Our 1st International UDL Symposium: Learning Together

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for addressing the educational needs of diverse and variable learners in many settings across many stages of life. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. 

The purpose of this inaugural UDL International Conference is create an opportunity for those at all stages of their UDL journey to come together and share their learning.  We invite those using UDL in their practice, researchers, and experts across a variety of educational and inclusion settings to facilitate workshops where we can further develop our knowledge, understanding and practice of UDL.

This year's symposium will be an in-person event, hosted by Maynooth University On Thursday June 8 and Friday June 9 2023. 

Submission Guidelines

UDL International Symposium: Learning Together is seeking proposals for our 1st Symposium: Learning Together. We invite national and international experts across a variety of educational and inclusion fields to submit proposals to facilitate workshops/paper presentations.

Workshops/Presentations will be 45 minutes long. Facilitators agree to make all materials (slides, handouts, video, etc.) and interactions accessible and inclusive. All materails must be submitted by Monday May 8, 2023.

Deadline for proposals is Friday February 10, 2023 by 5pm GMT

• Digests (500 words max)  describing the topic of your workshop/session.
• Short Bio

Session Tags

We are looking for proposals that represent a wide variety of content areas and age levels. To this end, please choose ONE primary tag that best represents the topic you will be present, and as many sub-tags as appropriate.

• Session Tags
  • Learning, teaching and assessment
  • Research
  • Enactment/Implementation at system level
  • Technology
  • UDL as a framework for inclusion
  • UDL and other initiatives
• Sub-Tags
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Primary
  • Post-Primary/Secondary
  • Further and Higher Education
  • Professional Development

List of Topics

• UDL in prcatice
• UDL research
• Equity, diversity, inclusion and UDL
• Enacting UDL 
• Do you have anoher idea? We would love to hear about it!

Invited Speakers

CAST team members

Publication

Presenters are invited to submit a paper (1500 words maximum) to be published in our conference proceedings by Monday May 8, 2023.

UDL Ire23 proceedings will be published in the Maynooth University Research Archive Library -MURAL 

Venue

The conference will be held in Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Margaret.Flood@mu.ie