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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.
Image ©2007 BLH Photography. Used under CC BY licenses from Flickr.com
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.
Image ©2014 Thomas J. Tobin
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
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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
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Patrick Loftus (Moderator)
Marketing Assistant
3Play Media
Dr. Thomas Tobin
PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOT
Author and speaker on quality in distance education
Patrick Loftus
Marketing Assistant
3Play Media
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.
