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Organizer	Royal Roads University
Title	Connecting the Dots � Sharing Promising Practices across Country The Third Pan-Canadian Conference on Universal Design in Learning
Category	Accessibility
Location	Victoria, British Columbia
Date	October 2, 2019 - October 4, 2019
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Web site	http://www.udlcanada.ca/index.html
Description	THIRD PAN-CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING Connecting the Dots � Sharing Promising Practices across Country The Third Pan-Canadian Conference on UDL will take place at Royal Roads University October 2- 4, 2019. This represents an exceptional opportunity for UDL advocates, scholars and practitioners from across Canada and beyond to share their expertise, introduce their projects and present research findings. The conference will showcase the current development of UDL implementation across Canada, in both the K-12 sector and the Higher Education landscape; it will also serve as a timely venue to strengthen the Canadian voice around UDL and look ahead to its sustainable development. We are also hoping to have participants from overseas in order create optimal opportunities for cross-pollination and cross-border comparative analyses. Context The Pan-Canadian Conference on UDL first took place in 2015 at McGill University with the theme Canadian Perspectives: Sowing the Seeds, Facilitating the Change, Nurturing the Growth. In 2017, the conference was hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island under the theme Bringing User Experience to Education � UDL & Inclusion for the 21st Century. Both conferences were extremely popular for allowing the emergence of a genuine Canadian discourse on UDL. They succeeded in bringing together scholars and practitioners from almost every province in Canada. They have also planted the seeds for the creation of a Canadian non-profit designed to promote UDL across the country, and we are hoping to see this idea become a reality in October. Who should attend? The Conference has traditionally attracted UDL advocates and practitioners from four distinct fields: the K-12 sector, Higher Education, Accessibility Services and Student Services, and Instructional Designers. We are inviting submission from these four group of stakeholders and hope to have these streams represented in all sets of breakout sessions through the three days. Presentations in the past have included both traditional research findings and practitioner expos�s. We hope to see this diversity maintained during the October event. Presenters will be able to stipulate in their abstracts whether they are sharing traditional research or best practices. We welcome abstracts from Canadian authors that directly address the theme of the Conference. We also welcome international researchers and practitioners interested in establishing comparative trans-border analysis, or to showcase promising practices from overseas that can trigger reflection and dialogue here in Canada. Themes, streams and key topics There will be four streams on offer within the conference: K-12 teachers Higher Ed Instructors Accessibility Services, Student Services and Student Affairs Instructional Designers The program will be organized in such a way that participants will be able to remain within one stream for the duration of the Conference, or to switch between streams at their leisure. The Conference welcomes presentation in both French and English. Simultaneous translation will not be available to participants, due to the costs involved, but sessions will nonetheless be offered in both Official Languages. The overall theme of the conference is the sharing of promising practices across country and, beyond that, on an international scale. Key topics within the conference are as follows (presenters will be able to select one of these categories when they submit their abstracts): Introducing UDL to institutions Developing communities of practice around UDL Scaling up initial UDL efforts Management of change and organizational transformation around UDL Innovative UDL practices within specific disciplines Creating osmosis between UDL and other theoretical frameworks Creating interdisciplinary approaches to UDL work Seeking sustainability in UDL initiatives Developing UDL resources The student voice in UDL implementation Uncharted Paths

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