Universal Design for Tertiary Education
Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education – eLearning Launch Event
Join us on International Day of People with Disability, Friday 3 December from 1pm-2:15pm AEDT as the Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training launch Australia’s first free online Universal Design for Learning in tertiary education eLearning training.
To mark this special occasion, Dr Frederic Fovet, Associate Professor, School of Education and Technology, Royal Roads University, Canada will be our guest speaker, followed by an official launch of the Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education eLearning Training.
- 1pm – 2:00pm AEDT: From curiosity to systemic implementation: Making UDL buy-in a strategic institutional reality presented by Dr. Frederic Fovet. Includes question and answer opportunity.
- 2:00pm – 2:15pm: Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education eLearning Training official launch
Dr Frédéric Fovet
Dr Frédéric Fovet is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Technology at Royal Roads University.
He has previously held the position of Assistant Professor within the Faculty of Education of the University of Prince Edward Island.
Over the duration of his PhD., he was Director of the Office of Students with Disabilities at McGill University. He has also served as a teacher and principal in the K-12 sector.
He is an inclusion specialist with a specific interest in social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD), critical pedagogy and universal design for learning (UDL).
Frederic also has a strong grounding in Disability Studies. He acts as a consultant, both nationally and internationally, in the area of UDL and inclusion – in the K-12 and the post-secondary sector. He was the instigator and program chair of the first three pan-Canadian conferences on UDL in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Presentation Overview
From curiosity to systemic implementation: Making UDL buy-in a strategic institutional reality
There has been growing but sporadic interest around Universal Design for Learning across the post-secondary sector in most jurisdictions over the last decade.
This, in itself is encouraging and there is no doubt that the notion that inclusion must be achieved through proactive inclusive design rather than through retrofitting and accommodations is finally gaining in popularity and visibility.
While many of the initiatives seeking to implement UDL are effective and credible, these are usually led by individual instructors or small communities of practice.
As such, they represent powerful illustrations of UDL in action but they fail to tackle the complexity of how systemic implementation can be achieved across institutions.
This presentation will offer an ecological view of the numerous factors that come into play when institutions consider campus-wide UDL implementation, and will prepare participants to proactively prepare for this complexity.
It is undeniable that the COVID pandemic and the pivot to online teaching and learning have further muddied the waters, and the presentation will seek to explore what specific post-pandemic UDL efforts are now necessary.
- If you would like to showcase some of the work you have been involved with in implementing UDL principles please contact admin@adcet.edu.au