Revising Social & Environmental Justice Open Educational Resources through UDL and Accessibility Lenses

Tamara Basham, Laura Catano, Stephanie Gardner, Amee Evans Godwin, David J. Groh, Rachel Hutto, Pat Marsteller, Mary Mulcahy, Hayley Orndorf, Molly Phillips, Beatriz Villar

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Universal Design for Learning

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Challenges

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• Framing social justice issues for classes
• Finding datasets appropriate for different levels
• Adapting material for rural students
• Making maps, graphs & visual data accessible
• Accessibility of software and other resources
• Incorporating UDL checkpoints in Representation & Action & Expression

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Next Steps

• Continue as a working group through the spring semester
• Aiming to address identified challenges
• FMN Opportunity: Applying Universal Design for Learning Principles to Existing Cases

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Resources

• Introduction to UDL & UDL Mapping Activity
• Working Group Final Products
• Includes example UDL Mappings
• Collection of Resources

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