Reflecting on UDL Principles in Your Own Instructional Design

It was interesting to realize that in my current instructional design projects the most frequently used UDL principals and guidelines come from one principal: Provide Multiple Means of Engagement.  It is possible that because apprenticeship’s are comprised of the specific elements of on-the-job learning and classroom study that providing options for recruiting for interest and/or sustaining effort and persistence work best for the learner and final outcome. 

Both principals are equally weighted because the core elements of practical and theoretical learning in apprenticeship are central to the development of a specialized skilled trade’s person.  Course work and hands-on learning must optimize the relevance, value, and authenticity of the skill being taught; while collaboration and mastery-oriented feedback is at the foundation of the entire program.

I would like to expand how program content is presented; moving beyond the traditional classroom setting to include video, webcast lecture sessions, and virtual classrooms.  This would allow companies to include learners from multiple facility locations into one classroom or learning lab.