The document discusses the concept of Universal Design for Learning and its application through a rotating peer notetaker strategy, highlighting its benefits such as peer learning, accessibility to missed content, and reducing the need for paid notetakers. Initial challenges with implementation included quality issues and inadequate support for students with disabilities. Recommendations include submitting notetaker contributions to instructors for quality assurance before posting on the D2L platform.

1. ACTION RESEARCH
Tinkering with Universal Design Ideas

2. What is Universal Design for Learning?

3. Rotating Peer Notetaker

4. Advantages?
■contribute to the learning of peers
■ access to missed material
■ see how others take notes
■eliminates the need for paid notetaker
■accommodation for a disability

5. Initial Problems
■Expected
■Unexpected

7. We recommend that notes be
submitted to the instructor for
posting on D2L.
This gives the instructor an
opportunity to do a “quality check”
before posting.

8. Rotating NoteTaking Fail

9. Action Research

10. ■ poor quality
■ do not aid students
with disabilities
■ weak number of
views
■ experience note taking
■ experience using new
D2L feature

13. New Outcomes
■ contribute to the learning (of peers ?)
■ access to missed material
■ model notetaking
■ eliminates the need for paid notetaker
■ accommodation for a disability
■ increase practice with D2l features

14. JENNEFER ROUSSEAU
JROUSSEAU@BOWVALLEYCOLLEGE.CA