Students learn best when they feel safe, supported and inspired by their surroundings. Classroom design can profoundly ...

True accessibility comes when it is placed at the core of teaching and learning design. Read advice for creating universally ...

UAB faculty and staff Will Brooks, Ph.D., Heather Patterson, Ph.D., and Nikki Sarabat are members of the inaugural cohort of the Learning Design and Learning Sciences master's pro ...

In K–12 schools and higher education environments, acoustics plays a critical role in supporting focus, comprehension, ...

With more than 20 years of architectural experience, Aaron Jobson, AIA, ALEP, CEO and President at Quattrocchi Kwok ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Schools should provide a window through which all students can see the future they want for themselves. Students arrive in the classroom with a diverse range of needs, and helping them succeed isn’t ...

Typically, providing equal access in class means providing individual accommodations to every student with a disability. Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which originated from the architectural ...