Universal Design for Learning as an Educational Strategy

It’s time to start celebrating learning differences and neurodiversity as we shape our education systems for the future. One way to ensure that more students connect with what they’re learning is to adopt a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach. First introduced by the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the 1990s, UDL has become popular in schools across Australia, helping to normalize the notion that there is no “average” learner. Let’s take a closer look at what it is and how it’s being implemented in classrooms and online learning settings across the nation.

Designed to make learning more equitable for all, UDL was first introduced in the 90s by David H. Rose, Ed.D., of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as well as the Center for Applied Sciences and Technology (CAST), and consists of three main principles………………………………………………………………………………..