THIRD PAN-CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING
Connecting the Dots – Sharing Promising Practices across Country
The Third Pan-Canadian Conference on UDL will take place at Royal Roads University October 2- 4, 2019. This represents an exceptional opportunity for UDL advocates, scholars and practitioners from across Canada and beyond to share their expertise, introduce their projects and present research findings. The conference will showcase the current development of UDL implementation across Canada, in both the K-12 sector and the Higher Education landscape; it will also serve as a timely venue to strengthen the Canadian voice around UDL and look ahead to its sustainable development. We are also hoping to have participants from overseas in order create optimal opportunities for cross-pollination and cross-border comparative analyses.
Context
The Pan-Canadian Conference on UDL first took place in 2015 at McGill University with the theme Canadian Perspectives: Sowing the Seeds, Facilitating the Change, Nurturing the Growth. In 2017, the conference was hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island under the theme Bringing User Experience to Education – UDL & Inclusion for the 21st Century. Both conferences were extremely popular for allowing the emergence of a genuine Canadian discourse on UDL. They succeeded in bringing together scholars and practitioners from almost every province in Canada. They have also planted the seeds for the creation of a Canadian non-profit designed to promote UDL across the country, and we are hoping to see this idea become a reality in October.
Who should attend?
The Conference has traditionally attracted UDL advocates and practitioners from four distinct fields: the K-12 sector, Higher Education, Accessibility Services and Student Services, and Instructional Designers. We are inviting submission from these four group of stakeholders and hope to have these streams represented in all sets of breakout sessions through the three days. Presentations in the past have included both traditional research findings and practitioner exposés. We hope to see this diversity maintained during the October event. Presenters will be able to stipulate in their abstracts whether they are sharing traditional research or best practices. We welcome abstracts from Canadian authors that directly address the theme of the Conference. We also welcome international researchers and practitioners interested in establishing comparative trans-border analysis, or to showcase promising practices from overseas that can trigger reflection and dialogue here in Canada.
Themes, streams and key topics
There will be four streams on offer within the conference:
Connecting the Dots – Sharing Promising Practices across Country
The Third Pan-Canadian Conference on UDL will take place at Royal Roads University October 2- 4, 2019. This represents an exceptional opportunity for UDL advocates, scholars and practitioners from across Canada and beyond to share their expertise, introduce their projects and present research findings. The conference will showcase the current development of UDL implementation across Canada, in both the K-12 sector and the Higher Education landscape; it will also serve as a timely venue to strengthen the Canadian voice around UDL and look ahead to its sustainable development. We are also hoping to have participants from overseas in order create optimal opportunities for cross-pollination and cross-border comparative analyses.
Context
The Pan-Canadian Conference on UDL first took place in 2015 at McGill University with the theme Canadian Perspectives: Sowing the Seeds, Facilitating the Change, Nurturing the Growth. In 2017, the conference was hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island under the theme Bringing User Experience to Education – UDL & Inclusion for the 21st Century. Both conferences were extremely popular for allowing the emergence of a genuine Canadian discourse on UDL. They succeeded in bringing together scholars and practitioners from almost every province in Canada. They have also planted the seeds for the creation of a Canadian non-profit designed to promote UDL across the country, and we are hoping to see this idea become a reality in October.
Who should attend?
The Conference has traditionally attracted UDL advocates and practitioners from four distinct fields: the K-12 sector, Higher Education, Accessibility Services and Student Services, and Instructional Designers. We are inviting submission from these four group of stakeholders and hope to have these streams represented in all sets of breakout sessions through the three days. Presentations in the past have included both traditional research findings and practitioner exposés. We hope to see this diversity maintained during the October event. Presenters will be able to stipulate in their abstracts whether they are sharing traditional research or best practices. We welcome abstracts from Canadian authors that directly address the theme of the Conference. We also welcome international researchers and practitioners interested in establishing comparative trans-border analysis, or to showcase promising practices from overseas that can trigger reflection and dialogue here in Canada.
Themes, streams and key topics
There will be four streams on offer within the conference:
- K-12 teachers
- Higher Ed Instructors
- Accessibility Services, Student Services and Student Affairs
- Instructional Designers
- Introducing UDL to institutions
- Developing communities of practice around UDL
- Scaling up initial UDL efforts
- Management of change and organizational transformation around UDL
- Innovative UDL practices within specific disciplines
- Creating osmosis between UDL and other theoretical frameworks
- Creating interdisciplinary approaches to UDL work
- Seeking sustainability in UDL initiatives
- Developing UDL resources
- The student voice in UDL implementation
- Uncharted Paths
Gold Sponsor: BCcampus
Silver Sponsor: Blackboard ALLY
Silver Sponsor: ReadSpeaker
A1 size used and unused UDL posters