Meeting_12_12

=December 8, 2011=

**What are we about? **
 * UDL in higher Ed and/or UDL in undergrad programs? General agreement that we need to get our house in order in term of implementing UDL in our courses . Undergrad students will learn by seeing it modeled and by being involved as learners in a UDL environment.
 * Need to decide on a definition of UDL for our purposes.
 * We need a cohort of people who are interested in exploring ways to incorporate UDL into their courses.
 * Outcomes:
 * Eventually we would aim to spread it across campus. CTL offers a Beginning Instructor program: should they be involved? Can they be a distribution point to reach out to the Campus? Amy will contact Genevieve to see if they would like to join the group ?
 * Would an eventual outcome be that every grad student must take a module on UDL? Every instructor must complete a designation?

**Selecting a chair**
 * role:
 * to ensure and facilitate regular meetings
 * to ensure that any work that needs to be done gets done (by delegation)
 * Amy agreed to take on the chair role with the caveat that she cannot provide leadership as she does not have a UDL background and can only provide the group with organizational support.

**Resources **: > (another perspective from the one Dave presented)
 * //Accessibility in Action//, TAM ("a nice clean dirty" overview of the field.) Purchase price: $22.00 from http://www.tamcec.org/publications/planning-tools/
 * Edyburn, (2010)[[file:WOULD_YOU_RECOGNIZE_UNIVERSAL_DESIGN_FOR_LEARNING_IF_YOU_SAW_IT.pdf]]
 * UDL Guidelines (essential reading) http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines
 * //Universal Design in Postsecondary Settings// (a book recommended by Kathy Howrey )

 **Funding**
 * U of A has internal sources of funding, as does University of Lethbridge.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">U of A: TLEF grant deadline coming up in early February; after discussion it was agreed that we wouldn't be ready to submit a proposal by then.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SSHRC deadlines:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">what is scope of projects are we looking at? different pots of money have different capacities.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General sense is that we need to move a little further along our path before we will be ready to identify specific projects

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Other Discussion**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will use the wiki as a central place to share our individual experiences and our work as a group. Amy will manage the wiki and make sure everyone has access.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will start by setting up a place to begin to share note-taking experiences and implementation logistics since a number of people are already working in this area. Amy will set up an area for this in the wiki.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">can we look at how students use the implementations to gather data in terms of uptake (eg notes in Moodle)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will need to consider that research is the faculty priority;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">it will be a challenge to get buy-in for projects with a teaching focus
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this is hugely under-researched area so we can drive this in a way that is beneficial to our faculty, and our students
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">projects- need to be purposely grounded in UDL
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">eCampus checklist of what to include in courses will include a UDL component is being developed. Gov’t is driving this. This provides influence.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">David Edyburn will be in Edmonton February 9. http://www.erlc.ca/programs/theme.php?theme=32

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Moving Forward **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We agreed to have set meetings once a month:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Fridays mornings best, afternoons OK, avoiding reading week. Amy to send out a survey to find a time. Next meeting will be late in January.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suggested topics for meetings:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">what should Dave say at his next meeting?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can we get Dave to help us bring together people who are already doing it to give us some hands on experience?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> We agreed to read the following before our next meeting
 * //Accessibility in Action//, TAM Purchase price: $22.00 from http://www.tamcec.org/publications/planning-tools/ (U of A folks please note that copies of the guide has been ordered for you.)
 * Edyburn, (2010)[[file:WOULD_YOU_RECOGNIZE_UNIVERSAL_DESIGN_FOR_LEARNING_IF_YOU_SAW_IT.pdf]]
 * UDL Guidelines http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines
 * Everyone is encouraged to become members of the wiki and to start contributing.