News

Showing items tagged udl. Show All

Save the Date: National Distance Learning Week Lunchtime Series

Join us for lunchtime conversations on Nov 2 and Nov 4

Online learning has become an established part of higher education, but its continued growth raises questions that extend well beyond enrollment. Students need flexible, high-quality learning...

Posted: October 7, 2026, 9:56 AM

Logo for National Distance Learning Week (NDLW)

6 Ways to Make Complex STEM Content More Accessible

Keep STEM rigorous while opening up student access

A student opens the problem set and finds an equation embedded as an image. She understands the math, but her screen reader can't interpret the notation. Later, the assignment asks her to analyze...

Posted: October 6, 2026, 10:00 AM

CoRE Learning Design logo with four connected nodes around a central core and arrow, representing an equitable learning pathway.

UDL at the Heart: Designing Learning with Every Student in Mind

Small design changes. Massive student impact.

Students don't all learn in the same way. They bring different experiences, strengths, needs, expectations, technologies, and approaches to learning into our courses. Yet many course designs still...

Posted: September 8, 2026, 10:00 AM

CoRE Learning Design logo with four connected nodes around a central core and arrow, representing an equitable learning pathway.

[Online-Insights] 5 Ways to Co-Create Communication Norms

Establish expectations early to build community and trust

Every student arrives in an online course with their own sense of what "respectful" or "professional" communication looks like, shaped by culture, prior schooling, workplace norms, and plenty of...

Posted: September 3, 2026, 3:45 PM

An open book connected with a virtual network.

[Online Insights] 4 Strategies to Reduce Student Anxiety at the Start

The first five minutes matter in your online course

Picture a student logging into your course for the first time. They see a homepage with six modules, a syllabus buried two folders deep, and no indication of where to start. So they click around....

Posted: August 20, 2026, 2:30 PM

An open book connected with a virtual network.