Accessibility
Accessibility
Accessible Education
Accessible education is the process of designing courses and developing a teaching style to meet the needs of people from a variety of backgrounds, abilities and learning styles.
Universal Design for Learning: 10 Tips for Assessment
"Top 10 UDL Tips for Assessment" (CAST web page; pdf) outlines tips to "use the UDL framework to design and reflect on assessments" and [rovides questions by which an instructor can self-assess.
1. "Align assessment to elearning goals"
a. "When the learning goals are clear, assessments allow educators and learners to observe and measure whether learners have achieved the intended goal."
Universal Design for Learning: 10 Tips for Learning Goals
"Top 10 UDL Tips for Developing Learning Goals" (CAST web page; pdf) "discuss[es] learning goals from a UDL perspective," posing useful questions with which instructors can self-assess their stated learning objectives.
1. "Convey clear goals that everyone can understand"
a. "Standards- and curricular-based goals are often written using language that is difficult to understand and unpack."
Making Meaning with Digital Tools
Click the image above to go to a full-sized version of The Pedagogy Wheel which integrates the thinking levels of Bloom's Taxonomy with action verbs, learning activities, and iPad apps that can promote those activities.
