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presentation for the AHEAD - LINK - conference on UDL by SIHO, more details [email protected], www.siho.be/udl
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UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION:HOW TO IMPLEMENT?
Support Centre for Inclusive Higher Education (SIHO) BELGIUM
Katrien De Munck & Meggie Verstichele
WHO ARE YOU?
CONTENT
1. Context of SIHO
2. UDL- principles
3. How to start?
4. How to seduce?
5. How to sustain?
1. CONTEXT OF SIHO
WHERE IS THE STUDENT ?
2. UDL-PRINCIPLES
2.1 UNIVERSAL DESIGNIs our fysical environment
accessible?
2.2 UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING
Is our learning environment
accessible?
2.3 UD & UDL
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UD UDLFysical environment Learning environment
Fysical barriers Educational barriers
Proactive Proactive
Retrofitting
= expensive / difficult
Adjustments
= time-consuming / difficult
2.4 UDL-FUNDAMENTS: NEUROLOGICAL BASIS3 inter-related networks (Rose, Meyer, Hitchcock,
2005):Recognition
networkAffective network Strategical
network
What? Why? How?
Recognition and intake of information
Evaluation and setting priorities
Planning, executing and monitoring
2.5 FROM NEUROLOGY TO PRINCIPLESUDL-Principles for effective teaching
Recognition network
Strategical network
Affective network
Principle 1:
Offer informatio
n
Principle 2:
Action & expressio
n
Principle 3:
Engagement
3. HOW TO START?
3.1 GETTING INSPIRED
www.cast.org
http://udlonline.cast.org/home
3.2 INSPIRING HIGHER EDUCATION
UDL on the agenda in several occasions:
- events
- presentations
- newsletter and website
- …
- UDL-day with CAST
4. HOW TO SEDUCE?
HOW TO SEDUCE?
- giving concrete tips and relating it to all aspects of inclusion in higher education
- giving information about UDL in different ways
lectures, newsletters, presentation, training, academic and applied, referring to the UN-convention
developing a new website www.siho.be/udl
5. HOW TO SUSTAIN?
HOW TO SUSTAIN?
- engaging people in different waysCoachingICT-connectionICT-workshopsIntensive training-daysUDL-cartoon-contest
5.1 UDL-COACHING: HANDS-ON - if you could find 5 volunteers
- out of different contexts
- to apply UDL in their work
- name 1 thing that you teach which is going very well
- name 1 thing that you teach which is more difficult
UDL- COACHING
- For who?
- 4 coaching- moments:1. Theory and brainwriting2. UDL and course material3. UDL and ICT4. UDL and evaluation
5.2 ICT-CONNECTION
5.3 MULTIPLYING
- intensive trainingdays
- train the trainer (within coaching)
- monitoring coaching
- UDL-projects @ single institutions
DARE TO DREAM !
October 2011:
Idea 5 volunteers
March 2013:
> 70 in coaching
+ intensive days (60)
+ workshops
6. UDL-FACTS
6.1 WHAT IS UDL NOT?
• measures for a few students
• minimizing the goals or expectations
• a ‘magic tric’ or ‘fix’ for all students
• one prescribed formula
6.2 WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF UDL?
• Proactive way of working
• reaching all students, reaching a diverse audience
• offers tools to reflect about our way of teaching
Thank you for your attention!
Contact details:[email protected]@[email protected] and find us on