Universal Design For Learning


Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for education that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, environments, structures, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs. An Educators Guide Worksheet is a tool that supports educators when considering their classroom curriculum and environment.

iSolve It Math Puzzles: Innovative, research-based games that teach essential math reasoning and problem-solving skills.

UDL BookBuilder: Enables educators to develop their own digital books to support reading instruction literacy learning.

UDL Curriculum Self-Check: Helps educators build options and flexibility into each element of the curriculum in order to reach and engage all students.
CAST was the creator of Universal Design For Learning. They have created a number of teacher tools to support the variability of learning in your classroom.  

UDL Studio: Allows anyone to make universally designed educational materials with levels of learning supports.

UDL Exchange: Enables educators to create, mix, and share instructional resources based on UDL and aligned to the Common Core Standards.

UDL Curriculum Tool Kit: Empowers curriculum developers and researchers author and publish educational materials that are flexible and responsive to the needs of all learners.

UDL Lesson Builder: Helps educators to design lessons/units of study to meet the diverse learning challenges, skills, and background of students in today's classrooms.
Teaching Every Student: Explains and exemplifies Universal Design for Learning and its classroom applications. Also provides activities, model lessons, and toolkits to support educators.  When you visit TES, you get:
  • A rich tutorial in the research base and practical applications of UDL
  • A better understanding of how goals, methods, materials, and assessments based on Universal Design for Learning can help you reach diverse learners;
  • Tutorials, tools, activities and scaffolds to help you apply UDL in your classroom; and
  • Connections to CAST researchers, your colleagues, and others interested in using UDL to reach all learners and help them succeed.
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Welcome to the CAST UDL online modules. 
These two online modules introduce the theory, principles and application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to teacher candidates and in-service teachers. They provide higher education faculty with a multimedia, interactive online-learning environment that can be embedded in instructional methods courses. They are designed to be flexible enough to be used as part of an online, hybrid or face-to-face course. It is suggested that you create an interactive community of practice using a blog, wiki or other type of interactive web 2.0 media.
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