What we think of as traditional classrooms are fading into the past. Rigid classroom designs with rows of forward-facing seats with an instructor at the head of the class are increasingly vestiges of ...

When students take a course, they experience more than just an interaction with course content. The learning environment includes the intellectual, social, emotional and physical environments of a ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to course and learning-environment design that anticipates student differences rather than reacting to it. Instead of creating a “standard” version ...

There are two approaches for supporting students that are based on whether they promote equality, or equity. Equality: Providing equal support to all students. For example, this support could include ...

Here’s how our LMS supports UDL and helps us create an anytime-anywhere learning environment for students who get taught from where they are—not from where we “think” they are ...

Typically, providing equal access in class means providing individual accommodations to every student with a disability. Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which originated from the architectural ...