Wentworth instructional designers Josh Luckens, Megan Hamilton Giebert, and Lucy Wolski discuss strategies to implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in college classrooms.

UDL is a framework that seeks to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn best. Research shows that the ways in which people learn are as unique as their fingerprints. UDL guides the design of learning environments that reduce barriers to learning and empowers students to become expert learners in the rich diversity of ways that people learn.

Additional resources:

• TLC Interactive Module: Universal Design for Learning
• Website: The UDL Guidelines
• Website: UDL in Higher Ed
• Website: CAST: Until Learning Has No Limits, the nonprofit education research and development organization behind UDL
• Book: Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling
• Podcast: Think UDL Podcast (September, 2022)