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

Foreword by Allison Posey

About This Book

Introduction: Accessing Higher Education

Chapter 1: Making Connections in Teaching, Learning, and Life With Universal Design for Learning

Chapter 2: Curriculum Development at a UDL University: What Works, What Doesn't

Chapter 3: Enhancing Engagement in the Technology Classroom With Nearpod

Chapter 4: PechaKucha : An Effective Tool for Teaching, Engaging Students, and Supporting Success

Chapter 5: Personalizing Communication: Using UDL Ideas to Breathe New Life Into Asynchronous Discussion Boards

Chapter 6: Practicing Social Justice and Becoming Agents of Change

Chapter 7: From Standard Operating Procedures to Universal Design for Learning: A Lifelong Learning Process

Chapter 8: Breaking Down the Introduction Paragraph With UDL Trickery

Chapter 9: Minimizing Threats and Distractions in a Peer Review

Chapter 10: Annotated? Overrated: Rethinking Research

Chapter 11: Badges and Paths: Creating Learner-Centered Environments in Online Classes

Chapter 12: Go-Karts and Arc Welders: Simulating Our Way to Success in a UDL-Informed Welding Class

Chapter 13: UDL and the Freedom to Fail: Technology, Games, Innovation, and Play

Chapter 14: It's the Passion, It's the Motivation-It's the Goal

Chapter 15: Transforming Master's Courses Through the Empowerment of Learners

Chapter 16: UDL and the Golden Ticket: Promoting Student Choice in Graduate Education

Afterword: The UDL Transformation

Further Reading

References

Index