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UDL Tips
Explore, download, and print these handy quick reads with tips based on the UDL framework. Use them today to make your learning environment more inclusive.
Key Questions to Consider When Planning Lessons
An alternate way to consider the UDL Guidelines is to look at some key questions that each Guideline answers. When planning a lesson or unit, consider these questions to ensure that the environment is flexible and inclusive of all learners.
CAST
2020
Five Things Educators Can Do to Buy Accessible
Edtech developers have been making significant advances in accessibility in response to states and districts that have made buying accessible a priority. This one-page document outlines five actions educators can take to ensure the procurement of accessible materials.
C. Curry
2018
UDL & the Learning Brain
What we know about the brain is central to the Universal Design for Learning Framework. Knowing key facts about the brain from a UDL perspective can help inform learning design to address learner variability. Find out more in this downloadable resource designed for educators.
CAST
2018
Technology Feature Briefs
These briefs are designed for educators, developers, and researchers to find out more about particular features within technology tools, how they’re used, and whether they might be effective in addressing different barriers within a technology environment.
Popular Resources
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Book
Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice
Meyer, Rose, and Gordon
2014In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced universal design for learning (UDL), a framework to improve teaching and learning. Based on new insights from the learning sciences and creative uses of ...
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UDL Tips for Assessments
CAST
2020Universal Design for Learning (UDL) encourages “assessment by design,” but what does that mean specifically for educators? How can we use the UDL framework to design and reflect on assessments?
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Book
Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning
D. H. Rose & A. Meyer
2002In this seminal book on Universal Design for Learning, Rose and Meyer lay out the three principles, show their origins in the learning sciences and brain-based research, and describe practical applications of the framework to classroom instruction.
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Article
Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation
T. Hall, et al.
2014Information on the theory and research behind differentiated instruction and its intersection with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is examined. The article begins with an introduction to differentiated instruction by defining …
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UDL Tips for Accessible Educational Materials
CAST
2023Accessibility is an important part of Universal Design for Learning, but how do you get started?
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UDL Tips for Developing Learning Goals
CAST
2020When we clarify what we want learners to accomplish, then we can select flexible assessments, methods, and materials that effectively support that goal.
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UDL Tips for Designing Learning Experiences
CAST
2020How can we design learning experiences so that they are meaningful and challenging for all learners?
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Article
UDL Unplugged: The Role of Technology in UDL
D. H. Rose, J. W. Gravel & Y. M. Domings
2010This article examines the question of whether technology is central to the foundations of UDL or whether UDL is useful as a pedagogical framework that goes beyond technology. The authors use the UDL guidelines as a structural framework through which to examine these questions.