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  • Students as Partners with Anastasia Williams and Lorena Perales

    Students as Partners with Anastasia Williams and Lorena Perales

    In today’s conversation, we will talk about how they set up this fantastic project to get feedback on what has worked well and not so well in various courses based on real time student feedback through a variety of instruments throughout the semester. We will hear how the project was created and how it evolved…

  • Cultivating a Culture of Accessibility with Rebecca Mushtare

    Cultivating a Culture of Accessibility with Rebecca Mushtare

    In today’s conversation, Rebecca and I talk about digital accessibility practices, accessibility plans, accessibility fellows and 10-day, 5-day Accessibility challenges. But throughout this conversation we find out we all have a role to play in accessibility on our campuses and we hope this episode gives you some ideas for yours!

  • Inclusive Impactful Instruction with Kevin Merry

    Inclusive Impactful Instruction with Kevin Merry

    In today’s episode, we talk about the changing nature of higher education, mastery, feedback, and the cheese sandwich, but not the kind you eat. Tune in for an enlightening conversation with Dr. Kevin Merry and thank you for listening to this conversation on the Think UDL podcast.

  • Artificial Intelligence and Ethics with James Basham

    Artificial Intelligence and Ethics with James Basham

    In this episode we discuss AI and UDL in higher education, and how AI relates to competency based learning and various forms of assessment. We also discuss personalized learning and the ethics of how AI impacts the teaching and learning experience in higher ed. And finally, we also discuss Jamie’s work as the founder and…

  • Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility with Joe Houghton

    Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility with Joe Houghton

    This episode, episode 122, details some of the ideas from Joe’s book on AI and accessibility. We discuss tools that can be used to improve accessibility, the benefits and challenges of using AI to make courses and teaching more accessible, and what ethical concerns we should be aware of when using AI. And finally I…

  • Reflection, Curiosity and Psychological Safety with Liz Norell

    Reflection, Curiosity and Psychological Safety with Liz Norell

    In this conversation, Liz and I discuss several important UDL ideas including reflection and how to incorporate that into our classes and how beneficial it is for our own learning. We also discuss how to create psychological safety even within a course that could have many “hot-button” type issues, how to create choice and flexibility…

  • The Double Empathy Problem with Aaron Lanou and Colin Ozeki

    The Double Empathy Problem with Aaron Lanou and Colin Ozeki

    Today’s episode focuses on a mindset and technique that Aaron and Colin introduced to me that is helpful when dealing with the Double Empathy problem, which is essentially what we have when a heterogenous group of neurotypical and neurodivergent, specifically autistic, people communicate with each other. Who do we expect to bend more or less,…

  • Contextual Pathways with Lee Dale

    Contextual Pathways with Lee Dale

    In this conversation, we discuss instructional design, using technology thoughtfully, and creating contextual pathways in online learning. If you have wondered how complicated teaching itself is, we discuss the various roles that are needed for online learning to be successful which include the subject matter expert, the educator, and the role of technology in online…

  • Badges, Modules and Praxis with Thomas O’Shaughnessy

    Badges, Modules and Praxis with Thomas O’Shaughnessy

    In this episode, Thomas outlines how UDL has bloomed at the University of Limerick with a national UDL badge, faculty and staff training, and large-scale awareness and implementation of UDL. Thomas has been championing the implementation of UDL and creating more accessible and inclusive educational spaces for all and shares his great work with us…

  • Accessible Library and Information Science with Rachel Combs

    Accessible Library and Information Science with Rachel Combs

    In this conversation, Rachel and I discuss her work with Project ENABLE which stands for Expanding Non-discriminatory Access By Librarians Everywhere and which seeks to raise librarians’ understanding of the library and information needs of disabled students and develop programs, services, resources, and technologies to meet those needs. We also discuss what she is doing…