Across campus, academic professionals (e.g., instructional designers or eLearning specialists) and instructors utilize UDL principles in their products or curriculum that promote or optimize teaching or learning. Several case studies highlight examples of how their product or curriculum reaches students in different ways.
eText@Illinois
eText is a browser-based, multimedia-capable, fully accessible platform to deliver original, instructor-developed course content and previously-published textbooks in a cost-efficient manner. It is built to take advantage of class roster cohorts, eText allows for two-way communication between students and instructors (both typed and freehand) as well as embedded assessments and practice problems linked from learning management systems on Campus.
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Alternative Descriptions for Graphic Novels
What are the best practices for making a graphic novel accessible to all students? A team of designers and an art education graduate student from the University of Illinois’ Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning tackled this problem in a Speech and Hearing Science course they developed in the Fall of 2019. The team used formal analysis and accessibility best practices to create multiple ways to access the content—an important concept in Universal Design for Learning.
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ePub Work at Gies – Accessibility at Scale with 500,000 Learners
Gies College of Business offers nearly 100 MOOC courses through the University’s relationship with Coursera. These courses are free to the public but are also used as the formative content for our graduate degree programs, the iMBA, iMSA (Accounting), and iMSM (Management).