Welcome to Episode 69 of the Think UDL podcast: Teach to Reach with Mary Ann Tobin. Mary Ann Tobin is an Assistant Research Professor and Instructional Consultant at the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at the Pennsylvania State University. Mary Ann has been up to great good at Penn State introducing UDL to faculty, administrators, and her fantastic colleagues in non-academic areas with great results. Today’s conversation takes us into a discussion about how to “sell” UDL to faculty, administration, and others on campus, how to present UDL if you want to get university buy-in, who to befriend, and why and how this might be beneficial to your faculty and your school as a whole. Along the way, we talk about how important UDL is for today’s students and how UDL has become the solution to problems we didn’t even know we were going to have! Thank you for joining us as we discuss how UDL transforms learning for the better.
ResourcesFollow Mary Ann on Twitter @Matobincat or email her at matobin@psu.edu
And find out more about Mary Ann Tobin on her Penn State Website link
Check out the Teach to Reach website that Mary Ann mentions in our conversation and see the Schreyer Institute’s UDL website for Penn State, or watch the webinar Universal Design for Learning: It’s Just Good Design for more great UDL faculty Development ideas
Here are some resources that Mary Ann has graciously shared with us, including UDL research she mentions in our conversation:
Student Disability Resources Survey Report: Spring 2021
ECAR Study of the Technology Needs of Students with Disabilities
ECAR 2019 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology
Don’t Forget we both highly recommend Thomas Tobin and Kirsten Behling’s Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education for a fantastic introduction to UDL for faculty and faculty developers alike. And she even knows the author!