Everyone's Different! Accessibility cannot be an afterthought as designing for accessibility benefits all. By applying the UDL principles in our everyday teaching and learning practices we can remove barriers to learning and provide engaging learning experiences for all. In higher education librarians try to improve student information literacy and research skills through library instruction, which should be inclusive for all. Applying UDL to online library instruction means creating instruction and learning materials that take account of everyone's differences, preferences, and abilities. The aim of library instruction (whether online or face-to-face) is to teach information literacy and research skills. UDL provides us with a variety of strategies and resources to help meet diverse learning needs, improve accessibility to learning opportunities, and increase student success. Checkout my slides from CONUL Annual Conference, where I share my experience of applying UDL principles to online library instruction thanks to my participation with the National Forum Digital Badge in Universal Design for Teaching & Learning.
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Applying UDL to online library instruction means creating instruction and learning materials that take account of everyone's differences, preferences and abilities. The aim of library instruction (whether online or face-to-face) is to teach information literacy and research skills. Information literacy skills include the ability to find, retrieve, evaluate, store, manage and to reuse information to create new knowledge or solve problems. Why UDL? Well, UDL provides us with a variety of strategies and resources to help meet diverse learning needs, improve accessibility to learning opportunities, and increase student success.
The primary goal of Library Instruction is to teach information literacy and research skills that develop independent and lifelong learning skills that can be utilized beyond the college experience. Welcoming flexibility in delivering library training and instructional materials along with offering multiple ways for students to express themselves and demonstrate their knowledge can only make for a better more engaging learning environment and improved student success. ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL...
My motivation for doing the Digital Badge in Universal Design in Teaching & Learning (UDL) was to learn how to use the principles and practices of UDL to try and get students to actively engage in using library resources, by embracing and formally embedding UDL into library instruction, both online and face-face. The digital badge was developed by AHEAD and UCD Access & Lifelong Learning and brought to you by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.. Applying UDL to library instruction means designing instruction that is accessible to all students accounting for everyone’s abilities and differences. The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning design by CAST, the 3 principles are:
Source: CAST (2020). The UDL guidelines. Available from: http://udlguidelines.cast.org/?utm_source=castsite&lutm_medium=web&utm_campaign=none&utm_content=aboutudl Welcoming flexibility in delivering library training and instructional materials along with offering multiple ways for students to express themselves and demonstrate their knowledge can only make for a better more engaging learning environment. WAVE is an accessibility evaluation tool to help make your web content more accessible. WAVE cannot tell you if the web content is fully accessible, but it can help you evaluate the accessibility. The tool is provided by WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind), checkout https://wave.webaim.org/ to start using this free tool, simply put in your webpage address and view the report to see what errors or issues you might have to fix on your webpage. Keep updating the page until all the errors and alerts are fixed. Please note that the absence of errors does not necessarily mean that your page is accessible; more checking may be required. The main aim of this tool is to have no red errors on the page, followed by no yellow alerts. So start checking your images, heading, contrast, links and more! |
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