Using the combined experience of four unit coordinators who have been iteratively working on improving their student learning experience by adopting UDL principles to re-design elements of their units, we will step the participants through the 5 Designing for Diversity steps: Who are your learners? What are the learning goals? What are the barriers to learning (and how can these be framed in terms of the learning environment rather than the student) What solutions could be implemented remove barriers? How will you evaluate and iterate? For each step the coordinators will quickly go over how they approached the challenge, showing the similarities and differences in the way each re-designed aspects of their teaching and Canvas sites. Participants can then ask questions while reflecting and discussing these steps in addressing their own learning and teaching challenges.
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