Glossary: International Teaching Terms

University of Applied Sciences

Acronym: Understanding By Design 

Courses are designed 'backwards'. The teacher starts with classroom outcomes and then plans the curriculum, choosing activities and materials that help determine student ability and foster student learning.

Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

National University Distance Education (Spain)

UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

User Experience, a person's perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service.

Ubiquitous learning (or u-learning, ULearning) is equivalent to some form of simple mobile learning, e.g. that learning environments can be accessed in various contexts and situations. The ubiquitous learning environment (ULE) may detect more context data than elearning. Besides the domains of eLearning, uLearning may use more context awareness to provide most adaptive contents for learners.

Short for 'university'. Used in Australia.

Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn.

UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.

Read more detail here - http://www.cast.org/udl/