Universal Design Module

The Florida Consortium on Postsecondary Education and Intellectual Disabilities has created a module on Universal Design for Online Learning. The module is five sections and takes about two hours to review.

From the module's webpage:

• Section 1: Introduction to UDL provides the history of UDL, its relevance to what we know about variability in learning, and the principles that comprise the UDL framework. Four sections addressing the interrelated components of the UDL curriculum follow the introduction.
• Section 2:Network-Based Goals provides guidance of how to structure a learning activity such as a lecture, presentation, laboratory experiment, or an assessment by identifying its true purpose and how to effectively communicate goals to students.
• Section 3:Methods presents flexible strategies to support student learning.
• Section 4:Materials guides you in the selection of flexible media and materials that support a variety of pathways to meet specific learning expectations.
• Section 5:Assessing Students offers considerations for designing assessments that accurately measure student knowledge, skills and engagement by maintaining construct relevance and reducing irrelevant or distracting elements that interfere with the assessment’s validity.

Click Universal Design for Online Learning to view the the module.