Higher Education
Through the Deck of Spaces™: Higher Education Edition, explore the untapped potential of your campus spaces from furniture in the classrooms, to the campus-wide experiences affecting students of all variabilities and backgrounds. Not only is the Deck of Spaces™ valuable to directly impact student learning experiences, it’s also a strong advocacy tool to expand the conversation around UDL on campuses, and illustrate the potential of UDL principles to impact the bottom line of collegiate institutions in these challenging times.
Deck of Spaces™: Higher Education Edition
How can I use the Deck of Spaces?
University-Wide Strategy Development:
At the broadest level, the Deck of Spaces™ can be used to help inspire strategies for enhancing learning access for all students across many areas of campus operations. Since many incoming students are not aware of the services available to them for learning accommodations, campuses can benefit from using the cards as a means of thinking about the new student user experience, and better engaging new students to campus-wide support services that are available to them. This application can also help identify opportunities for various support service departments and programs to establish stronger connections and synergies among one another.
College/Departmental Strategy Development:
Many campuses are working on UDL implementation strategies within specific colleges or departments. Use select cards from the Deck of Spaces™ to spur ideas about ways to foster better UDL support across an entire department; how to help faculty collaborate and share resources more effectively; and how to integrate UDL implementation efforts that may be happening independently. Pre-sort the cards based on relevance to your area of implementation and use these cards with stakeholders to consider ways that space can amplify your implementation efforts.
Space Design:
Any project related to new construction or renovation of learning space should be passed under the lens of UDL. Based on the project in consideration, pre-sort cards relative to that project scope and use these cards with stakeholder teams to help establish strategies and priorities for improved learning access and flexible space design. The Deck of Spaces™ is a great means of establishing a common language among educators, administrators, facilities personnel, purchasing personnel, students, and design professionals.
Student Engagement:
Coupled with a survey tool, the Deck of Spaces™ can help support a robust audit of student experience related to UDL. Use it to engage with students via surveys, town hall forums, round tables, or student organization meetings. Use the cards to help students think about their own campus experience and listen to the ideas that resonate with them.
