{"id":23234,"date":"2025-05-07T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/?p=23234"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:32:27","slug":"udl-symposium-2025-navigating-authentic-assessment-and-learning-in-a-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/udl-symposium-2025-navigating-authentic-assessment-and-learning-in-a-digital-world\/","title":{"rendered":"UDL Symposium 2025 &#8211; Navigating authentic assessment and learning in a digital world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Sydney and Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET) have partnered to bring you this year&#8217;s <strong>Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Symposium<\/strong>. This year&#8217;s theme is\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adcet.edu.au\/inclusive-teaching\/universal-design-for-learning\/udl-symposium-2025\">Navigating Authentic Assessment and Learning in a Digital World<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and we have a great line up of presenters from across the globe including Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Our keynote speaker is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adcet.edu.au\/inclusive-teaching\/universal-design-for-learning\/udl-symposium-2025#keynote\">Dr Se\u00e1n Bracken<\/a>, Principal Lecturer at the University of Worcester, UK, and co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/include.wp.worc.ac.uk\/\">International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education (INCLUDE)<\/a>.\u00a0Se\u00e1n\u00a0<span data-teams=\"true\">will open the Symposium speaking on navigating UDL implementation at an institutional level and deliver a closing address on the importance of empowering learner agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23246\" src=\"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner.png 1920w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner-1024x256.png 1024w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner-370x93.png 370w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner-570x143.png 570w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner-770x193.png 770w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/UDL-Symposium-2025-Banner-1170x293.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UDL Symposium is relevant for academic and professional staff as well as students, <span data-teams=\"true\">as it is an opportunity to share and showcase knowledge and expertise in UDL and enhance inclusive learning experiences and educational accessibility. This aligns with the University&#8217;s commitment\u00a0to deliver transformational, student-focused education that embraces equity, diversity and inclusion as outlined in the\u00a0<a id=\"menur90h\" class=\"fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/about-us\/2032-strategy.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/about-us\/2032-strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link 2032 Strategy\">2032 Strategy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition, with the introduction of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.sydney.edu.au\/courses\/63765\/pages\/the-new-sydney-assessment-framework-the-two-lane-approach\">Sydney Assessment Framework<\/a>, there are multiple opportunities throughout the event to engage with innovative approaches to authentic assessment and to examine the intersection of AI and UDL principles to enhance inclusive learning experiences.<\/p>\n<h2>UDL Symposium details<\/h2>\n<p><b>Day 1:\u00a0<\/b>Wed 25 June 2 pm &#8211; 6 pm<br \/>\n<strong>Day 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Thu 26 June 9 am &#8211; 5 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue: <\/strong>A hybrid event from\u00a0Susan Wakil Health Building, The University of Sydney, Camperdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:\u00a0<\/strong>$285 in-person; $150 online<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adcet.edu.au\/inclusive-teaching\/universal-design-for-learning\/udl-symposium-2025\" class=\"sc-button bg-red color-white\" target=\"_self\">\r\n\t\t\t   \t\t<span>Find out more about the symposium<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t    <\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/payments.utas.edu.au\/Register\/booking?UDS_ACTION=S1I&amp;UDS_ACTION_DATA=YypVBkBFLXBOXFMGRkJDdywgQgw8W0MbK0VGXXNFU0MIRy1V\" class=\"sc-button bg-red color-white\" target=\"_self\">\r\n\t\t\t   \t\t<span>Register to attend<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t    <\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Sydney and Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET) have partnered to bring you this year&#8217;s Universal Design for Learning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3314,"featured_media":23263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1368,2130],"tags":[2683,359,72,1992,2338],"coauthors":[2213],"class_list":["post-23234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assessment","category-inclusive-teaching","tag-designing-for-diversity","tag-diversity","tag-events","tag-udl","tag-universal-design-for-learning","post-item","post-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23234"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23835,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234\/revisions\/23835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}