators in Higher Education, and higher education consultant at Innospire.org
"In my work with university instructors, I can't even count the number of times I've heard the question, 'Yeah, but what does this look like in [insert field here]?' UDL University has proactively addressed these questions by elevating the lived experiences of postsecondary educators in a huge variety of fields and disciplines as they infuse their courses, assignments, and instruction with the principles of the UDL framework." - Jennifer L. Pusateri, PhD, Universal Design consultant, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) at the University of Kentucky
"As a professor at Boston College with life-long disabilities, I have modeled and advocated for UDL for the past twenty plus years. UDL University offers something new and unique--a collection of authentic and compelling stories about the lived experiences of teaching faculties across a wide range of disciplines who collaboratively interrogate their own teaching practices through a UDL lens. All in the higher ed sector can draw on these case stories to imagine a more certain future of greater opportunity and wider participation for all students." -- Richard M. Jackson, PhD, Associate Professor, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College
"As someone who has taught with UDL in college courses for over 20 years, I'm so impressed with this publication. It is good to see that some UDL practices have continued to thrive over the years yet, the depth and detail this text illustrates with UDL is outstanding. The range of subjects discussed provides so many contexts and the faculty share such wonderful examples of how they've considered UDL in their course. In addition, the personal 'How I Got Here' piece that follows each chapter offers a deeper perspective on the author/educator and how their practices have been shaped and transformed. This is a must-have volume on the bookshelf of any educator in higher education."-- Fran Smith, EdD, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
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