UDL & Apps
Exploring how technology helps develop expert learners
Glossary
Benchmark - A standard or point of reference against which things may be compared or assessed
Capstone - The crowning achievement, point, element, or event
Copyright - In general, copyright means the sole right to produce or reproduce a work or a substantial part of it in any form.
Creative Commons Licence - A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created.
Fair Use/Fair Dealing - Statutory exception to copyright infringement. To qualify under the fair dealing exception, the dealing must be for a purpose such as research, private study, education, parody, satire, criticism or review and news reporting), and the dealing must be fair. (Wikipedia)
Meta-Teaching - Like meta-cognition and meta-learning, meta-teaching, as ‘teaching about teaching’, can serve to design, examine and reflect on teaching. This page provides more information the dual conversation professional educators have that supports Meta-Teaching.
Milestone - An action or event marking a significant change or stage in development
Rubric - A coherent set of criteria for (learners') work that includes descriptions of levels of performance quality on the criteria
Universal Design for Learning - UDL has three core principles (Meyer, Rose & Gordon, 2013):
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Multiple Means of Engagement
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Multiple Means of Representation
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Multiple Means of Action and Expression
UDL is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences. (Wikipedia)