CAST Guidelines: Universal Design for Learning
CAST is developing guidelines for implementing Universal Design for
Learning in curriculum design, development and selection. The UDL Guidelines
are slated for completion and posting in late summer, 2002.
The CAST UDL guidelines will support developers, publishers and
educators wishing to create goals, methods, materials, and assessments that are
sufficiently flexible to reach all learners. The guidelines document will frame Universal
Design for Learning by providing background information and accessibility
prerequisites for UDL by linking to work such as the Web Access Initiative (WAI)
(http://www.w3.org/WAI/)
and Bobby Worldwide
(http://www.cast.org/Bobby/).
Following CAST's three principles of UDL, the guidelines will
provide examples, methods, and checkpoints for curriculum design, development, and
selection. Using the guidelines, curriculum developers and publishers can
build in flexibility from the start, and educators can assemble and combine flexible
materials that support diverse learning needs, strengths, and interests.
The completed document will offer recommendations about the optimal technical
and editorial methods for meeting the guidelines as well as a glossary of terms
and a listing of resources to assist developers, publishers, and educators.
The guidelines will provide support for creating:
- Universally designed goals
- Universally designed materials
- Universally designed methods
- Universally designed assessments.
Within each of these aspects of curriculum design, the guidelines
will address recognition, strategic, and affective differences between students
so that the maximum and most effective flexibility can be built in.
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