Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to course and learning-environment design that anticipates student differences rather than reacting to it. Instead of creating a “standard” version ...

When students take a course, they experience more than just an interaction with course content. The learning environment includes the intellectual, social, emotional and physical environments of a ...

There are two approaches for supporting students that are based on whether they promote equality, or equity. Equality: Providing equal support to all students. For example, this support could include ...

For generations, school facilities have been designed for the average student, leaving neurodiverse individuals to struggle in environments that don’t meet their needs. Recently, however, the growing ...

Rapid technological change is impacting aspects of how learners currently engage with global sustainability challenges; for example, platforms, interactive ...

The University of Central Oklahoma’s Institute for Learning Environment Design (ILED), part of the university’s Center for eLearning and Connected Environments (CeCE), once again earned recognition ...

Typically, providing equal access in class means providing individual accommodations to every student with a disability. Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which originated from the architectural ...