The Australian Curriculum is currently under review and a key action for the Health and Physical Education curriculum is to review the language used to ensure the curriculum is inclusive of all learners. This session will highlight how the language we use, particularly when describing learning and achievement in movement activities, can be the difference between inclusion and exclusion of students. We will model strategies for re-thinking the language used to describe learning goals, using the UDL Framework as a reference point, to ensure all learners can be included in the curricula we design.

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Designing for Variability across the Higher Ed Curriculum is an interactive poster in which a spectrum of practitioners shares stories about how their UDL training has inspired them to redesign and reconceptualize the way they teach, the way they interact with students, and the way they think about the role of higher education in general. This repository showcases first-person accounts of the transformative potential of a UDL-based approach to higher education, offering specific examples of what UDL-informed practice looks like in disciplines as diverse as Composition, Nursing, Welding, and Graduate Studies. 

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a design framework that can inform how technology can be used to address learner variability. It creates a compelling context for teachers to integrate technology into their lessons to reduce barriers that arise from the learner’s interaction with the curriculum or environment. This resource provides some general recommendations based on a case-study of three teachers who partnered with a technology integration specialist to use the UDL Design Cycle to make decisions about addressing learner variability and integrating Speech Recognition Technology (SR) into the writing curriculum.

Implications for teacher implementation of technology through a UDL approach are discussed. This resource also describes how UDL case-study research was conducted in conjunction with the UDL Reporting Criteria (UDL RC), a set of guidelines for researchers and practitioners who are designing and reporting on UDL implementation.

Classroom educators from around the world share their stories of UDL implementation during the podcast, UDL in 15 Minutes.

Australia has embarked on the development of a curriculum for all students using a three-dimensional design. A challenge has been how to provide curriculum access for students with extensive needs. This resource will demonstrate how the application of principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the development of the Australian Curriculum has resulted in a framework that allows teachers the flexibility to personalize learning for all students.

Teacher preparation professionals, or those delivering professional development may find useful this Innovation Configuration (IC) matrix when introducing and teaching the UDL guidelines.  

Higher education professionals concerned with online learning may benefit from this lengthy article in the Journal of Educators Online when designing curriculum to ensure accessiblity to all students.