There is no “typical student”. How do we create OER that meet the needs of our diverse student body? Universal Design for Learning (UDL) helps us build resources that maximize student access, engagement, and learning. Focusing on UDL also places accessibility guidelines in a context that aids us in achieving those goals. From describing complex graphics to providing multiple modalities for content, UDL offers a framework that supports us in creating resources which best serve our students. Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can take us to the next level by empowering students to participate in content creation that solidifies their learning and critical thinking; it also improves our OER for future students.
In this webinar, Suzanne Wakim will introduce the UDL and OEP frameworks and discuss how you can apply them to create a truly awesome OER.
Suzanne Wakim is the Distance Education and Accessible Learning Resources Coordinator at Butte College. She is a facilitator for the Creative Commons Certificate and a project facilitator for California’s OER Initiative. She also facilitates courses on accessibility, equitable grading, and online communication. Suzanne has helped write numerous textbooks and learning ancillaries including content for Nature, Discovery Education, Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative and OpenStax and has co-written the most downloaded Human Biology textbook in LibreTexts. She has been teaching for over 25 years and working in the world of Open for over 15 years.
This webinar takes place from 12:00-1:00 pm Pacific time, March 13, 2026.
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