Guided Tour

Part 1: Welcome

Meet your guide and find your way around.

By Beth Stark, M.S.Ed., CPACC

Sketch portrait of Beth Stark, smiling, with long dark hair and freckles.

Hello, and Welcome

I’m Beth Stark, and I’ll be your guide.

UDL Resources is a no-cost collection for anyone learning about Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Some of the resources are mine. Others come from people and organisations I trust, including CAST, Dr. Loui Lord Nelson and the organisations behind the UDL resource collections.

This tour is a short introduction to the collection. Each part has three steps: Learn a key idea, Explore the resources yourself, and Reflect on one question.

The Goal of UDL

Everything in this collection points back to one goal.

“The goal of UDL is learner agency that is purposeful & reflective, resourceful & authentic, strategic & action-oriented.”
CAST (2024)

You will come back to this goal in Part 2.

Before You Start

Open UDL Resources in another tab, so you can look around as we go.
Try Accessibility and Settings in the site menu. You can change the font, text size, spacing and colours, or have the page read aloud.
Bring something real to the tour, such as a learning experience, a unit or a meeting you are designing.

Beth’s Tip

Keep your learning experience, unit or meeting in mind the whole way through. Each part will mean more when you can connect it to something you are already doing.

Explore About 2 minutes

Open Choose a Topic on UDL Resources. Look inside each of the four topics. Notice one resource you want to come back to.

Reflect

What do you already know about UDL, and what do you hope to get from this tour?

References and credits

CAST (2024). CAST Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 3.0. Retrieved from https://udlguidelines.cast.org

This guided tour was created by Beth Stark, Educator and Consultant · Inclusive Learning Systems · UDL · Accessibility. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.