Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Universally Designed Learning Experience

Jesse Hausler, Craig Spooner, Colorado State University, Thursday, 2/18/10, 2:30 p.m.

The ACCESS Project

Funded by DOE

  • Ensuring that students with disabilities receive a quality higher education.
  • Determined that emphasis on assistive technologies was too narrow
  • Disabled students didn't think they were disabled
  • Decided to broaden the definition of accessible
  • Make the technologies more usable
  • About teaching and technology
dissemination
  • Embedded UDL principles into prof development to improve learning, teaching, and technology
Created a UDL award
  • Monetary incentive
Acvisory group
  • Provost
  • Teaching and learning
  • Student affairs
  • IT
  • Retention
  • Gives an external prospective
  • Tie UDL to strategic plan
  • Provides buy-in from senior administration
Orientations for new faculty
Master Teacher Initiatives
Teaching with Technology

Electronic reserves
Electronic books
  • Planning team for e-book reading technology
  • Hardware and software
Faculty training
  • f-2-f
  • Online modules
  • accessproject.colostate.edu/udl/modules
  • UDL research in gateway courses such as vet services and psychology
Research results
  • 9-11% of students have a disability
  • Just a few hours of training can produce significant changes in instructor teaching behavior
Institutionalization is realized by
  • Philosophical shift to UDL
  • Inclusive pedagogy for all
  • Advisry group of key administrators

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