ULE Background

The Universal Learning Edition (ULE) view provides a variety of supports to help you learn and understand the content. The concept of ULE’s emerged from CAST’s research on Universal Design for Learning. Universal Learning Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to embed optional scaffolds and enhancements in content to enhance reading comprehension. CAST is designing and researching ULE’s for different content areas and grade levels, making flexible “smart content” to support diverse learners (for research reports see http://www.cast.org/about/index.cfm?i=295 ).

Because the Summary and Concept Map views are already available for this material, we have not included them as part of the ULE view. As a rule, those two views would be included in a ULE for the classroom because they offer alternative representations of the content and support diverse learners.