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Digital Badge in UDL - Oct-Dec 2023

Deadline for registration: 19th September 2023 

What: Free 10 week introductory course on Universal Design for Learning running groups simultaneously for Irish HE and FET staff. 

Available to: Strictly for staff currently working in Higher Education or Further Education and Training in the Republic of Ireland. Places allocated on a first come first served basis. Participants must have some teaching activity planned during week 5-9 (October 24th – December 5th) that they can work on as part of the UDL Redesign Activity (can be individual class, group of classes, training session or assignment - flexible). Book quickly to avoid disappointment.

When: The course runs from Oct 2nd - Dec 11th. 

Time Involved: Approx 25 hours over 10 weeks, roughly 2.5 hours per week. Optional 5 hour add-on for participants interested in rolling this open course out to colleagues in the future. Feel free to download the full course schedule.

More information: A Zoom session held in May provided potential participants with information about the course; view the recording of that session here.

Course Information: This Autumn, AHEAD and UCD Access & Lifelong Learning are teaming up to jointly deliver the Digital Badge for Universal Design in Teaching and Learning once again in a fully online format. This digital badge course, hosted by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning, will provide participants with a strong introduction to the Universal Design for Learning Framework and give them the opportunity to implement UDL approaches within the teaching activities they are currently undertaking. But this year there's a  big difference to how we're running the course. Where typically we would run the course for about 35 people, this year we are teaming up with previously trained UDL badge facilitators to offer this course to 1,000+ participants simultaneously in FET and HE - the largest national roll out of UDL CPD ever undertaken in Ireland. So sign up to be a part of it and join the growing Irish UDL community.

All the materials for the course are open to the public and are licensed under Creative Commons.

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How the UDL Badge Course Works

In partnership with UCD 

This initiative is delivered by AHEAD and UCD as part of key strategic partnership to promote universal design in further and higher education

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SUPPorted BY SOLAS

The core funding received by AHEAD for its further education activities on fostering inclusion is provided by SOLAS.

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SUPPORTED BY the HEA

The core funding received by AHEAD for its higher education activities is provided by the Higher Education Authority.

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