Universal Design for Learning

Three Dimensions of UDL

While city planners and architects use Universal Design for developing public buildings and urban centers, teachers and instructional designers use a modified version of Universal Design called Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Here are the three dimensions of UDL:

Universal Design for Learning Guidelines Text for use with a screenreader Links to an external site.

Universal Design for Learning Guidelines graphic PDF Download Universal Design for Learning Guidelines graphic PDF

Graphic provided by UDL on Campus Links to an external site.

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Another Dimension of UDL

Accessibility is implied throughout the UDL guidelines, most specifically in the guidelines for representation. UDL allows us to think about accessibility as more than just creating accessible PDFs and providing captioning, but rather as the learning experience we are providing for our students. At first, this may sound like science fiction, but re-imagining your class can lead to a more engaged experience for you and your students. You could, in essence, boldly go where no one has gone before! Here's a short video summarizing the main points of UDL:

https://youtu.be/mkBRm7-yJ30 Links to an external site.