Tips for Getting Your Colleagues to Adopt Universal Design for Learning

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Tips for Getting Your Colleagues to Adopt Universal Design for Learning

Dr. Thomas Tobin

PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOTAuthor and speaker on quality in distance education

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Tips for Getting Your Colleagues to

Adopt Universal Design for Learning

Thomas J. Tobin Author & speaker on quality

in distance education

Think of how your colleagues often respond when they hear “universal design for learning.”

What words, phrases, or feelings come to mind? Key one thing in the Questions window.

Image ©1977 LucasFilm, used with permission from starwarsscreencaps.com

[Han Solo: I got a bad feeling about this!]

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[Obi-Wan Kenobi: Luke, trust your feelings.]

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[Darth Vader: Release your anger!]

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[Yoda: No different! Only different in your mind.

You must unlearn what you have learned.]

Meet Reed Moore-Büx

Reed teaches

detective fiction

What Reed wants

his students to do

What his students

actually do

Reed is recasting his

course for mobile learners

Reed’s always-on course nightmare

Help Reed connect to his students who are on mobile devices.

What one strategy could he adopt to supplement—or even replace—his face-to-face teaching?

Share your ideas in the Questions window.

Let’s Help Reed

Universal Design for

Learning = +1 ...

… learner engagement

… representing info

… action choices

Wait a second...

UDL = access

(no matter why)

“We want a situation that is good for everybody . . . part of it is thinking about what has to happen at the level of design that makes accommodation less necessary.”

-- Sam Johnston, CAST

UDL? Yeah, We Got That.

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Reed’s Video

Five strategies for UDL

Strategy 1: start with text.

Strategy 2: make alternatives.

Strategy 3: let ‘em do it their way.

= =

Strategy 4: go step by step.

Strategy 5: set content free.

Checking in with Reed

1.Start new design processes with text.

2.Create alternatives for all multimedia.

3.Design alternate ways for learners to demonstrate each course objective.

4.Break up tasks into separate components.

5.Expand, document, and share interactions in online courses using free or low-cost tools.

3 Radical Shifts = Campus UDL Buy-In

1. Shift conversations away from disability, toward access & tech.

2. Shift to a “plus 1” UDL mindset.

3. Shift away from training faculty, toward support staff & admins.

Image ©1980 LucasFilm, used with permission from starwarsscreencaps.com

[Yoda: No more training you require.

Already know you that which you need.]

The need to make changes

is not always this obvious.

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Image ©2014 Thomas J. Tobin

Take-Aways

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Academic integrity

Accessibility & UDL

Copyright & intellectual property

Evaluation of teaching practices

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Dr. Thomas Tobin

PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOT

Author and speaker on quality in distance education

Patrick Loftus

Marketing Assistant

3Play Media

patrick@3playmedia.com

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Tips for Getting Your Colleagues to Adopt Universal Design for Learning

Dr. Thomas Tobin

PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOTAuthor and speaker on quality in distance education

www.3playmedia.comtwitter: @3playmedialive tweet: #a11y

Type questions in the control panel during the presentation

This presentation is being recorded and will be available for replay

To view live captions, please follow the link in the chat window

Patrick Loftus (Moderator)

Marketing Assistant

3Play Media

patrick@3playmedia.com

Dr. Thomas Tobin

PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOT

Author and speaker on quality in distance education

Patrick Loftus

Marketing Assistant

3Play Media

patrick@3playmedia.com

Q&A

Register for upcoming webinars at:

http://www.3playmedia.com/webinars/

Upcoming Webinars

Feb 2: A Centralized Approach to EIT Accessibility

Feb 9: The State of Captioning in Higher Ed

Feb 16: Accessibility at Blackboard

Feb 23: Best Practices for Accessible Lecture Videos

live tweet: #a11y @3playmedia

Please type your questions into the window in your control panel.

A recording of this webinar will be available for replay.

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