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 ...

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.

The environmental products of design major creates design leaders prepared to take on challenges facing humanity and our environment(s) through the rigorous development of design solutions. Students ...

What we think of as traditional classrooms are fading into the past. Rigid classroom designs with rows of forward-facing seats with an instructor at the head of the class are increasingly vestiges of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for curriculum created by CAST that is designed to minimize barriers to learning, in order to proactively meet the needs of all students. The ...

As societies evolve, educational facilities also undergo continuous transformation processes to keep up. In terms of their design strategies, they must embrace modern approaches that respond to the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In his research, the psychologist Robin Hogarth introduced the concepts of a wicked and a kind learning environment to illustrate the ...