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 * ​Universal Learning Design**

universal Design for Learning (UDL)


 * Universal Design for Learning is being used through out the classroom settings to help the students become all that they can be. Below we will see what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is all about.**

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing educational environments that enable all learners to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. This is accomplished by simultaneously reducing barriers to the curriculum and providing rich supports for learning. As any educator knows, students come to the classroom with a variety of needs, skills, talents, and interests. For many learners, the typical curriculum—which includes goals, instructional methods, classroom materials, and assessments—is littered with barriers and roadblocks, while supports are relatively few. Faced with an inflexible curriculum, students and teachers are expected to make extraordinary adjustments. UDL turns this scenario around, placing the burden to adapt on the curriculum itself.
 * Universal Design for Learning **

UDL principles help educators customize their teaching for individual differences in each of these three brain networks. A universally-designed curriculum offers the following:


 * Multiple means of representation** to give learners various ways of acquiring information and knowledge
 * Multiple means of action and expression** to provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they know, and
 * Multiple means of engagement** to tap into learners' interests, challenge them appropriately, and motivate them to learn

Flexible digital media makes it easier than ever to provide these multiple alternatives and therefore customize teaching and learning.