The document discusses eTutoring collaboratives that provide online tutoring services through a consortium model. It describes several existing eTutoring programs in different regions that involve partnerships between multiple colleges and universities. These collaboratives aim to address the need for supporting off-campus students in a more cost-effective way than individual institutions could achieve alone. They allow participating schools to combine their tutoring resources onto a single online platform. The document also outlines BCcampus' perspective on developing an eTutoring collaborative in Canada to provide scalable and sustainable online tutoring as a shared service across institutions.
Steven D'Agustino discusses moving education online at Fordham University and emphasizes thinking about teaching approaches rather than just tools. When classes moved online, spontaneous academic conversations between students and instructors were lost. However, some faculty are using tools like screen capture software in new ways to provide audio commentary on essays, making the feedback experience more engaging. D'Agustino also notes the role of instructors is shifting from expert imparting knowledge to more of a guide providing feedback, context and interaction. The key is to promote interaction through technology choices.
Avoiding Extinction: Re-Skilling the 21st Century Academic LibrarianClaire Sewell
Presentation given at Dawson Day 2018 looking at the background of those working in scholarly communication and how academic librarians can ensure that they and their skills remain relevant in the future.
The good news about tech and student mental healthJisc
The document discusses how technology can enhance student well-being and support at universities. It notes that sustained leadership is needed to make well-being a priority. Technology can help by getting important messages to students, enhancing existing support, enabling self-support and independence, and improving access to courses. Top tips are provided for making teaching resources and documents more inclusive through online presentations, accessible media options, self-assessment opportunities, and linked differentiated resources.
This document discusses methods for evaluating the impact of financial education programs. It describes using logic models to plan for evaluation by determining inputs, outputs, and outcomes. Common evaluation methods include surveys, focus groups, knowledge tests, and the critical incident technique for collecting stories from participants. Key outcomes to measure include changes in knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and conditions. The document also discusses calculating return on investment and conducting cost-benefit analysis to demonstrate the value of programs.
Making Learning Accessible – Solving A Complex PuzzleLearningCafe
Our workforce is becoming more diverse with employees facing different kinds of barriers to Learning. These barriers to Learning include not only physical ones such as vision, hearing and motor disabilities but also cognitive disabilities and literacy. The combinations and variations may be too numerous to cater for using the “one size fits all” design approach.
Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, Australian Government agencies are required to ensure information and services are provided in a non-discriminatory accessible manner by implementing the Web content accessibility guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). Private sector is also choosing to address accessibility requirements as part of social corporate responsibility.
The challenge for Learning professionals is to designing accessible Learning including:
a more technically challenging design and development approach.requiring a bigger budget.
BC Inclusion Presentation. Frederic Fovet From curiosity to buy inFrederic Fovet
The document discusses universal design for learning (UDL) and challenges with implementing it on an institutional level. It begins with introducing the speaker and defining UDL. It then notes that while UDL is popular in Canada, few institutions have successfully scaled it up in a strategic, sustainable way. The rest of the document discusses barriers to widespread UDL implementation, like a lack of ownership and strategic planning, and proposes using an ecological analysis to better understand an institution's context before developing an implementation plan tailored to that environment. The goal is to avoid false starts and help advocates avoid burnout by strategically navigating change management.
Implementation of Blackboard Communities at Wilmington University (Adam Voyton)Adam Voyton
The Blackboard Communities license enables powerful new features within Blackboard. Get an inside look at Wilmington University's implementation and support processes that have been developed over the last three years. Using these flexible tools, you can improve how your institution communicates with specific segments of the students, staff, and faculty. Learn how department leaders, program chairs, and club advisers have created learning communities to communicate and engage with key audiences. The project plan and usage data will be shared for a unique organization named the Online Student Association; this virtual community allows participants to network with other students, faculty, and staff in a relaxed atmosphere outside of the classroom. Lesson learned and sample communications will also be shared so your institution can get up and running with Communities fast. This session will show you how to better leverage your LMS as a customizable online portal.Speaker: Adam Voyton, Instructional Technology Project Specialist, Wilmington University
The document discusses eTutoring collaboratives that provide online tutoring services through a consortium model. It describes several existing eTutoring programs in different regions that involve partnerships between multiple colleges and universities. These collaboratives aim to address the need for supporting off-campus students in a more cost-effective way than individual institutions could achieve alone. They allow participating schools to combine their tutoring resources onto a single online platform. The document also outlines BCcampus' perspective on developing an eTutoring collaborative in Canada to provide scalable and sustainable online tutoring as a shared service across institutions.
Steven D'Agustino discusses moving education online at Fordham University and emphasizes thinking about teaching approaches rather than just tools. When classes moved online, spontaneous academic conversations between students and instructors were lost. However, some faculty are using tools like screen capture software in new ways to provide audio commentary on essays, making the feedback experience more engaging. D'Agustino also notes the role of instructors is shifting from expert imparting knowledge to more of a guide providing feedback, context and interaction. The key is to promote interaction through technology choices.
Avoiding Extinction: Re-Skilling the 21st Century Academic LibrarianClaire Sewell
Presentation given at Dawson Day 2018 looking at the background of those working in scholarly communication and how academic librarians can ensure that they and their skills remain relevant in the future.
The good news about tech and student mental healthJisc
The document discusses how technology can enhance student well-being and support at universities. It notes that sustained leadership is needed to make well-being a priority. Technology can help by getting important messages to students, enhancing existing support, enabling self-support and independence, and improving access to courses. Top tips are provided for making teaching resources and documents more inclusive through online presentations, accessible media options, self-assessment opportunities, and linked differentiated resources.
This document discusses methods for evaluating the impact of financial education programs. It describes using logic models to plan for evaluation by determining inputs, outputs, and outcomes. Common evaluation methods include surveys, focus groups, knowledge tests, and the critical incident technique for collecting stories from participants. Key outcomes to measure include changes in knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and conditions. The document also discusses calculating return on investment and conducting cost-benefit analysis to demonstrate the value of programs.
Making Learning Accessible – Solving A Complex PuzzleLearningCafe
Our workforce is becoming more diverse with employees facing different kinds of barriers to Learning. These barriers to Learning include not only physical ones such as vision, hearing and motor disabilities but also cognitive disabilities and literacy. The combinations and variations may be too numerous to cater for using the “one size fits all” design approach.
Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, Australian Government agencies are required to ensure information and services are provided in a non-discriminatory accessible manner by implementing the Web content accessibility guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). Private sector is also choosing to address accessibility requirements as part of social corporate responsibility.
The challenge for Learning professionals is to designing accessible Learning including:
a more technically challenging design and development approach.requiring a bigger budget.
BC Inclusion Presentation. Frederic Fovet From curiosity to buy inFrederic Fovet
The document discusses universal design for learning (UDL) and challenges with implementing it on an institutional level. It begins with introducing the speaker and defining UDL. It then notes that while UDL is popular in Canada, few institutions have successfully scaled it up in a strategic, sustainable way. The rest of the document discusses barriers to widespread UDL implementation, like a lack of ownership and strategic planning, and proposes using an ecological analysis to better understand an institution's context before developing an implementation plan tailored to that environment. The goal is to avoid false starts and help advocates avoid burnout by strategically navigating change management.
Implementation of Blackboard Communities at Wilmington University (Adam Voyton)Adam Voyton
The Blackboard Communities license enables powerful new features within Blackboard. Get an inside look at Wilmington University's implementation and support processes that have been developed over the last three years. Using these flexible tools, you can improve how your institution communicates with specific segments of the students, staff, and faculty. Learn how department leaders, program chairs, and club advisers have created learning communities to communicate and engage with key audiences. The project plan and usage data will be shared for a unique organization named the Online Student Association; this virtual community allows participants to network with other students, faculty, and staff in a relaxed atmosphere outside of the classroom. Lesson learned and sample communications will also be shared so your institution can get up and running with Communities fast. This session will show you how to better leverage your LMS as a customizable online portal.Speaker: Adam Voyton, Instructional Technology Project Specialist, Wilmington University
This document summarizes efforts to improve community college completion rates in the United States. It outlines that America now ranks 10th in college attainment among young adults. Only 1/3 of associate's students earn a degree in 3 years. Both the federal and state governments have launched initiatives to increase the number of community college graduates by 5 million by 2020 through increased funding, performance metrics, and policies to reduce time to degree. The document presents data on the growing skills gap and job requirements calling for more Americans with postsecondary credentials.
This document outlines steps for STC communities to harness student power by tapping into student members and recruiting new student members. It provides background on STC's student outreach initiatives and Community Affairs Committee. A 7-step approach is presented: 1) Find existing student members, 2) Recruit from nearby student chapters, 3) Check for tech comm programs locally, 4) Partner with Sigma Tau Delta honor society, 5) Use materials from presentations to Sigma Tau Delta, 6) Sign up new members, and 7) Engage student members in projects and mentoring. Attending part 2 of the presentation is encouraged for learning how to establish formal student mentoring programs.
Developing Brand Identity for e-Learning Programs through Online Human Touchstricoff
Dr. Kristen Betts presented on developing an online brand identity for eLearning programs through online human touch. She discussed national data projections showing growing online enrollments due to economic and demographic factors. This presents an opportunity for universities to develop strong brands by meeting student needs through quality online programs and services, personalized communication, and community engagement. Data from Drexel University's online MSHE program demonstrated high student satisfaction and retention resulting from strategies like using students' names, integrated learning experiences, and bringing the campus experience online. Developing a distinctive brand focused on quality, engagement, and meeting student expectations was presented as key to program sustainability.
Lauren Havens and Kelly Clayton are Wilmington University's Online Student Navigators, http://wilmu.edu/navigator. This presentation was first shared at the
2015 Northeast e-Learning Consortium, http://northeastelearning.org/2015-archives/. They discuss how the university comes together to support online students, how they assist our online students, the strategy, our process and next steps.
The School Life panel at the VietAbroader Conference featured a discussion on factors to consider when selecting colleges in the US. Guest speakers shared their diverse experiences, with some knowing their intended majors before attending and others undecided. Special programs, extracurricular opportunities, alumni networks, climate, and faculty resources were some of the criteria discussed. The speakers represented various university types and encouraged participants to explore options without rigid plans during their educational journey.
The #Selfie : Modeling Your Online Persona to Support Student Success
#NACADAmelb Conference 2015, Melbourne, Australia June 26, 2015
#AdvSelfie digital handout: http://bit.ly/advselfie and Slide Deck
Our students are sharing their lives online with friends, family, and peers. Often times they’re willing to share their lives with us too. But many advisors are hesitant to heed the invitation. Developing your own online persona can help to create an open atmosphere for starting conversations, addressing mental health issues, and growing a network of support. So... go ahead, take that selfie. Post it up and put it online... you may be surprised what comes of it!
Speaker: Dale Munday, digital learning facilitator, University of Lancaster.
Enhancing the idea of the VLE to provide an engaging experience is is key for sustaining progression with education technology. Creating rich, persistent conversations makes learning more visible and accessible to the entire class. Teachers can engage students in project-based learning with text, video, and voice using integrations. Harnessing student social interactions allows educators to enhance the learning and provide an engaging space to assess and feedback.
This session will demonstrate opportunities to empower students while helping them develop the skills they'll need to be successful in the future.
Panel: Christy Jones, CAE, Director of Membership, American Association of University Women; J. John Mancini, President, Association for Information
and Image Management; Michael Mathy, Administrator, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
“Engagement” is one of today’s big buzz words. There’s a Web proliferation of new communities, new authority models, and increasing expectations
and distractions. But what does it take to build and sustain true connections around your association? Panelists will expose various online methods,
multi-networks, guiding principles, best practices, and virtual worlds that support outreach, education, new business models, next generation, varied
demographics and personas, a broader reach, member services, and awareness. They will also share alternatives to information-heavy Web sites and illustrate their tools for engagement, collaboration, and attracting and retaining new members.
Social Strategies for Successful Student EngagementSalesforce.org
Engage in a discussion about how leading institutions are applying social technologies to attract new students, engage and retain their existing student population, and inspire and re-connect with alumni.
The document summarizes an intercultural student exchange program in Galway, Ireland that focused on service learning, civic engagement, and intercultural interaction.
The program aimed to provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge through community service placements, develop skills like teamwork and leadership, and promote cross-cultural understanding. Students engaged in workshops and reflections on key concepts of service learning and civic engagement.
Through their community placements at organizations like the Galway Traveller Movement, students gained hands-on experiences that supported their personal and academic growth. They explored how to combine community needs with academic goals and incorporate diverse perspectives.
The document discusses hopes to expand service learning programs at participating universities, such as through a
From curiosity to systemic implementation: Making UDL buy-in a strategic inst...Frederic Fovet
This document summarizes a presentation on implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in tertiary education. The presentation explores moving UDL implementation beyond just pedagogical considerations to an institutional strategic reality. It identifies the need to engage campus stakeholders in discussions around how to implement UDL and addresses strategic and organizational challenges. The presentation examines how to effectively showcase UDL to colleagues, debunk myths, and gauge the complexity of UDL implementation through an ecological lens that considers the unique context of each institution. It also discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted attitudes towards inclusion and UDL.
Breaking free of teacher-centric beliefs about assessment Using Universal De...Frederic Fovet
This keynote presentation explored using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to reframe assessment practices in higher education to be more inclusive. The presenter discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted tensions in traditional assessment and created an opportunity to implement more authentic, inclusive models. The presentation modeled UDL principles by encouraging interaction and providing multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement. Group activities had attendees explore barriers in assessment and apply the UDL framework to redesign assessments and reduce tensions for diverse learners. The presenter aimed to provide a structured yet progressive journey towards fully inclusive evaluation through a UDL lens.
Keynote Presentation at the IT Sligo UDL Conference Frederic Fovet may 26Frederic Fovet
While there have been bold developments in the use of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the post-secondary sector over the last ten years on both sides of the Atlantic, much of these efforts have focused on showcasing the pedagogical benefits of its implementation. This discourse has remained a little naïve when it comes to management of change and organizational leadership. In the worst case scenarios, naivety has given way to actual clumsiness, which has been counter-productive in getting buy-in from faculty.
This session will explore the challenges and opportunities of UDL implementation across post-secondary campuses and give full consideration to the numerous organizational variables which impact this process. It will argue that many of the UDL initiatives witnessed in Higher Education over the years have been doomed to stagnation or to a process of slow death because there has been a lack of strategic reflection at the start of these processes. It is an opportune time to learn from these lessons, and to devise blue prints for the strategic management of UDL integration that acknowledge the complexity of the post-secondary landscape.
A new dramatic set of variables now affects this process of implementation: the COVID-19 crisis has irretrievably changed the realities of Higher Education and its modus operandi. It would be unrealistic to hope to ever return to a pre-pandemic ‘normal’, and in many ways the COVID crisis has been the catharsis for radical changes which had been a long time coming in a destabilized, hyper-competitive, and mostly unsustainable landscape. This complex and charged climate will appear, to many, as rife with hurdles when it comes to UDL implementation. The last year and a half has indeed seen a shift back to medical model practices and a loss of ground for may inclusion advocates. It will nevertheless be argued in the presentation that the COVID pandemic has also offered unprecedented opportunities to position UDL as a sustainable framework well suited to the post-pandemic reality.
Embracing equity in a public health emergency: the role of UDL in guiding instructors as they adapt to an unprecedented reliance on online and hybrid teaching.
This document discusses considerations for providing student support services for online learners. It notes that 1/3 of college students are now taking at least one online course. The typical online student is a 33-year-old working woman pursuing a business degree. It emphasizes that online students expect support services that allow them to succeed, from recruitment through graduation. A framework is proposed that incorporates intake, intervention, support, transition and measurement phases to support students regardless of location. It recommends reframing traditional services to meet online students' needs and committing financial resources to distance learning support.
Tackling the two solitudes. Bridging the conflicting lived realities of facu...Frederic Fovet
The lived experiences of faulty and accessibility service providers can vary significantly in higher education. This interactive live session will create an opportunity for a multidisciplinary reflection around the optimal ways to bridge the conflicting visions and experiences these two groups of key stakeholders have in relation to UDL adoption in the post-secondary classroom.
The term ‘two solitudes’ is often used in Canada to describe the cultural isolation and suspicion French and English communities develop in relation to each other. This concept will be used in this live interactive session to encourage participants to reflect on the differing views, visions and lived experiences of faculty and accessibility service personnel in relation to the adoption and implementation of UDL in the post-secondary sector. It will create an opportunity for a multidisciplinary reflection around the optimal ways to bridge the conflicting visions and experiences these two groups of key stakeholders have in relation to UDL adoption in the post-secondary classroom. This facilitated collective brainstorming session will support participants as they seek to (i) understand the cause of these conflicting subjective realities in relation to inclusion in the classroom, (ii) reflect on practices that may bridge these conflicting views, (iii) formulate calls for action which may be useful to campuses to nurture multistakeholder involvement as they promote UDL implementation.
Hea workshop on using social media in learning and teachingClaudia Megele
This document discusses using digital storytelling to promote collaborative practice between different professionals in a continuing professional development module. Students in the module create a short digital story to analyze a current issue and plan for service improvement. This allows professionals from different fields to work together on shared problems to improve outcomes for service users. An evaluation found that the digital storytelling approach created a level playing field for collaboration and increased understanding between professions. The document argues for better promoting interprofessional education and practice through opportunities for reflection in both organizations and universities.
Addressing the needs of diverse learners in online and blended learning with ...Frederic Fovet
There has been growing but sporadic interest around Universal Design for Learning across the post-secondary sector in most jurisdictions over the last decade. This, in itself is encouraging and there is no doubt that the notion that inclusion must be achieved through proactive inclusive design rather than through retrofitting and accommodations is finally gaining in popularity and visibility.
UDL work, however, has long entertained an ambivalent and complex relationship with the rest of the scholarship on technology, blended learning and online learning. While the overlap between the UDL literature and these other bodies of practice is prima facie obvious and rich, in the field it has been somewhat difficult strategically to get buy-in for UDL from the practitioners and researchers traditionally involved in technology rich pedagogy.
The COVID pandemic and the pivot to online teaching and learning have shaken this status quo and offered unprecedented opportunities to demonstrate and showcase the relevance of UDL when it comes to systemically addressing learner diversity in online and blended pedagogy.
The pandemic, however, has also further muddied the waters, and disrupted many of the relationships between stakeholders in academia. The disruption has been such that it becomes challenging at times to foresee what lessons have been learnt from the pandemic and what new practices are likely to emerge from the COVID crisis. The presentation will examine what the future of UDL implementation within the growth of online and blended learning might look like in this disrupted and quickly changing landscape. It will invite participants to engage in lucid assessments of the opportunities and challenges the post-pandemic era gives rise to in this area.
The COVID pandemic has forced onto schools an overnight pivot to virtual delivery and assessment. This emergency provisions and their online component have remained a part of the reality of teaching and learning for large parts of the last two years. Innovative and emergent uses of technology in the classroom have blossomed rapidly and found a rich and opportune context for growth. This two-year period of change and experimentation has now created an unprecedented thirst for the long-term adoption and integration of digital solutions in teaching and learning – be they virtual, hybrid of face to face.
Much of the reflection that has occurred around the use and integration of technology and virtual tools in teaching and learning, however, has ignored learner diversity, accessibility, and inclusion. The time constraints, exceptional circumstances of the pivot, the urgency of the measures, and the understanding arrangements were temporary have contributed to a certain laissez faire in terms of accessibility. The legal notion of undue hardship has explicitly been used by many schools and school districts to circumvent legislation on inclusion and human rights provisions which normally guarantee accessibility to learning.
This session will first examine the various concerns regarding inclusion and accessibility which have arisen during the pandemic in relation to digital learning. The presentation will then analyze the inherent risks that are present in relation to social justice and inclusion, as educational organizations transition back to face-to-face instruction and seek to retain the digital flavour that has blossomed over the last two years. The third section of this paper is a call for action which delineates the safeguards that must be in place as digital transformation of teaching and learning gains momentum in the post-pandemic landscape.
This document summarizes efforts to improve community college completion rates in the United States. It outlines that America now ranks 10th in college attainment among young adults. Only 1/3 of associate's students earn a degree in 3 years. Both the federal and state governments have launched initiatives to increase the number of community college graduates by 5 million by 2020 through increased funding, performance metrics, and policies to reduce time to degree. The document presents data on the growing skills gap and job requirements calling for more Americans with postsecondary credentials.
This document outlines steps for STC communities to harness student power by tapping into student members and recruiting new student members. It provides background on STC's student outreach initiatives and Community Affairs Committee. A 7-step approach is presented: 1) Find existing student members, 2) Recruit from nearby student chapters, 3) Check for tech comm programs locally, 4) Partner with Sigma Tau Delta honor society, 5) Use materials from presentations to Sigma Tau Delta, 6) Sign up new members, and 7) Engage student members in projects and mentoring. Attending part 2 of the presentation is encouraged for learning how to establish formal student mentoring programs.
Developing Brand Identity for e-Learning Programs through Online Human Touchstricoff
Dr. Kristen Betts presented on developing an online brand identity for eLearning programs through online human touch. She discussed national data projections showing growing online enrollments due to economic and demographic factors. This presents an opportunity for universities to develop strong brands by meeting student needs through quality online programs and services, personalized communication, and community engagement. Data from Drexel University's online MSHE program demonstrated high student satisfaction and retention resulting from strategies like using students' names, integrated learning experiences, and bringing the campus experience online. Developing a distinctive brand focused on quality, engagement, and meeting student expectations was presented as key to program sustainability.
Lauren Havens and Kelly Clayton are Wilmington University's Online Student Navigators, http://wilmu.edu/navigator. This presentation was first shared at the
2015 Northeast e-Learning Consortium, http://northeastelearning.org/2015-archives/. They discuss how the university comes together to support online students, how they assist our online students, the strategy, our process and next steps.
The School Life panel at the VietAbroader Conference featured a discussion on factors to consider when selecting colleges in the US. Guest speakers shared their diverse experiences, with some knowing their intended majors before attending and others undecided. Special programs, extracurricular opportunities, alumni networks, climate, and faculty resources were some of the criteria discussed. The speakers represented various university types and encouraged participants to explore options without rigid plans during their educational journey.
The #Selfie : Modeling Your Online Persona to Support Student Success
#NACADAmelb Conference 2015, Melbourne, Australia June 26, 2015
#AdvSelfie digital handout: http://bit.ly/advselfie and Slide Deck
Our students are sharing their lives online with friends, family, and peers. Often times they’re willing to share their lives with us too. But many advisors are hesitant to heed the invitation. Developing your own online persona can help to create an open atmosphere for starting conversations, addressing mental health issues, and growing a network of support. So... go ahead, take that selfie. Post it up and put it online... you may be surprised what comes of it!
Speaker: Dale Munday, digital learning facilitator, University of Lancaster.
Enhancing the idea of the VLE to provide an engaging experience is is key for sustaining progression with education technology. Creating rich, persistent conversations makes learning more visible and accessible to the entire class. Teachers can engage students in project-based learning with text, video, and voice using integrations. Harnessing student social interactions allows educators to enhance the learning and provide an engaging space to assess and feedback.
This session will demonstrate opportunities to empower students while helping them develop the skills they'll need to be successful in the future.
Panel: Christy Jones, CAE, Director of Membership, American Association of University Women; J. John Mancini, President, Association for Information
and Image Management; Michael Mathy, Administrator, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
“Engagement” is one of today’s big buzz words. There’s a Web proliferation of new communities, new authority models, and increasing expectations
and distractions. But what does it take to build and sustain true connections around your association? Panelists will expose various online methods,
multi-networks, guiding principles, best practices, and virtual worlds that support outreach, education, new business models, next generation, varied
demographics and personas, a broader reach, member services, and awareness. They will also share alternatives to information-heavy Web sites and illustrate their tools for engagement, collaboration, and attracting and retaining new members.
Social Strategies for Successful Student EngagementSalesforce.org
Engage in a discussion about how leading institutions are applying social technologies to attract new students, engage and retain their existing student population, and inspire and re-connect with alumni.
The document summarizes an intercultural student exchange program in Galway, Ireland that focused on service learning, civic engagement, and intercultural interaction.
The program aimed to provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge through community service placements, develop skills like teamwork and leadership, and promote cross-cultural understanding. Students engaged in workshops and reflections on key concepts of service learning and civic engagement.
Through their community placements at organizations like the Galway Traveller Movement, students gained hands-on experiences that supported their personal and academic growth. They explored how to combine community needs with academic goals and incorporate diverse perspectives.
The document discusses hopes to expand service learning programs at participating universities, such as through a
From curiosity to systemic implementation: Making UDL buy-in a strategic inst...Frederic Fovet
This document summarizes a presentation on implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in tertiary education. The presentation explores moving UDL implementation beyond just pedagogical considerations to an institutional strategic reality. It identifies the need to engage campus stakeholders in discussions around how to implement UDL and addresses strategic and organizational challenges. The presentation examines how to effectively showcase UDL to colleagues, debunk myths, and gauge the complexity of UDL implementation through an ecological lens that considers the unique context of each institution. It also discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted attitudes towards inclusion and UDL.
Breaking free of teacher-centric beliefs about assessment Using Universal De...Frederic Fovet
This keynote presentation explored using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to reframe assessment practices in higher education to be more inclusive. The presenter discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted tensions in traditional assessment and created an opportunity to implement more authentic, inclusive models. The presentation modeled UDL principles by encouraging interaction and providing multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement. Group activities had attendees explore barriers in assessment and apply the UDL framework to redesign assessments and reduce tensions for diverse learners. The presenter aimed to provide a structured yet progressive journey towards fully inclusive evaluation through a UDL lens.
Keynote Presentation at the IT Sligo UDL Conference Frederic Fovet may 26Frederic Fovet
While there have been bold developments in the use of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the post-secondary sector over the last ten years on both sides of the Atlantic, much of these efforts have focused on showcasing the pedagogical benefits of its implementation. This discourse has remained a little naïve when it comes to management of change and organizational leadership. In the worst case scenarios, naivety has given way to actual clumsiness, which has been counter-productive in getting buy-in from faculty.
This session will explore the challenges and opportunities of UDL implementation across post-secondary campuses and give full consideration to the numerous organizational variables which impact this process. It will argue that many of the UDL initiatives witnessed in Higher Education over the years have been doomed to stagnation or to a process of slow death because there has been a lack of strategic reflection at the start of these processes. It is an opportune time to learn from these lessons, and to devise blue prints for the strategic management of UDL integration that acknowledge the complexity of the post-secondary landscape.
A new dramatic set of variables now affects this process of implementation: the COVID-19 crisis has irretrievably changed the realities of Higher Education and its modus operandi. It would be unrealistic to hope to ever return to a pre-pandemic ‘normal’, and in many ways the COVID crisis has been the catharsis for radical changes which had been a long time coming in a destabilized, hyper-competitive, and mostly unsustainable landscape. This complex and charged climate will appear, to many, as rife with hurdles when it comes to UDL implementation. The last year and a half has indeed seen a shift back to medical model practices and a loss of ground for may inclusion advocates. It will nevertheless be argued in the presentation that the COVID pandemic has also offered unprecedented opportunities to position UDL as a sustainable framework well suited to the post-pandemic reality.
Embracing equity in a public health emergency: the role of UDL in guiding instructors as they adapt to an unprecedented reliance on online and hybrid teaching.
This document discusses considerations for providing student support services for online learners. It notes that 1/3 of college students are now taking at least one online course. The typical online student is a 33-year-old working woman pursuing a business degree. It emphasizes that online students expect support services that allow them to succeed, from recruitment through graduation. A framework is proposed that incorporates intake, intervention, support, transition and measurement phases to support students regardless of location. It recommends reframing traditional services to meet online students' needs and committing financial resources to distance learning support.
Tackling the two solitudes. Bridging the conflicting lived realities of facu...Frederic Fovet
The lived experiences of faulty and accessibility service providers can vary significantly in higher education. This interactive live session will create an opportunity for a multidisciplinary reflection around the optimal ways to bridge the conflicting visions and experiences these two groups of key stakeholders have in relation to UDL adoption in the post-secondary classroom.
The term ‘two solitudes’ is often used in Canada to describe the cultural isolation and suspicion French and English communities develop in relation to each other. This concept will be used in this live interactive session to encourage participants to reflect on the differing views, visions and lived experiences of faculty and accessibility service personnel in relation to the adoption and implementation of UDL in the post-secondary sector. It will create an opportunity for a multidisciplinary reflection around the optimal ways to bridge the conflicting visions and experiences these two groups of key stakeholders have in relation to UDL adoption in the post-secondary classroom. This facilitated collective brainstorming session will support participants as they seek to (i) understand the cause of these conflicting subjective realities in relation to inclusion in the classroom, (ii) reflect on practices that may bridge these conflicting views, (iii) formulate calls for action which may be useful to campuses to nurture multistakeholder involvement as they promote UDL implementation.
Hea workshop on using social media in learning and teachingClaudia Megele
This document discusses using digital storytelling to promote collaborative practice between different professionals in a continuing professional development module. Students in the module create a short digital story to analyze a current issue and plan for service improvement. This allows professionals from different fields to work together on shared problems to improve outcomes for service users. An evaluation found that the digital storytelling approach created a level playing field for collaboration and increased understanding between professions. The document argues for better promoting interprofessional education and practice through opportunities for reflection in both organizations and universities.
Addressing the needs of diverse learners in online and blended learning with ...Frederic Fovet
There has been growing but sporadic interest around Universal Design for Learning across the post-secondary sector in most jurisdictions over the last decade. This, in itself is encouraging and there is no doubt that the notion that inclusion must be achieved through proactive inclusive design rather than through retrofitting and accommodations is finally gaining in popularity and visibility.
UDL work, however, has long entertained an ambivalent and complex relationship with the rest of the scholarship on technology, blended learning and online learning. While the overlap between the UDL literature and these other bodies of practice is prima facie obvious and rich, in the field it has been somewhat difficult strategically to get buy-in for UDL from the practitioners and researchers traditionally involved in technology rich pedagogy.
The COVID pandemic and the pivot to online teaching and learning have shaken this status quo and offered unprecedented opportunities to demonstrate and showcase the relevance of UDL when it comes to systemically addressing learner diversity in online and blended pedagogy.
The pandemic, however, has also further muddied the waters, and disrupted many of the relationships between stakeholders in academia. The disruption has been such that it becomes challenging at times to foresee what lessons have been learnt from the pandemic and what new practices are likely to emerge from the COVID crisis. The presentation will examine what the future of UDL implementation within the growth of online and blended learning might look like in this disrupted and quickly changing landscape. It will invite participants to engage in lucid assessments of the opportunities and challenges the post-pandemic era gives rise to in this area.
The COVID pandemic has forced onto schools an overnight pivot to virtual delivery and assessment. This emergency provisions and their online component have remained a part of the reality of teaching and learning for large parts of the last two years. Innovative and emergent uses of technology in the classroom have blossomed rapidly and found a rich and opportune context for growth. This two-year period of change and experimentation has now created an unprecedented thirst for the long-term adoption and integration of digital solutions in teaching and learning – be they virtual, hybrid of face to face.
Much of the reflection that has occurred around the use and integration of technology and virtual tools in teaching and learning, however, has ignored learner diversity, accessibility, and inclusion. The time constraints, exceptional circumstances of the pivot, the urgency of the measures, and the understanding arrangements were temporary have contributed to a certain laissez faire in terms of accessibility. The legal notion of undue hardship has explicitly been used by many schools and school districts to circumvent legislation on inclusion and human rights provisions which normally guarantee accessibility to learning.
This session will first examine the various concerns regarding inclusion and accessibility which have arisen during the pandemic in relation to digital learning. The presentation will then analyze the inherent risks that are present in relation to social justice and inclusion, as educational organizations transition back to face-to-face instruction and seek to retain the digital flavour that has blossomed over the last two years. The third section of this paper is a call for action which delineates the safeguards that must be in place as digital transformation of teaching and learning gains momentum in the post-pandemic landscape.
Keynote presentation at the Life Education conference, Te Pae Otautahi - July 2022. Exploring the drivers and future directions for the organisation in a hybrid world
As teachers and students in NZ begin their 2022 school year the presence of Omicron threatens to disrupt their plans. To be best prepared, schools must consider a plan for hybrid learning - which could have much longer lasting benefits than simply addressing the immediate concerns.
UDL – Where the buck stops! - In the change to a UDL model, who does what? Presented at the AHEAD 2018 Conference - Let’s Bring the Elephant into the Room! - Reshaping the inclusive environment in further & higher education
Presentation given for the National College Learning Center Association
In these unprecedented times, the face of higher education is rapidly changing, and our learning centers must adapt to find ways to help our students (the privileged and underprivileged) engage effectively with technology. The realities of how we support students and the services we offer them must adapt to the current shifts to online learning in their content courses. We must expand upon existing online services and/or develop new ones. We must also support/train our staff members to manage the new ways in which our learning centers must operate.
Learning centers professionals are going to have to think of ways to deliver services 100% online. We need to think about our staff (students and professionals) and how we train them as well as the ways in which we engage our students who might be struggling with the demands of shifting to new modes of learning. Join this evolving conversation in one or both webinars:
Part 1 - Identifying Immediate Needs - this week (3/20/2020)
How we can triage and respond in real time to a rapidly evolving change to our operations?
Part 2 - Planning for the Long-term - next week (3/27/2020)
How do we reflect, assess, resource for sustainability, and plan for future change?
This document outlines a focus group consultation on developing a shared vision of employability at DkIT. The consultation aims to engage staff, students, and employers to uncover best practices and develop a shared understanding of the skills and attributes of DkIT graduates. While DkIT graduates have a 94% employment rate within one year of graduating, employability practices tend to be localized. The focus group will discuss themes like understanding employability at DkIT, cultivating employability skills, graduate attributes, employers' roles, supports for recent graduates, and assisting socially disadvantaged students. The goals are to create a set of graduate attributes, an employability guide, an industry forum, and an institute-wide employability statement.
Forging Successful Learning Centers: Critical Considerations and Evidence-Bas...Lisa D'Adamo-Weinstein
This document provides an overview of a presentation for new learning center directors on forging successful learning centers. It discusses critical considerations like programs and services, use of technology, assessment and evaluation, professional development, and budgeting. Participants will gain knowledge on evidence-based best practices and utilize a work plan to develop actions and timelines for center improvements. The document includes discussion questions to involve participants.
Upcea 2020 sola+r ketcham-identifying skills, knowledge and attitudes for s...gketcham
The document summarizes a discussion about the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed for successful online leadership positions in higher education. It identifies common roles for these leaders, including vision/leadership, entrepreneurship, fiscal management, and instructional design. Barriers discussed include resistance to change from institutions and a lack of integration for online/continuing education leaders. Advice from colleagues includes gaining experience at different institutions, self-promotion, publishing, and networking to advance careers.
Towards an intersectional approach to accessibility in the post-secondary lan...Frederic Fovet
The accessibility momentum has grown exponentially over the last decade in Canada, much like it has in other jurisdictions. With growing numbers of students making requests for accessibility services, and vast numbers of students identifying as experiencing barriers in learning, discussing the inclusion of students with disabilities has now become the norm on most post-secondary. Campuses. Delivery of services has had to be refined and accelerated. There is innovation in the way faculty are now engaged in a reflection on inclusion. Importantly inclusive design is now talked about much more openly, with faculty embracing their role as designers and Universal Design for Learning taking a central stage within the Teaching and Learning suites that support instructors.
While change has been impressive and it is now fair to assert that higher education is much more focused than ever on inclusion, this discourse remains very narrowly focused on impairment and disability. This is problematic in many ways and threatens the further development of inclusive policies and of effective universal design practices. (i) First this narrow conceptualization of students with disabilities is problematic as it fails to acknowledge intersectionality and the way these students’ lived experience often also involves marginalization on the basis of nationality, race, sexual orientation, and gender. (ii) It becomes rapidly clear when instructors adopt a barriers analysis in the redesign of their courses or assessment with the use of inclusive design lenses such as UDL, that the barriers experienced by students with disabilities are also commonly encountered by other diverse learners. Efforts to convince instructors of the pressing need for inclusive design therefore lose momentum by ignoring many of the learners this reflection is pertinent for. (iii) Lastly in terms of strategic change and of the embedding of inclusive design in the mission statements and sustainable plans of campuses, there is strength in numbers and the lack of interdisciplinary discourse on inclusion and accessibility weakens efforts for growth of this agenda.
This fully interactive session will lead participants to thoroughly explore the interdisciplinary networks and dialogues that are necessary on their campuses to trigger change and to widen the discourse on accessibility to include all key stakeholders. It is action focused and aims to offer the participants the opportunity to develop an immediate plan as to the ways they can become change agent in this process of interdisciplinary work around accessibility. The session is based on qualitative research carried out in Canada with faculty and support personnel that seeks to explore the hurdles and opportunities that currently exist within the process of creating interdisciplinary efforts towards accessibility across post-secondary institutions.
UDL in Further Education: Addressing learner diversity in a sustainable wayFrederic Fovet
This document provides an overview of a presentation on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) given to the Donegal Further Education & Training Board in Ireland.
The presentation introduces UDL and discusses why it is needed to better address learner diversity. Currently, support services operate under a deficit model that focuses on learners' weaknesses rather than examining barriers within instruction. UDL shifts the focus to inclusive design by considering multiple means of representation, engagement, and action/expression.
The presentation covers explaining UDL principles, applying a social model of disability, conducting a barriers analysis, and offering examples of UDL implementation without prescriptive checklists. Engaging faculty in reflecting on their practices through a UDL lens can help make
Beyond curiosity: building on initial professional development opportunities ...Frederic Fovet
This interactive workshop will offer participants the opportunity to reflect collectively on the impact initial professional development on UDL has, within institutions, on the scaling up of UDL initiatives. The journey from PD opportunity to strategic involvement in UDL implementation across teaching and learning on campuses is not as linear as might be assumed. A variety of ecological variables can affect the impact these windows of PD have on practice, or the scope of their amplification across institutions. The workshop will lead the participants as they consider, beyond the actual content of UDL PD opportunity, what factors may limit the impact such UDL micro-credentials, or on the contrary magnify their potential. The workshop offers an opportunity to reflect, from an operational and leadership lens, what winning conditions need to be in place for PD on UDL to authentically take roots and achieve maximum outcomes.
Reimagining inclusion in higher education in transformational post-pandemic t...Frederic Fovet
Much of the discourse around inclusion in higher education has thus far been grounded in scholarship on disability and impairment. As a result, inclusion in this sector has been defined and discussed mostly in terms of an ‘accommodation vs. universal design’ dichotomy – or retrofitting after the fact versus proactive inclusive design ahead of the class. The COVID pandemic has forced, around the world, an overnight online pivot, as well as many other periods of pedagogical innovation and disruption over a two-year duration. The overall outcomes of this period of transformation in teaching and learning has been mixed with scholars and practitioners showcasing both new opportunities and continuing hurdles for students with disabilities.
The most unexpected outcome, however, of the emergence of the tertiary sector from the pandemic is the realization that issues of accessibility and inclusion which have been energized by the pivot are now discussed widely by the student body and are no longer restricted to issues of disability and impairment. This presentation will draw from qualitative data collected within the student body on a campus in Western Canada about the way their expectations about accessibility, inclusion and student-centeredness have evolved during and post-COVID in their experiences of their progression through their degree. It explores the emerging advocacy that surrounds these topics.
The discussion and outcomes section of the presentation will lead participants on a reflection about the ways the pandemic experience and the online pivot have radically transformed: (i) learner expectation with regards to inclusion and accessibility, (ii) blurred the delineations between students with disabilities and the rest of the student body, and (iii) created the need for a new conceptualization of inclusion in the tertiary sector in the post-pandemic landscape. One of the assertions developed in the presentation is that this redefinition of inclusion for the post-pandemic tertiary sector presumes a reflection on being together in/with place in the way teaching and learning redefines presence, connection, and engagement for fuller accessibility.
Shaping inclusive educational landscapes in a post-pandemic world: Seizing un...Frederic Fovet
The document discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented opportunities to re-examine educational landscapes and pedagogies from an inclusive perspective. It explores how the disruption has impacted mindsets around learner engagement, the definition of diversity, and funding models for inclusion. The author argues that while challenging, the pandemic has catalyzed long-needed changes and a shift towards more authentically transformative and inclusive educational approaches.
Creating sustainable foundations for the development of social emotional lear...Frederic Fovet
The scholarship on social emotional learning (SEL) has grown exponentially over the last decade. While its beneficial impact on best practices in school is immediately palpable, developing and strengthening buy-in for SEL in schools has, on the other hand, been strenuous in many contexts globally. One reason for this pushback is the lack of clear current theoretical connection, in the eyes of teachers, with existing policies and practices that are already in place in most jurisdictions. In most pre-service teacher training, for example, just as in in-service professional development, SEL sits aside of inclusion as a topic and is presented to stakeholders as entirely distinct. In the field, similarly, SEL integration projects tend to rival projects on inclusion rather than complement them. This creates a struggle for resources which is counter productive. It also creates a degree of confusion in the mind of many teachers, which can lead to disengagement and push-back, when in fact these agenda compliment each other pedagogically with ease. Much of this tension is historical and relates to the way SEL was introduced at a distinct stage, in most jurisdictions, from other inclusive policies. This dichotomous strain is also due to the fact that the stakeholders promoting both agendas often have distinct theoretical backgrounds and professional training. This session will examine solutions to this tension and engage participants on how to optimally conceptualize SEL within existing legislative and pedagogical frameworks for inclusion.
The session will first review and analyze the existing tension between inclusion initiatives and efforts to grow SEL in K-12 schools. The second part of the presentation will examine in more detail qualitative data gathered in Canada, among K-12 teachers, that explores these individuals’ perceptions around the place of SEL within best practices for inclusion. The third section of the session will focus on solutions that may help erode or eliminate this tension and will seek to offer participants hands-on strategies that might be useful in their own national contexts.
Nothing about them without them: Authentically engaging students in UDL growthFrederic Fovet
Presentation at the 1st International Universal Design for Learning Symposium Learning Together.
Maynooth University, June 8th, 2023
There has been a growing interest for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework for inclusion in both the K-12 and post-secondary sectors over the last decade, and this momentum has been noticeable globally. The body of literature which evidences the pedagogical benefits of UDL implementation for the inclusion of diverse learners is now broad and diversified. There is also growing interest in examining UDL implementation from a leadership and administrative perspective, examining it as a management of change process.
Throughout this growth in scholarship and field initiatives, the concepts of student voice and student advocacy have frequently been used and showcased. The literature regarding the learner role in the process of UDL implementation is, however, still limited. Placing learners in the driving seat when it comes to UDL adoption is therefore purely conceptual and abstract at this stage. It will be challenging to genuinely scale-up UDL as a framework, in both the K-12 sector and the post-secondary landscape, until students have considered with care and offered an active leadership role. Students’ perception of UDL and its objectives are key in the success of initiatives that seek to integrate it across organizations.
This fully interactive session will examine the various facets of the notion of learner involvement in the process of UDL adoption. First, the session will consider the way UDL must be explicitly discussed with learners within the class, while UDL initiatives are attempted. Failure to explain this process to students, and to actively engage them in it, significantly limits the scope of such efforts. The second part of the session will consider learner voice beyond the class itself, and will discuss ways to involve students as co-advocates for UDL growth, across institutions. This is a rich and complex process of critical empowerment which has unfortunately been so far rushed or ignored. The third part of the session will consider how UDL professional development should be addressed not just to educators but to student groups and student representatives. This section of the presentation will explore how the UDL principles must bee woven into such resources and PD for students and student groups, and how they must inform the design of such initiatives.
Can we do it without school principals’ commitment? Exploring the complex imp...Frederic Fovet
There has been a growing interest for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework for inclusion in both the K-12 and post-secondary sectors over the last decade, and this momentum has been noticeable globally. The body of literature which evidences the pedagogical benefits of UDL implementation for the inclusion of diverse learners is now broad and diversified. There is also growing interest in examining UDL implementation from a leadership and administrative perspective, examining it as a management of change process. In the K-12 sector, this scholarship is not as developed as it could be if it is going to effectively support and guide the efforts of teachers as they attempt to scale up their initiatives and achieve sustainable integration across schools. There are many variables teachers seeking to adopt UDL have to battle with, and the roles and positions of school principal is a factor often cited.
This presentation will explore in an interactive format the much under-researched impact of the know-how, disposition, and commitment of school principals towards UDL integration. An awareness of this variable and its impact is crucial when designing future blueprints for the effective growth of UDL across schools. The session will be run in a workshop format that will encourage participants to share their experiences authentically and to build on some of the frustrations that will be expressed about the frequent ambivalence of school leaders in the process of UDL growth. The anticipated outcomes are as follows. Participants will:
- Reflect on the impact of school leadership on the success of UDL implementation
- Examine the resources and training school principals are in need of to more effectively support UDL initiatives
- Explore the challenges faced by school principals when trying to support UDL projects, within a wider landscape of neoliberal pressures
Getting the message across silos: exploring the difficult art of involving mu...Frederic Fovet
This document outlines a presentation on involving multidisciplinary partners in UDL implementation. The presentation acknowledges the traditional territories it is being held on and explores what multidisciplinarity means in the context of UDL. It examines challenges like the tension between faculty and accessibility services and how to involve senior administration and share UDL with other campus groups. It stresses including student perspectives and discusses challenges like determining responsibility for UDL leadership. The presenter draws on experience implementing UDL and research on applying an ecological approach across institutions.
Can you afford not to do this? Framing the pressing need for Universal Design...Frederic Fovet
Slides of my presentation as part of a panel run with Anna Santucci hosted by UCC and organized by CIRTL and James Northridge of UCC Inclusive
While Universal Design for Learning (UDL) had gained in momentum across Canadian post-secondary institutions over the last decade, it has been mostly framed in terms of pedagogical best practices. This has inherently meant that it has attracted and been appealing to instructors already very focused on transformative pedagogies and accessibility. Few other strategic approaches to UDL advocacy and strategic growth have to date been explored. Yet, many efforts to deploy UDL in the further and higher education sectors have stalled or not gained full momentum on the global scale. The time has perhaps come to conceptualize the need for UDL from powerful new and innovative stances, for optimal impact and growth outcomes.
An argument which is less often used to frame UDL but that carries perhaps more persuasive weight with faculty, staff, and administration is that of sustainable development. When examining current post-secondary practices with regards to accessibility, learner diversity, and inclusion, it becomes immediately and pressingly tangible that campuses can rarely afford to continue functioning efficiently with their existing models.
There are three distinct ways, this session will argue, in which sustainability can and should be used as a lens to examine the need for change in relation to inclusion and accessibility: (i) first the notion of sustainable teaching practices pushes us to question how long we can continue to design for the mythical mainstream classroom, without burning out while retrofitting constantly for the diverse student population that is in fact in our lecture halls; (ii) the sustainable development lens also pushes to examine out current model of service provision in relation to accessibility and to question how long this delivery model can last without imploding; (iii) lastly, considering the hyper neo-liberal mindset that currently characterizes the neo-liberal sector, it is reasonable to wonder if institutions have a genuine likelihood of surviving and thriving if they do not respond to the ever more eloquent needs of a diverse clientele.
This session will seek to examine and showcase how UDL addresses these three areas of concern related to sustainable development. The session will be followed by a 30-minute panel during which these themes will continue to be explored in a fully interactive manner with the audience. The outcomes include:
- Acknowledge the impact of sustainability as a lens to promote UDL within campuses;
- Explore arguments and examples that may be useful to showcase UDL within a sustainability approach in the participants’ own institutions;
- Identify stakeholder relationship which must be developed and strengthened to grow UDL implementation within the sustainable development lens.
From curiosity to sustainable individual implementation: Getting settled into...Frederic Fovet
While Universal Design for Learning (UDL) had gained in momentum across Canadian post-secondary institutions over the last decade, oftentimes instructors who are introduced to the framework get few opportunities to consider detailed implementation or to reflect fully on its implication for their own teaching and learning – beyond the initial increased awareness of the need for accessibility and inclusion of all diverse learners. As a result, much of this initial curiosity and interest tends to die down, for simple lack of support, infrastructure, and time.
This session will seek to address this common issue and ongoing challenge, by offering participants a half day of deep immersion into the principles of UDL and their implementation in class. After a quick refresher of the key characteristics of the UDL approach, the participants will be encouraged to work in teams on hands-on case studies and scenarios that will offer them the opportunity to fully gauge what the redesign of a class delivery or assessment – along UDL principles - might look like and imply.
The workshop will also include a large segment reserved for interactive questions and discussions. This will offer participants the opportunity to develop their reflection around UDL implementation in their practice and individual professional context in detail and depth. The whole group will have the opportunity to review a number of hands on concerns and preoccupations and to equip all participants with a degree of autonomy in relation to the implementation of UDL into their teaching and learning.
Gauging the impact of social model awareness among elementary and secondary s...Frederic Fovet
There has a been an exponential development – if not an explosion - of inclusive policies and practices adopted within the elementary and secondary sectors in most Global North jurisdictions over the last two decades. While the discourse around inclusion has grown as a result, it would be unwise to assume that inclusive practices have become the norm or that they have been seamlessly integrated: there is still a lot of tension and unease among teachers seeking to implement inclusive practices; this translates into hesitation and sometimes even a push back from school leaders; there remains much confusion at times as to the intentions and theoretical principles that ground these efforts.
The session will offer insights into a study which sought to determine to what extent an introduction to the Social Model of Disability was effective and impactful in allowing elementary and secondary school teachers to ground their work in the field of inclusive practices with conceptual clarity. It is argued that this has so far been the missing piece in pre-service teacher training as well as in-service professional development. The inclusion discourse within the primary and secondary landscape, both in terms of policy documents and field resources, has not explicitly or effectively integrated Disability Studies - and more specifically the Social Model of Disability - when framing and formulating inclusive provisions. As a result, teachers’ theoretical understanding of the foundations for inclusive reforms as they relate to the rights of children with disabilities is shaky at best and this affects these classroom professionals’ commitment to broad transformative pedagogical reforms. Bio-medical and deficit models prevail, and other lenses and constructs offered by the Disability Studies literature remain absent from this professional reflection.
The session explores qualitative data collected among K-12 teachers as they were being introduced to the key features of the social model of disability. The data analysis gauges to what extent this transformed their views on inclusion in the classroom.
This fully interactive session will lead the participants, in a hands-on fashion, along the journey experienced by these teachers and allow for an experiential understanding of the degree to which any material developing awareness of the social model of disability can have immediate impact on the clarity and effectiveness of inclusion efforts in the primary and secondary sectors. More widely, a discussion will be triggered in the session around the urgency of including Disability Studies scholarship in pre-service teacher training.
Examining the practicalities of accessibility and inclusion in post-pandemic ...Frederic Fovet
The push for extensive online teaching and learning had begun well before the COVID pandemic and the online pivot, but the last three years have dramatically intensified the reflection around what Education 4.0 might look like in the post-secondary. Consensus appears to privilege hybrid and blended learning as the format which is most likely to optimally meet the needs of learners in coming decades. Lessons from the three years of pandemic disruption have been rich and nuanced in this respect. Within this phenomenal momentum of pedagogical creativity and innovation, however, the situation in relation to accessibility and full inclusion of all diverse learners has been ambivalent, and the experiences of diverse students have been contradictory. This session showcases the qualitative analysis of phenomenological data collected among accessibility and inclusion specialists within higher education – faculty and support staff - regarding the challenges and opportunities encountered during these transformative three years. The theoretical paradigm within which this data is showcased and analyzed is interpretivist, but the work also acknowledges preoccupations of critical theory/ critical pedagogy. The discussion that emerges from these findings will focus on the ways these pandemic lessons on inclusive teaching and learning can now serve as an exceptional window to proactively frame smart pedagogies of the future that leave out no stakeholders. The final section of the session examines ways to integrate these pandemic lessons to generate sustainable best practices for accessibility and inclusion in transformative blended learning spaces, that succeed in going beyond ad hoc interventions and retrofitting.
Keynote –4th Pedagogy for Higher Education Large Classes (PHELC) Symposium, D...Frederic Fovet
Including learner diversity in large class teaching: Using Universal Design for Learning to sustain a systematic proactive reflection on social justice and accessibility
Keynote at the DCUTL2020: Reflecting on inclusive teaching in a post-pandemic...Frederic Fovet
The COVID pivot to online and blended learning has radically shaken teaching practices in the post-secondary sector, worldwide. Despite the overnight urgency and the rushed nature of the redesign, the shift to remote instruction and assessment has been a cathartic experience for individual instructors, departments and institutions as a whole. The pandemic has eroded the resistance to change which was prevalent in teaching and learning in many post-secondary landscapes. It has made classroom practitioners irreversibly conscious of their role and power as designers of the learning experience.
It would be naïve, however, to assert that this has been a period of only net gains. In the area of inclusion and social justice particularly, while there has been overall an increased awareness of learner diversity, accessibility and addressing diverse student needs have often been set aside or dismissed within the COVID contingency planning. The argument has been that the pandemic had made it impossible to focus on or to prioritize a Human Rights approach when so many other basic organizational priorities needed to be tackled with urgency.
The absence of focus on inclusion during the pandemic is concerning first because it has allowed a gap in opportunities to appear in most higher education landscapes – as inequities became exacerbated. The most worrying danger is, however, arguably yet to emerge. As instructors shift to the post-pandemic reality and integrate lessons from the COVID crisis into their practice, the prospect of adopting new teaching formats is increasingly appealing. A new, radically innovative conceptualization of blended learning is taking root - no longer seen as a response to remoteness, but instead as an optimized merging of best design considerations. It will be essential therefore, as this new vision of blended learning and its pedagogical potential emerge, to refocus attention on inclusion and learner diversity.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL), it will be argued in this presentation, has a key role to play in this reflection and will serve as a crucial framework to guide instructors as they navigate this new landscape and take on new responsibilities as lucid designers of fully blended experiences for the 21st century. The session will explore emerging needs in relation to inclusion within this new blended learning reality; it will examine specific ways UDL can be optimized as a lens to guarantee that inclusion remains a central concern in the coming years, as the post-secondary sector navigates this metamorphosis; lastly the session will consider the strategic and organizational challenges involved in giving UDL a central position within the pedagogical reflection which is unfolding in the post-pandemic landscape.
UDL implementation in higher education during the COVID crisisFrederic Fovet
Abstract: After a decade of advocacy across North American campuses, it can be fairly asserted that Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is finally having an impact on the inclusion of students with Disabilities across campuses. It is helping shift instructors and departments away from medical model approaches to students with Disabilities, and facilitating the adoption of the social model of disability in classroom practices.
In 2020, however, the COVID pandemic forced campus closures and an overnight shift to online instruction and assessment across the world. Many have argued that this pivot has helped increase awareness of accessibility and has developed inclusive design as a mindset among instructors. Equally numerous are researchers and practitioners who feel that the pandemic has weakened institutions’ commitment to inclusion, made accessible learning more difficult to achieve, and generally hindered the development of UDL in Higher Education.
This interactive session will lead the audience in assessing to what extent each of these assertions might be true, and how campuses can draw important lessons from these experiences, in relation to UDL implementation.
The presentation draws from multiple interactive workshops which have been offered to UDL advocates and faculty throughout the pandemic. It presents the analysis of phenomenological data gathered throughout these professional development sessions.
Frederic Fovet Keynote at the Perfect Blend Conference - Vancouver School BoardFrederic Fovet
Most schools around the world have been forced to launch extensive online and blended practices as the COVID pandemic precipitated the sector towards closure. This has been an unprecedented conjuncture for discovery, experimentation and exploration. As schools and teachers prepare for a post-pandemic landscape, it is also important nevertheless to acknowledge that the lessons learnt from these two years of forced change were not optimal. First, much of the work done online in the K-12 sector was not fully inclusive or designed for the full spectrum of diverse learners. Second, the blended and online practices that have emerged have generally been seen as poor substitutes, with teachers seeking to return to face to face urgently rather than reflectively integrating in their everyday teaching the rich pedagogical opportunities the blended formats have offered a glimpse of. The presentation will explore how Universal Design for Learning can be an immediately pertinent and effective framework, offering hands on tools, for teachers to capitalize on their pandemic experiences to transform their in-class practices, with the help of technology and a blended mindset.
What is the important data that is not being recorded in comparative internat...Frederic Fovet
The document discusses limitations of international standardized data collection in assessing learner diversity and inclusive practices. It acknowledges progress made through comparative analyses but notes significant resistance from teachers due to misuse of data to push political agendas. Key limitations of current data are the failure to record student challenges to learning, school environments' ability to be inclusive, and impacts of school culture. There is a need for large-scale qualitative tools to evaluate ecological factors influencing inclusion and better reflect realities on the ground. Key indicators like ableism, racism, and socioeconomic challenges remain largely ignored.
Frederic Fovet Presentatin at the UDL and Inclusive Practice Symposium: Reach...Frederic Fovet
Post-secondary campuses are attracting an increasingly diverse student population. This must be celebrated as it means that the post-secondary classroom is also increasingly representative of the population at large; it means as well that all students are confronted with diversity in their campus experience and learn to embrace it; the internationalization of post-secondary institutions furthermore leads to greater opportunities to develop global citizenship.
This diversity of the student population, however, is not always perceived by faculty as easy or seamless to address proactively. As a result, students’ expectations can often clash with current teaching and learning practices that have not changed as fast as the composition of the student body has done. This leads to friction. It is not just students with disabilities that are experiencing barriers in their learning; International students, second language learners, culturally diverse and racialized students, first generation students, Indigenous students, and non-traditional learners all report experiencing similar barriers in their learning in the post-secondary classroom. Together, these students often represent a majority on our campuses - a majority that does not feel learning is designed for their needs.
It is becoming urgent therefore to find ways of eroding this friction. The solutions must address the needs of diverse learners proactively, but also support faculty as they rethink their classroom practices. These solutions must be sustainable, user-friendly, cost-effective, and powerful; they must guarantee a rapid change in our teaching and learning landscape, uphold the standards of post-secondary education, and ensure the creation of genuinely inclusive provisions.
The session will explore how Universal Design for Learning is uniquely positioned as a framework to address these pressing needs. The session will be interactive and seek to empower participants with a firm mastery of the UDL principles, to offer them practical examples of their use in the classroom, and to guide them as they begin their journey with implementation.
Keynote Presentation Universell Norway May 25 Frederic Fovet
Keynote presentation at the Nasjonalt webinar om inkluderende læringsmiljø - Unoversell, Norway
Exploring the need for sustainable ‘whole campus’ approaches to the Inclusion of diverse learners
Frederic Fovet D'arcy Mc Gee Beacon Fellowship Lecture 2021Frederic Fovet
This document summarizes a lecture about using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to promote inclusion across university campuses. It identifies the need for more inclusive teaching practices to support diverse students. UDL provides a framework to shift away from a medical model of support towards inclusive course design that benefits all students. The lecture highlights promising applications of UDL, such as for Indigenous, international and first-generation students. While progress has been made, challenges remain in strategically implementing UDL through documentation, specific settings, change management, and developing shared understanding across campuses.
Philippine Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) CurriculumMJDuyan
(𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝟏𝟎𝟎) (𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏)-𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐬
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐏𝐏 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬:
- Understand the goals and objectives of the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) curriculum, recognizing its importance in fostering practical life skills and values among students. Students will also be able to identify the key components and subjects covered, such as agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, and information and communication technology.
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫:
-Define entrepreneurship, distinguishing it from general business activities by emphasizing its focus on innovation, risk-taking, and value creation. Students will describe the characteristics and traits of successful entrepreneurs, including their roles and responsibilities, and discuss the broader economic and social impacts of entrepreneurial activities on both local and global scales.
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2. Keynote AHEAD 2020: A Utopian vision of what HE
Disability service provision might look like in a
genuinely inclusive future
AHEAD Conference 2020, Dublin
Frederic Fovet, School of Education and Technology, RRU
3. Interactive interlude
• We will use a quick Zoom poll in order to get you individually engaging in the
overarching theme.
• Poll:
• Do you feel, looking ahead to perhaps just two years ahead down the line, the
format of accessibility services delivery will be able to withstand current
challenges? Will we make it through to 2022 without a massive rethink?
5. Key issue discussed
in this workshop
• Higher Education is changing rapidly.
Our goals when it comes to Inclusion
in post-secondary are evolving quickly
too. It is in this context that Universal
Design for Learning (UDL) is becoming
increasingly appealing.
• It will be difficult to move forward
towards this new reality, however,
without first fully acknowledging the
complex tension which is appearing
between the traditional format of
accessibility services and the goals we
are seeking to achieve.
All illustrations by John Tenniel (1865)
6. Your travel partner on this dystopian
journey
• Currently Associate Professor in Education at Royal
Roads University in BC, Canada
• Previously Director of the Office for Students with
Disabilities at McGill for 4 years
• Continue to act as consultant to colleges and
universities on matters of accessibility and Universal
Design for Learning
• Heavily involved in UDL promotion in HE in Canada
• Have been Academic Lead on an MEd for 3 years at
UPEI and am now Program Head on an MA in
Educational Leadership and Management.
• Identify seamlessly with the perspective of
accessibility services, but also able to step back and
take some distance to examine objectively how
existing practices create uneasiness.
• You Mad Hatter on this journey!
7. Format of Keynote
• When discussing the transfer of the Keynote to an online format, Dara and I thought the
most engaging way to structure the talk would be a discussion format. Dara has graciously
accepted to be my partner in this dialogue.
• Will encourage Dara to stop me when participants have questions. Please use the chat
function in Zoom.
• We have inserted interactive activities to encourage participants to take on an active role in
the discussion.
• A reflection on UDL within the conference delivery format has led me to create a website to
support the talk, and offer participants multiple pathways to the content. The site can be
found at: www.keynoteAHEAD2020.com
• I also wish to stretch the opportunity we have for dialogue well beyond the hour we are given
here. You can continue the discussion via email (frederic.fovet@royalroads.ca) or through
social media such as Twitter (@ffovet or #AHEAD2020). Please join these discussions and
build the momentum around these important themes.
8. First part of the journey: Down the rabbit
hole
• Let’s begin our journey down the
rabbit hole. Accompany me on an
exploration of a dystopian future
world where nothing has changed
and trends have become
accentuated…
9. Interactive interlude
• Interactive activity – Using Menti, we are going to get you to
explore and share some of the areas of tension you are currently
experiencing within Disability support services. Where are the
seams cracking? Please keep entering your thoughts in Menti
through this section and we will go through some of the
comments together at the end of the section.
• Go to Menti.com – enter code 583960
10. Down the rabbit hole
• As we descend down the rabbit
hole, we are going to consider
five points of tension:
- Growing demographics
- Explosion of diagnostic labels
- Need for financially sustainable
solutions
- Inherent clash between current
practices and social model goals
- Increasingly loud expectations of
the student body
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11. Explosion in demographics
Emerging trends
• Unprecedented explosion in
service request (up to 150% in one
year on certain North American
campuses)
• Emergence of a significant body of
‘floaters’, students who require
services but do not register
• Percentage of service users who
do not identify as having a
Disability and refuse to approach
these services
Impact on Accessibility services
• Intake appointments impossible to
maintain in their current format
• Long bottleneck and waitlists
• High percentage of learners cannot
access their services
• Increasing provision of template
services that are not specifically
aligned with learners’ needs.
• Increased number of complaints and
appeals – including litigation and
settlements
• Disconnect and frustration from
faculty
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12. Explosion of diagnostic labels
Emerging trends
• Services set up for ‘traditional’
disabilities (hearing, visual and
mobility impairments) are forced well
beyond their expertise and applying a
targeted, remedial, diagnostic
approach to diagnoses they have little
understanding of.
• This leads to processes that are
contradictory and purport to put a
campus on notice of a diagnosis whilst
not providing specialized expertise.
Letter of accommodations to
instructors has become entirely
meaningless.
Impact on Accessibility services
• Phenomenon of disempowerment and
emergence of a ‘culture of referral’ on
campuses that seem to purport that to be
a specialist on access one needs to have
diagnostic expertise.
• The diagnostic document is no longer a
tool it becomes a barrier between the
service provider and the learner and
often precludes genuine dialogue on
barriers created by the learning
environment.
• Many learners in fact do not actually
require traditional accommodations, but
are still being forced to acquire diagnostic
documentation.
13. Need for financially sustainable solutions
• Accommodations were designed and conceived at a time when students with
Disabilities represented a very small percentage of the campus population.
• In those days it was possible to create inclusive provisions in this way; it remained
uncomplicated, relatively cheap, manageable and relatively efficient.
• This is no longer the case: the existing format of services is extremely costly and has
become unsustainable.
• The issue is not the cost itself, but rather the fact that these expenses keep
increasing, that they snowball and escalate out of control – without ever having any
tangible structural impact on practices or pedagogy.
• A cost of this magnitude can only be justified if it succeeds in fundamentally altering
structure and creates a more sustainable campus.
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14. Inherent clash between current practices
and social model goals
• Intake format
• Flavour of appointments and power dynamics
• Issues with the notion of ‘help’ – breeds co-dependency on services than actual
autonomy
• Over-reliance on documentation
• Creation of additional barriers, not removal of challenges
• Particularly thorny issue of exam accommodation and onerous registration processes
• Issues with outreach with implies an inherent adhesion to medical model
• Funding model of accessibility services is ambivalent and prioritizes ‘bodies through
the door’
• Breeds a ‘working myself out of a job’ ambivalence in relation to UDL
• Little time and resources dedicated to faculty support
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15. Increasingly loud expectations of the
student body
• There is starting to be a clash of culture between a generation of students who ahev
very specific expectations with regards to inclusion and a system that has so far not
shied away from setting them apart and labelling them.
• Where does that eloquent anger come from? We are now supporting a generation
of students that has benefitted from inclusion in schools. They have a very clear
understanding of social capital and why it is so important within education.
• They wish to be treated as all other students and often reject being channelled
towards a parallel system that purports to treat them differently.
• Anecdote from my own practice in relation to final exams in Undrgraduate courses.
• Mediatized case in Ontario that has set a precedent for Ontario universities:
• This student voice highlights daily the fundamental clash that exist between some of
our Disability services practices and the social model of disability/ genuine inclusion
16. Our journey down
the rabbit hole…
• Unsustainable practices
• Routines at odds with the
very spirit of Inclusion
• Exhaustion of staff dealing
with an unsustainable future
• Lack of support from faculty
and other units who are
aware of these contradictions
and deterred from actively
collaborating
17. Part two of the journey: Through the
looking glass
• I now invite you on a very
different journey, a journey to
a world that could be, a
future that is sustainable and
addresses our concern –
through the looking glass…
18. Interactive interlude
• Interactive activity – Using Menti, Dara and I are going to ask you
to create a word puzzle by posting words you feel have strong
suggestive connotations in relation to the changes you feel are
needed urgently in order to avoid the ‘madness’ we have just
journeyed through… What would be your ‘one word’
recommendations to the sector for immediate change in the way
we see and construct the Inclusion of diverse learners.
• Go to Menti.com – enter code 293964
19. Part two of the journey: Through the
looking glass
Suggestions for a sustainable future:
(i) shifting services towards faculty support
(ii) reframing the image of Accessibility services
(iii) rationalizing exam services
(iv) removing barriers from student interface
(v) redefining sustainable development of Accessibility
service
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20. Part threeof the journey: Sustainable leadership and
management of change
• As our journey through the looking
glass comes to a close, I invite you
to reflect on the leadership and
management repercussion of this
reflection.
• What is required, on the part of unit
leaders and senior management, to
guide Accessibility services staff
‘through the looking glass’?
• What are the pragmatic steps that
must be taken, in terms of
management of change, to reach
these sustainable goals?
21. Interactive Interlude
• Interactive activity – During this section we will ask you to write
down questions and use the Zoom Meeting chatbox to post them.
Frederic and Dara will tackle as many of these as possible as the
section comes to a close.
22. Part three of the journey: Sustainable
leadership and management of change
• Acknowledge and challenge our ambivalence with regards to UDL
• Engage in meaningful cross-campus alliances for the development and
implementation of UDL
• Avoid using obsolete funding model as an excuse for stagnation
• Engage in an authentic reflection on hiring practices
• Support staff as they begin using UDL as a lens on their practice
• Collaborate with other student services and embracing Intersectionality
• Boldly embrace a new wider role for Accessibility services on campus
24. Let’s continue this journey together –
Extend the conversation!
• Let’s break this Keynote out of the
traditional constraints of
conference delivery.
• AHEAD and Dara have helped us
do this in part already by allowing
it to take shape online.
• Let’s apply UDL fully to it and turn
it into an ongoing conversation!
• I’ll be online for the evening (my
afternoon) and we can chat using
email
(frederic.fovet@royalroads.ca) or
Twitter (@Ffovet or #AHEAD2020)
25. References
Bailey, M. (2017) Race and Disability in the Academy. The Sociological Review.
Beck, T., Diaz del Castillo, P., Fovet, F., Mole, H., & Noga, B. (2014) Applying Universal
Design to disability service provision: outcome analysis of a UD audit. Journal of Post-
secondary Education and Disability, 27(2), 209-222
Fichten, C., Heiman, T., Havel, A., Jorgensen, M., & Budd, J. (2016) Sustainability of
Disability-Related Services in Canada and Israel: Will the Real Universal Design Please
Stand Up? Exceptionality Education International, 26(1), 19–35
Fovet, F., & Giles, J. (2015) ‘What`s in a name?’ Assessing dynamic tension between
Critical Theory ambitions and Neoliberal pragmatism in Higher Education Disability
service provision. International Studies in Widening Participation, 2 (2), 4-11
Fovet, F. (2017) Access, Universal Design and Sustainability of Teaching Practices: a
Powerful Synchronicity of Concepts at a Crucial Conjuncture for Higher Education.
Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies (IJDS), 4(2), 118-129
Fovet, F. (2020) Examining the (lack of) impact the #disabilitytoowhite movement has
had on Higher Ed Disability Service Provision. Paper presented at the Hawaii
International Conference on Education, Honolulu, January
Fovet, F. (in print) Developing an Ecological Approach to Strategic UDL Implementation
in Higher Education. Journal of Education and Teaching
Houghton, M. & Fovet, F. (2012) Reframing Disability, reshaping the provision of
services. Communiqué, 13 (1), 16-19
Stienstra, D., Nyerere, L. (2016). Race, ethnicity and disability: Charting complex and
intersectional terrains. In Grech, S., Soldatic, K. (Eds.), Disability in the global South (pp.
255–268). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
26. Contact details
• Frederic Fovet (PhD.)
• Associate Professor, School of Education and Technology, Royal Roads
University
• Frederic.fovet@royalroads.ca
• @Ffovet
• www.implementudl.com
27. Next Up for #AHEAD2020
Tomorrow: 11:00am GMT - 'Come together: An
exploration, with you, on how campus learning
networks can support inclusion', Dr Etienne Wenger
Traynor
Next Friday (April 3rd): 14:30 – ‘Final of John Kelly
Award for Universal Design for Learning’
Register for all sessions free at
ahead.ie/conference2020