2. UNIVERSAL DESIGN OVERVIEW
Designing products and environments to be usable by all
people, without the need for specialized design or
adaptation that meet needs of people with a wide variety of
characteristics
How do educators design instruction to maximize learning
when some students may be:
• Ethnically/Racially Diverse
• Learning Style Diverse
• Non English Speaking
• Physically/Mentally Disabled
• Intellectually Gifted
Universal Design in the Education is about Inclusion

3. UNIVERSAL DESIGN INSTRUCTION
Question Educators must ask
1. How do students pick up on information?
 Multiple means of representation
2. How do students express what they learn?
 Multiple means of expression
3. How are students engaged?
 Multiple means of engagement
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What are the goals?
What are the materials?
What are the methods?
What are the means of assessment of learning?

4. UNIVERSAL DESIGN LEARNING EXAMPLES
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaSZqgr2eUM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I92QkPdvYRI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBR-oZ7Bhw

5. SOURCES
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/ud_edu.html
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/instruction.html
http://www.washington.edu/doit/CUDE/inst_sec.html
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/equal_access_udi.ht
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http://youtu.be/pGLTJw0GSxk