This tool is written for parents/caregivers to navigate and support their children’s learning at home. It was written in response to the shift to learning-at-home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic although the strategies are just as relevant now that most students in Australia have returned to school. The tool recognises the challenges and frustrations parents/caregivers and their children may face in making sense of the learning that has been sent home. This tool is also relevant to educators planning work during the COVID-19 pandemic or another situation that requires a student to be learning-at-home (e.g., recovering from surgery).

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a growing pedagogical approach. Recent years have seen an increase in references to UDL within educational law and policy as well as growing body of empirical research examining this approach. However, in spite of a focus on facilitating learning, the field has yet to come to a consenseus regarding the definition of learning. This paper seeks to examine various definitions of learning and proposes a neuropsychological definition for the puropse of developing agreement among UDL practioners and researchers. 

We recognize that quality course design is instrumental toward supporting student success. When an online learning environment is well designed, everyone achieves more, learns more, and is more equitably represented.

We recognize that many faculty do not necessarily know how to carry out accessible design. This course is intended to provide conceptual and theoretical framework and robust concrete practical strategies to guide faculty and instructional designers in building course material on Canvas according to the best practices of Universal Design for Learning to improve the accessibility and quality of learning experience for everyone.

ThinkUDL is a podcast developed and created by College STAR (Supporting Transition Access & Retention). The purpose of the podcast is to expose listenters to educational practitioners that are implementing UDL at all levels from novice to expert. ThinkUDL is hosted by Lillian Nave who is currently teaching at Appalachian State University. In hosting ThinkUDL, Lillian seeks to discover not just WHAT the guests she interviews are teaching, learning, guiding, and facilitating, but HOW they design and implement it, and WHY it even matters! Topics that have been discused on the show thus far include:

• Why Learn?
• How UDL Values Learners
• Making UDL Work For Everyone