Catching up on some reading on sustainability teaching
I have a bunch of articles that were recommended during our LTHEChat on teaching sustainability last year that have been sitting in a special folder, waiting for a day like…
Tag: UDL
Exploring the UDL 3.0 version, inspired by an episode on the Tea for Teaching podcast
It took me a while to appreciate the UDL* framework since I first started looking into it 3 years ago. Without context, it seemed overwhelming in the amount of details…
Project presentations in the “Inclusive Classroom” course today
I am just coming home after the final presentations in the course “The Inclusive Classroom – UDL”, and this afternoon was the absolutely perfect example of why Lund University needs…
Currently reading: “The Problem with “Inclusion”? It Is Done to Someone by Someone” by Hedvall & Ericsson (2024)
I recently discussed the problems with calling for “inclusion” with a participant in my course on, ironically, “the inclusive classroom”. But she told me about colleagues working on “nonclusion”, so…
Thinking about neuropsychiatric disabilities and inclusive teaching after a seminar today
In today’s third meeting of the “Inclusive Lund University” course, Linda Stjernholm talked about “neuropsychiatric disabilities and inclusive teaching”.
My summary of a seminar about learning support for students with disabilities at LU
This afternoon, we had the second seminar in the “Inclusive Classroom” course, this time on “learning support for students with disabilities at LU”. Emma Carlsson and Philip Johansson visited us…
Kick-off of “Inclusive Classroom (UDL)” course
New academic year, new courses starting! Today, the “Inclusive Classroom (UDL)” course, that I am involved with together with Lotta Åbjörnsson and Håkan Eftring. My role is mostly to give…
Thinking about student attendance. Podcast recommendation: “Talking Learning and Teaching” with Tom Lowe
Now that we are back to (the new?) normal after the pandemic, it seems that something has changed regarding how student physically attend teaching. Why is that? That’s what Kevin…
Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (Currently reading Cumming & Rose, 2022)
I have written about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) before, and from those posts it is clear that I did struggle with the concept quite a bit before I got the…
Tips for creating inclusive classrooms at LTH (based on an article to be presented at LTH’s pedagogical conference this December)
I have been part of running a course called “the inclusive classroom” this fall. I learned a lot of new things both from other instructors (for example Louise’s excellent “office”…
An office as an analogy to explain the three brain functions
In last week’s seminar on inclusive teaching, Louise Morreau, psychologist at the student health services at Lund University, gave an inspiring presentation and used such a great image to talk…
Recommended watching: The myth of average (Todd Rose)
I recently watched “the myth of average” by Todd Rose, and he makes the most convincing argument for not designing teaching for “the average student” in hopes of that making…
Revisiting Universal Design for Learning
I have again been chewing on the “Universal Design for Learning” idea for the last couple of days. This was prompted by us agreeing that we want to let participants…
UDL bingo: challenge yourself!
There are a ton of things on my to-do list for this week before I go on vacation, but I really don’t want to do any of them right now,…
Automated subtitles in pptx presentations are so easy and super good! How did I not know about this before?
I just tried automated subtitles in pptx slides and they are SO GOOD!!! I had known for quite a while that this option exists, but had so many excuses for…
Currently reading: “Reach everyone, teach everyone: Universal design for learning in higher education” (Behling & Tobin, 2018)
“Reach everyone, teach everyone” — that title caught me right away, and I’m glad I ordered and read the book by Tobin & Behling (2018)! They manage to make Universal…
Currently reading Darby & Lang (2019) “Small teaching online — applying learning science in online classes”. My summary (2/x)
This is the second part (part 1 here) of my notes on reading “small teaching online — applying learning science in online classes” by Darby & Lang (2019). Take it…
Currently reading Darby & Lang (2019) “Small teaching online — applying learning science in online classes”. My summary (1/x)
I absolutely loved reading the “small teaching” book by Lang (2021), so I was super excited to dig into the related “small teaching online — applying learning science in online…
Thinking about “Universal Design for Learning”
Something that has been on my mind a lot lately is how to make learning situations welcoming and accessible to all students. A very obvious response is to the “accessible”…
