Universal Design for Learning

Presuming Competence By Design: A tutorial for systems, environment, curricular, and materials design in learning systems

Requirements

CARPe Materia

(seize the material)

The other component is the visual design. Tagging and defining those tags allows you to create a consistent visual design that will help learners “chunk” the material appropriately and better retain the information. There are three principles to good visual design, and 4 complementary practices to achieve those principles:

For each one, click on the link to learn more. It will open a new window. When you are done, close that window to come back here and continue. These are great examples, visuals and self-guided exercises that will help you improve the design of your materials.

Instructional Materials - Summary

Whew! Bet you're glad we're through that. That was a lot! And in fact, that's appropriately so. By tackling materials, you can take care of a large set of the barriers that commonly limit learners unnecessarily. Now let's practice and then look at other barriers and what to do. For examples of modifications to materials teachers have made based on UDL principles, check out the "UDL In My Classroom" section.