UNIVERSALPrinciples of Universal Design for Learning

Diverse students

Students come from different:

• Cultures and languages

• Mixture of ages and genders

• Learning Styles

• Disabilities

Meeting needs

Universal Design for Learning

is a set of principles and techniques

for creating inclusive classroom instruction

and accessible course materials technologies.

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UDL at the document level

• Search-ability

• Select-ability for Copy and Paste

• Bookmarks or an Interactive TOC

• Text to Speech capability

• Accessibility

UDL at the document level

• Consider the content• Media – is it captioned? If text, is it easy to read?

• Develop a consistent structure• Use headings, lists, tables, emphasis, etc.

• Presentation• Use styles to apply a consistent look and feel

UDL - PDF creation• Microsoft 2007 -2010

• Create PDF files (print to or save as)

• Benefits of Adobe Acrobat Pro

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UDL - Images• Label with alt text

• Describe meaning

UDL - Multimedia

Transcripts• A written or text-based record of dictated or recorded

speech. May contain additional relevant information, such as descriptions or comments.

Captions• A transcript is timed to display with the video track, it

displays on screen as a caption.

Descriptive Audio• The narration of key visual elements in a video or

multimedia product.

UDL - Videos

Closed Captioning

• YouTube videos• Upload transcript in text format• Machine Automated captions• http://www.youtube.com

• MAGpie• Works with most major video formats• http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/

Learn more• Colorado State University – Access

• Universal Design for Learning

• http://accessproject.colostate.edu/udl/