Differences between the universal design of learning and universal method of instruction
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Ronald Mace described the universal design as the ideas used to come up with different products that favour everyone in the environment despite their status, age or ability(Rogers et al., 2018). The universal design emerged with the growing interest of helping those with injuries, illness and any congenital disability that affect their working and activities. There was a need to come up with an assistive technology that can help them move. Universal design is therefore used to help perform a particular job. It is currently being applied to assist in designing new products, technology and other services. The universal design of learning is a method that uses different teaching designs to help remove any destruction and give all learners equal opportunities. It recommends offering knowledge in other ways such as textbooks, audios, videos, texts and ensures all the students can access this information. Universal design for instructions considers all the students’ potentials and gives instructions by removing all unnecessary barriers when teaching. The universal design of education varies between different courses and also the environment.
It is necessary to create products that are accessible to all the people in our communities. Universal design helps us develop products that include everyone, regardless of their abilities and age. In our society today, older people have challenges in hearing, vision, and mobility, and they still need to be part of the community. To help them, we can develop a design such as a curb or a sidewalk in churches, homes, schools, and markets that will help the aged, kids, and people with disabilities. They can also help people in businesses that pull heavy loads. Cultural differences, beliefs, gender, language, religion, race and other differences are becoming a challenge among health care workers. This resulted in many misunderstandings, absenteeism and decreased work quality among these workers. To promote cultural competency among health professionals, seminars can help train these workers on cultural aspects that can avoid discriminations. Cultural competency among the health workers will help them have knowledge and skills to deliver care to them (Arbour et al., 2015 ).
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Arbour, M., Kaspar, R. W., & Teall, A. M. (2015). Strategies to promote cultural competence in distance education. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 26(4), 436-440.
Rogers-Shaw, C., Carr-Chellman, D. J., & Choi, J. (2018). Universal learning design: Guidelines for accessible online instruction. Adult learning, 29(1), 20-31.