Beyond the Guidelines: UDL Strategy-Development Meta-Pathways

Senior Teaching and Learning Developer

Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Join Thomas Tobin for an interactive webinar exploring the . In this webinar, we’ll take a deep dive into the “design” side of universal design for learning (UDL). Guideline 6 is about “strategy development,” which is usually framed around the actions that learners take in order to plan, monitor, and control their own learning—all we have to do as designers and instructors is to create starting points and possible pathways for them. But that assumes that instructors and learners are in a differential power dynamic of in loco parentis caregiving—more often the case in K-12 settings. In colleges and universities, our learners are adults with fully developed brains and ways of thinking. Strategy development looks different, includes more actors than just the learners and encompasses larger structures than activities, units, and courses.

Presenter Bio:

Thomas J. Tobin, PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOT, CPACC is a founding member of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as an internationally recognized scholar, author, and speaker on technology-mediated education. His books include

• Evaluating Online Teaching (2015).

• The Copyright Ninja (2017).

• Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: UDL in Higher Education (2018).

• Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers (2020).

• Implementing UDL in Irish Further Education and Training (2021).

• UDL at Scale (forthcoming 2025).

• Evaluating Teaching in the Digital Era (forthcoming 2026).

Find him on various social media and at thomasjtobin.com.

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This webinar is recommended for faculty, instructional designers, librarians, tutors, academic advisors, and other personnel.

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