Presentation Recordings

In this keynote address, Sean Bracken explored how UDL can germinate collaborative conditions required for co-designing inclusive social and learning environments which encourage learner agency and advocacy.

This insightful keynote, presented by Sean Bracken, explored how generative AI is reshaping education. Today's AI revolution offers significant potential to enhance inclusion - but also risks deepening existing educational inequalities.

This student panel examined the intersection of Universal Design for Learning, academic integrity in the AI era, and student inclusion through the lens of lived experience.

Many programs require neurodivergent students to navigate a tension between their neurodivergent identity and a narrow ideal of a professional identity. There is a need for a shift in educational culture to foster truly inclusive learning environments.

Inclusive assessment enables student success without the need for alternative or adapted assessment versions, fostering an environment that celebrates diversity and promotes student collaboration.

This presentation challenged the false dichotomy between academic rigour and inclusivity, and demonstrated how Universal Design for Learning enhances accessibility and strengthens learning outcomes.

Through faculty cohorts, podcasts, webinars, and conferences, the American Goodwin University has created a learner-centered culture that has improved course design, assessment flexibility, and learning scaffolding, while influencing broader institutional practices. 

This presentation explored how innovative assessment design engages students as co-designers. By offering diverse assessment options, students demonstrated competence through essays, photo essays, or multi-media projects.

This session addressed common challenges experienced by learners in group assessment in higher education. Aligned with UDL framework, it explored speed-interviewing, team charters, and reflective collaborative statements to enhance autonomy, collaboration, and reflection.

This presentation shared insights from a cross-faculty fellowship initiative at Maynooth University, highlighting successes, challenges, and strategies for building a university-wide culture of inclusion that supports both students and staff. 

Discover how AI and Assistive Technology can transform higher education by enhancing inclusion and accessibility. This session provided practical strategies, real-world examples, and interactive elements to help educators integrate these technologies.

Discover how the Student Learning Advisory Committee (SLAC) is transforming accessibility at UTS. Named by students to reclaim the term "slackers", SLAC gathers feedback and co-designs materials for academics on accessible and inclusive practice.

As AI drives a return to invigilated exams, UNE’s innovative, UDL-aligned model enhances flexibility and inclusivity. By removing accessibility barriers, and supporting diverse needs, this approach balances academic integrity with learner agency.

This presentation explored how UDL principles were embedded and actively modelled in the design and delivery of an online Inclusive Education specialisation giving pre-service teachers the knowledge and skills to create inclusive learning environments.

This presentation explored the challenges and lessons of implementing UDL in educational teams across TAFE SA. It also explored how the updated UDL Framework 3.0 may assist further development and implementation.

This presentation shared students’ voices from across Australia on what is contributing to their stress and what the impacts of this are. These stressors were viewed through the lens of UDL 3.0, highlighting the possibilities for reducing unnecessary barriers in the learning experience.

This presentation explored an intervention program in higher education for the implementation of inclusive-digital education for students, and described the challenges and opportunities involved in implementing lesson planning to meet the requirements of inclusive-digital education.

This presentation shared the process of developing guidelines for unit development, based on the principles of UDL, and shared data on the impact they had on student success at a large regional Australian university.

This presentation reported on the adoption of UDL by two teachers teaching in an Australian university pathway college, which offers alternative pathways for students to access university education.

This session offered a hands-on sample of the workshop facilitated for professional and academic staff from Murdoch University, followed by insights from the approach, post-workshop survey results, and practical strategies for implementing and scaling UDL training.

This interactive workshop led participants through an exploration of factors that impacted instructors' UDL journey beyond their initial exposure to professional development. The session incorporated findings from a recent Canadian study.

This collaborative workshop presented an authentic case study of UDL innovation in higher education, aligned it to the principles of UDL 3.0 and gave participants the opportunity to reflect on how they could implement this inclusive pedagogy into their own practice. 

Explore how AI can enhance digital education by converting written materials into various podcast formats. This workshop guided educators in using AI tools to create accessible and inclusive content, catering to diverse learning preferences.

The current political climate calls for an urgent need to interrogate the race-neutral lens that continues to shape much of UDL scholarship, revealing the limitations of accessibility frameworks that fail to engage meaningfully with systemic racism and the lived experiences of marginalised learners.

Limited time, resources, knowledge and implementation difficulties are barriers preventing academics from applying UDL in their teaching. In this interactive workshop, participants collectively considered how these identified barriers could be addressed.

This workshop explored how interdependence and collective learning can be used to drive systemic UDL implementation. Through case studies and interactive discussions, participants identified enablers and barriers, collaborated on solutions, and developed actionable strategies to embed UDL.

Join Sarah Humphreys as she interviewed the in-person Gallery Presenters during ADCET's UDL Symposium 2025. Also included is Frederic Fovet's Book Launch 'Decolonizing UDL'.

Academic support, wellbeing resources and learning tools help build student resilience, confidence and belonging. In Ana Lobo's Professional Communication unit, they apply UDL principles to give students diverse, accessible ways to explore and connect with these services.

Dr Christine Krol presents her journey from being a siloed sessional UDL advocate at a class/subject level to being part of an emerging university-wide community of practice group champions.

This study explores how academics' perspectives on disability influence implementation of inclusive practices in higher education, highlighting a disconnect between policy intentions and practical application due to systemic barriers, resource constraints, and reliance on reactive processes.

Digital accessibility awareness and skills foster inclusion and support DCU’s diverse students. H.O.U.S.E. is an interactive resource that introduces developers to creating accessible digital content.

This presentation described a personal journey of advocacy for embracing UDL across a University School to bridge a perceived gap between active promotion of Designing for Diversity principles at an Institution-wide level and implementation at the coalface.