Universal Design for Learning : Theory and Practice

Anne Meyer

ISBN 10: 0989867404 / ISBN 13: 9780989867405

Verlag: CAST, Inc., 2013

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Anne Meyer and David Rose, who first laid out the principles of UDL, provide an ambitious, engaging discussion of new research and best practices. This book gives the UDL field an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years.In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to improve teaching and learning in the digital age, sparking an international reform movement. Now Meyer and Rose return with Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice, an up-to-date multimedia book that leverages more than a decade of research and implementation.This is the first significant new statement on UDL since 2002, an ambitious, engaging exploration of ideas and best practices that provides the growing UDL field with an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years. This new work includes contributions from CAST's research and implementation teams as well as from many of CAST's collaborators in schools, universities, and research settings. Readers are invited to contribute ideas, perspectives, and examples from their own practice in an online community of practice.Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice includes:New insights from research on learner differences and how human variability plays out in learning environmentsResearch-based discussions of what it means to become an expert at learningFirst-hand examples of how to design and implement UDL at all levels and across subjects using the UDL Guidelines'Dig Deeper' segments that enrich the main contentDozens of original videos and illustrationsA blended multimedia presentation with interactive activities and tools to save and share notesOpportunities to connect with other educators to share ideas and best practices.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780989867405

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Universal Design for Learning : Theory and Practice
• Verlag: CAST, Inc.
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0989867404
• ISBN-13: 9780989867405
• Bindung: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced universal design for learning (UDL), a framework to improve teaching and learning. Based on new insights from the learning sciences and creative uses of digital technologies. UDL can help educators improve and optimize learning experiences for all individuals. In this book, Meyer and Rose, along with David Gordon, provide the first comprehensive presentations of UDL principles and practices since 2002. This new look at UDL includes contributions from CAST's research and implementation teams, as well as their collaborators in schools, universities, and research settings. Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice includes: • New insights from research on learner differences and how human variability plays out in learning environments • Research-based discussions of what it means to become expert at learning • First-hand accounts and exemplars of how to implement UDL at all levels and across subjects using the UDL Guidelines • “Dig Deeper” segments that enrich the main content • Dozens of original illustrations and access to videos and other online features at http://udltheorypractice.cast.org • Opportunities to participate in a UDL community

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Anne Meyer, EdD, is co-founder of CAST, a nonprofit education research and development organization. Building on a career-long interest in the intersection of curriculum design and educational psychology, particularly affect and motivation in learning, Dr. Meyer is a primary author of the principles of universal design for learning (UDL).

David Rose, EdD, co-founder of CAST, is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning. He has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 1976. He has won a Computerworld Smithsonian Award for Innovation in Education and the Council for Exceptional Children's Lifetime Achievement Award.

David Gordon directs CAST's publishing and communications programs. He is the editor of several books about education and the former Editor of the Harvard Education Letter. He received a National Press Club Award for his education reporting. He was an Associate Editor at Newsweek magazine.