Episodes

Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Training Faculty Jedis with Danielle Wilken
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Dr. Danielle Wilken is the Provost and Dean of Students at Goodwin College. Lillian gets the chance to talk to her about the training program she has implemented for 45 faculty members to be UDL Fellows (also known as Jedis) at Goodwin. In addition, she has also radically transformed the teaching and learning environment at Goodwin College, an open enrollment college in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Creating Inclusive Space for All with Zach Smith
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
In this episode I talk to Zach Smith, a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership (Ed. L. D.) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We talk about his efforts to make some broad scale change to educational spaces based on both his family experience and his work in a rural school district in the central valley of California.

Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Got UDL Credentials? with Steve Nordmark
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
In this episode I talk to Steve Nordmark, Director of Business Development at CAST. Steve forges partnerships with global educators and entities in the field such as our very own CollegeSTAR network in order to further the knowledge of and implementation of Universal Design for Learning.

Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Engaging the Brain with Allison Posey
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Welcome to Episode 19 of the ThinkUDL podcast. In this episode I talk to author Allison Posey about her book Engage the Brain: How to Design for Learning that Taps into the Power of Emotion. Allison works as a Curriculum and Design Specialist at CAST and we had the chance to record this interview just […]

Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Responding to neurodiversity and shifting campus culture with Elizabeth Coghill
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Lillian interviews Elizabeth Coghill, Director of the Pirate Academic Success Center at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Elizabeth outlines what her tutoring center is doing on the campus of East Carolina University to implement Universal Design for Learning strategies in a holistic way that welcomes all students to campus.

Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
Partnering with Students and Faculty with Suzanne Ehrlich
Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
In this episode, Suzanne and Lillian discuss the very interesting research Suzanne and her colleagues are doing with both students and faculty on the use and efficacy of UDL at UNF, the design and delivery of her UDL course in an effort to make area connections with UDL, as well as her role as a faculty fellow to build the UDL mindset with faculty across campus.

Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
This episode includes a discussion of the application of UDL principles in music and arts classes as well as how taking a UDL lens to the curriculum causes us to re-examine the overstuffed curriculum as well as the traditional curriculum in the music field. Andrew Dell'Antonio gives us some very interesting ways to think about UDL as a pathway to decolonize the kind of work we do, not just accessibility and content-wise, but as a way to question the way we teach in higher education in the United States so that UDL is considered as a place of practice to question the way we do pedagogy and curriculum.

Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
This episode is comprised of two interviews with faculty at the University of Texas at Austin who employ UDL techniques systematically either in the classroom or in programming in order to provide access and flexibility for students.

Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Information Literacy and UDL from the BigXII Teaching and Learning Conference
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Welcome to a special edition of the ThinkUDL podcast LIVE from the 6th Annual Big 12 Teaching and Learning Conference in the Texas Union Building here on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. This episode is comprised of three short interviews with librarians who have incorporated UDL into their work with faculty […]

Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Intention, Tools, and Institutional Change with Danny Smith
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Today Lillian talks with Danny Smith, Professor of Marketing at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In this episode, Danny and Lillian discuss the ways that Universal Design for Learning principles are interwoven in the fabric of George Brown College, a 30,000 student institution in the heart of Toronto that serves many commuter students in an urban setting.