Does your class and course materials meet the needs of diverse learners or do your materials pose barriers to the learning process?

The “Key Principles of Universal Design for Learning” focus on the three things that an instructor has to consider when developing his course content:

Key Principles of Universal Design for Learning

• Faculty can offer various ways to REPRESENT essential course concepts
• Faculty can offer various ways to encourage student ENGAGEMENT
• Faculty can offer students various formats for EXPRESSION of what they have learned

REPRESENTATION refers to how you design and deliver information to your class.
ENGAGEMENT refers to how students participate in your class.
EXPRESSION refers to how you ask students to demonstrate what they have learned.

This is an excerpt from Universal Design For Learning, San Francisco State University at http://ctfd.sfsu.edu/udl.htm