STRATEGIES – UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

1. STRATEGIES – UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS BTC DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES

2. The design of all products and environments to be usable by all people to the greatest extent possible. ~Ronald Mace, Center for UD North Carolina State University UNIVERSAL DESIGN:

3. Representation: Give learners a variety of ways to acquire information and knowledge • Expression: Tap into a person’s interest, offer appropriate challenges and motivate students to learn • Engagement: Provide learners with alternatives for demonstrating what they know UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING

4. Makes teaching methods available to all students • Helps students identify the way they learn best • Makes students feel successful and want to learn • When instructors learn about UDL, their teaching improves BENEFITS OF UDL:

5. Schedule an in-person meeting with class • ‘Buddy up’ students • Demonstrate log-on procedures • Identify note-taker or closed-captioner BEFORE CLASS BEGINS…

6. Information should be multi-sensory (visual, auditory, graphics, color) • Smaller, chunked sessions for increased attention • Use captions on all visuals and graphics UDL STRATEGIES ON-LINE…

7. Choose simple fonts • Choose web pages with narrow columns and font to the left of the page UDL STRATEGIES ON-LINE…continued

8. FEATURES: • Increase/decrease font size • Increase/decrease volume • Closed-captioning • Printable transcript ELLUMINATE

9. Post lecture material prior to Elluminate session • Repeat (reword) class questions before giving answers • Assume nothing! MODERATOR TIPS…

10. "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the REALIST adjusts his sails."