UDL – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Catching up on some reading on sustainability teaching

Mirjam — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:16:02 +0000

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 today where the best thing to do (right after a dip and a looong, comfy breakfast) is to curl up on the couch and read. […]

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Exploring the UDL 3.0 version, inspired by an episode on the Tea for Teaching podcast

mglessmer — Sat, 31 May 2025 15:04:41 +0000

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 that we are supposed to consider when designing teaching. Initially, I tried making sense of all the different facets by finding examples of what they […]

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Project presentations in the “Inclusive Classroom” course today

mglessmer — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:33:36 +0000

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 a course like this. The course itself is set up almost like a seminar series: A number of speakers come and share their experience on […]

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Currently reading: “The Problem with “Inclusion”? It Is Done to Someone by Someone” by Hedvall & Ericsson (2024)

mglessmer — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:26:45 +0000

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 here I am reading up on it. Hedvall and Ericsson (2024) summarise it in their article’s title already: “The Problem with “Inclusion”? It Is Done […]

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Thinking about neuropsychiatric disabilities and inclusive teaching after a seminar today

mglessmer — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:39:30 +0000

In today’s third meeting of the “Inclusive Lund University” course, Linda Stjernholm talked about “neuropsychiatric disabilities and inclusive teaching”. She started out with my favourite “office analogy” to explain the three main brain functions (see in more detail in the post below). An office as an analogy to explain the three brain functions In a […]

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My summary of a seminar about learning support for students with disabilities at LU

mglessmer — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:27:18 +0000

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 and told us about their work at the Disability Support Services (which are a unit at the Study Support and Learning group within Lund University […]

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Kick-off of “Inclusive Classroom (UDL)” course

mglessmer — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:15:40 +0000

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 guidance and advice for projects and reports towards the end of the course, but I’m attending the other meetings, too, just because it is always […]

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Thinking about student attendance. Podcast recommendation: “Talking Learning and Teaching” with Tom Lowe

mglessmer — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 08:24:52 +0000

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 L. Merry and Tom Lowe are exploring on the “Talking Learning and Teaching” podcast. To me, one sentence really stood out: “One student can have many […]

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Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (Currently reading Cumming & Rose, 2022)

mglessmer — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:28:37 +0000

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 point and it slowly grew on me. Before I came across the “office analogy” for brain functions, I found it difficult to understand the structure […]

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Tips for creating inclusive classrooms at LTH (based on an article to be presented at LTH’s pedagogical conference this December)

mglessmer — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:25:00 +0000

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” metaphor for brain functions) and from participants (for example Damien & Rhiannon’s “design for the edges” below, a very inspiring read!). And now at the […]

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