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Applying UDL principles: Motivating and engaging learners in multiple ways

Applying UDL principles: Motivating and engaging learners in multiple ways

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Applying UDL principles: Motivating and engaging learners in multiple ways

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- In this movie let's look at the universal design for learning a principle called Multiple Means of Engagement. In other words, how we'll actually use technology to engage and motivate students to learn. Specifically, how we'll try to maintain their interest, sustain their efforts, and support self control. We do this not only to accommodate learners with different learning challenges, but also to support learners with different strengths and interests. Student interest is where we'll start. Keeping or increasing students' interest can be as easy as giving them a choice. They shouldn't be able to choose the learning outcomes necessarily, but they can choose the tools they use to gather information. Another way to increase interest is to make the content more relevant to students' lives. Want to do both of these things at the same time? You can do both by asking students to share links to articles or websites related to the course topics and asking the class to vote on which tool to…

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