Use of Universal Design forLearning to promote inclusion and equitable access in learning. Delivered to conference on innovative education and teachers in Warsaw, Poland in June 2016
2. Purposive learning in an age of
uncertainty
End of linear models of learning
Cognitive dissonance: what is needed is
not being provided
Alienation and anomie in a changing world
Labor market flux
Adaptability and innovation as norm
Globalized paradigms/fractured
communities
3. Towards Global Citizenship
Education must fully assume its central role in
helping people to forge more just, peaceful, tolerant
and inclusive societies. It must give people the
understanding, skills and values they need to
cooperate in resolving the interconnected
challenges of the 21st century.
United Nations: Global Education First Initiative
(2012)
4. Shaping Imaginative Spaces
Ethnic demographics
Disability
National frameworks & EU contexts
Flexibility and adaptability
Educational systems and new learning
Interculturalism and diversity.
5. ICT: re-imagines space and
access
Contradictory and paradoxical
What we think:
Citizens
Shared knowledge
Participative engagement
What we have:
Consumers
Increasing exclusion
Significant problems with equitable access
6. Responding to change
Flexibility
Digital learning
Visions of excellence
Sustainability
Sugata Mitra:
Comprehension/Communication/Computation
7. Universal Design meets learning spaces
Equitable use.
Flexibility in Use. Design accommodates individual abilities.
Simple and intuitive. Design easy to understand,
Perceptible information. Design communicates
Tolerance for error. Design minimizes hazards.
Low physical effort. Design can be used comfortably.
Size and space for approach and use.
8. Technology Innovation
Partnerships (CITED 2006)
Universal Design concept rooted in three areas:
1. Design of physical environments
2. Web development
3. Teaching and learning (Universal
Design for Learning).
9. Aim of UDL
UDL creates barrier-free environments that
enable teachers to apply universal design
concepts to support widest range of learner
differences.
UDL develops course content that is
proactively accessible to as many as possible.
UDL informs space design
11. Conclusions
Education at crossroads
Leadership critical
Leadership requires planning and clear goals
Designing for a globalized world
Vision for community needs
Innovative design accommodates imagination
and inclusion
12. Dziękuję
Dr. Alan Bruce
ULS Dublin
abruce@ulsystems.com
Associate Offices: BARCELONA - HELSINKI - SÃO PAULO - CHICAGO