Audiobooks, accessibility tools & Universal Design for Learning: breaking down barriers Dr Sarah Pittaway Library Services @ The Hive, University of Worcester s.pittaway@worc.ac.uk / @dr_sarah_p Michelle Malomo School of Education, University of Worcester m.malomo@worc.ac.uk

How can different ways of reading break down barriers to education? @Dr_Sarah_P How can different ways of reading break down barriers to education? How can they enhance student success?

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Universal Design for Learning @Dr_Sarah_P Universal Design for Learning

Dr Abigail Moriarty - DMU Director of Teaching and Learning Anticipatory Adjustments – DMU UDL Equal Equitable DSA model is equitable, i.e. making adjustments for those that need it UDL is about taking down the barriers. This is the challenge – what is the barrier to learning? Multi-modality is key – there is no one size fits all approach This is making reasonable adjustments to barriers to learning Reproduced with permission from Dr Abi Moriarty

What does "interacting with texts in different ways" mean? @Dr_Sarah_P What does "interacting with texts in different ways" mean?

We wanted to link audiobooks in our Resource (reading) Lists. @Dr_Sarah_P We wanted to link audiobooks in our Resource (reading) Lists. This is not without its problems!

We added accessibility tools to our lists instead @Dr_Sarah_P We added accessibility tools to our lists instead

30 out of around 200 students clicked on these tools @Dr_Sarah_P 30 out of around 200 students clicked on these tools

We've still got work to do... Our next step is talking to the students @Dr_Sarah_P We've still got work to do... Our next step is talking to the students WATCH THIS SPACE!