The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework supports the growing need for the creation of pedagogy that responds to the increasingly diverse student demographic in post-secondary classrooms. At Dawson, we embrace this diversity and we understand that it includes students of varying cultures, backgrounds, abilities, learning preferences, ages and genders. <\/p>\n
Universal Design for Learning\u2019s core principles of multiple means of representation, engagement, and action and expression, can be seen as a response to evidence from neuroscience about this very diversity. UDL states that learning is as individual as one\u2019s fingerprint and that learner variability is the norm.<\/p>\n
Accepting the idea that diversity is the new \u201cnormal\u201d, the Student AccessAbility Centre at Dawson has been supporting inclusion through the promotion of UDL principles. In collaboration with 4 other post-secondary institutions (McGill, Marianopolis, Centennial and John Abbott) we partnered in a three year MESRST funded Chantier 3 project, Conception et implantation d\u2019une trousse d\u2019outils p\u00e9dagogiques faciltant l\u2019adoption durable de la conception universelle comme cadre d\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019apprentissage. <\/p>\n
The project investigated faculty perceptions of Universal Design; specifically, the facilitators and stressors experienced by teachers in the implementation of UDL in their pedagogical practices. This research resulted in the creation of a bilingual, on-line, user-friendly toolkit, ALLUDL. It provides a space for theoretical, practical and interactive resources by and for faculty, in order to support the integration of UDL in post-secondary pedagogy. <\/p>\n
The ALLUDL website will be hosted here at Dawson and it will feature examples of pedagogical materials developed within a UDL framework, by faculty throughout the five partner institutions, and beyond. Look for news about our upcoming launch date and related activities later in the spring. <\/p>\n
For more news on the work of this learning community, read about the research team and its work<\/a> (in English and French), tips for creating an inclusive learning environment<\/a>, and the alphabet soup of UD<\/a>, with all its acronyms described and explained, by Alice Havel, in her role as Research Associate with Adaptech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework supports the growing need for the creation of pedagogy that responds to the increasingly diverse student demographic in post-secondary classrooms. At Dawson, we embrace this diversity and we understand that it includes students of varying cultures, backgrounds, abilities, learning preferences, ages and genders. Universal Design for Learning\u2019s core…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[105,106],"tags":[128,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5604,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/5604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}