UAS
University of Applied Sciences
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UBD
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.
Ubiquitous learning
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.
UDL
Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn.
Universal Design for Learning
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/
Upload
To transfer data or programs, usually from a peripheral computer or device to a central, often remote computer