Please note that the EDC Institute is committed to facilitating an inclusive learning experience. If you require accommodations or have any dietary needs that might affect your experience at the conference, please send an email to faculty.development@sheridancollege.ca
21st century pedagogy in Higher Ed has reached several crucial cross-roads. These are raising considerable challenges with regards to change management, but also offer phenomenal opportunities for sustainable growth towards the Inclusion of all learners. Current challenges in Higher Ed force us to rethink the very way we embrace learner diversity, but also the way we collaborate as professionals on our campuses, the way we integrate emerging societal trends and the way we conceptualize post-secondary learning and teaching generally. It is within this complex and changing landscape that the potential of Universal Design for Learning as a sustainable systemic framework for Inclusion must be considered. This interactive session will examine the impact of UDL as a tool for the management of change in our campus practices from these multiple perspectives.
Too often we consider diversity to be an issue, not an asset. However, our complex, interconnected, and technology-heavy world needs diversified, collaborative life-long learners. All learners should reach their unique potential. And education plays a crucial role in nurturing diverse perspectives, needs, and approaches.
Learn how to ‘design’ education through inclusive design practices and thinking. Participants will engage in co-design activities to prototype learning resources and processes that foster diversity and inclusion in our classrooms and in our society.
