Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

• UDL is a more inclusive approach to curriculum design and delivery. Rather than making a plethora of individual adjustments to support individual disabled students why not create a curriculum in such a way that most of those adjustments are rendered unnecessary because the curriculum is already inclusive?
• We are unlikely to be able to remove the need for all such adjustments but using UDL can help you to remove large numbers of them. Not only does a more inclusive curriculum improve the lives of disabled students it often improves the lives of all their non-disabled peers as well.
• What is more, designing out the need to organise and arrange individual adjustments improves the working lives of staff too.

Why use UDL – watch this YouTube video to learn why

• These individual reasonable adjustments can build up into a considerable logistical burden for academics when you have large groups 10-15% of which may be disabled.
• Would it not make so much more sense to develop a curriculum where these adjustments were already designed in? This is sometimes referred to as Universal Design for learning (UDL).
• You can use this YouTube video to act as a prompt for discussions about curriculum design with your colleagues.from each other by speaking about the covered topic(s).

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