Part 6: Before You Go

What We Covered

• The goal of UDL is learner agency.
• There is no average learner, so we design for variability from the start.
• The UDL Guidelines are a scaffold, not a checklist. Access is a good place to begin.
• UDL resource collections are full of ideas to try.
• Barriers live in the design, and teams can reduce them together.

Design Your Next Step with LUDIA

Throughout this tour I asked you to keep a real learning experience, unit or meeting in mind. LUDIA is where you can take it next.

LUDIA = AI + UDL. It is a no-cost, multilingual AI thought partner for educators and learning leaders. Jérémie Rostan and I co-created it, as two educators, so that every educator can have access to Universal Design for Learning.

• Shaped around your context. Tell LUDIA about your learners, your design or your question, and it helps you think through UDL for your own class, school and learners.
• Design-first. LUDIA looks for barriers in the design, not in the learner.
• Grounded in CAST’s UDL Guidelines. LUDIA refers to the CAST UDL framework and points you back to CAST as the source.
• No cost, no catch. No paywalls, tiers or subscriptions, and no account to create.
• Private by architecture. Your chats are not stored on LUDIA’s servers.
• Multilingual. LUDIA works in 13 languages, with more coming.

Keep Going

• UDL Essentials LiveBinder: essential information about UDL for all educators and school leaders, by Dr. Loui Lord Nelson and me. The two webinar summaries on bias and identity come from here.
• The UDL Gears and UDL in 15 Minutes: Dr. Loui Lord Nelson’s graphic, and her podcast where instructional leaders share how they are implementing UDL.
• Subscribe to UDL Connections, the quarterly newsletter from the Ohio UDL Collaborative, and go back to the UDL resource collections from Part 4 when you design.
• And when you need a pause, UDL Resources has a place to take a break.