Learn About
Universal
Design in
Education
This section of the website serves as an introductory window into information about universal design in education. As is explained in a bit more detail below, this is a broad scope. Success in higher education is not dependent on only curriculum and instruction, but depends on access to the physical environment as well as the electronic and information environments.
This portion of the website also explains about the terminology we use. We have carefully selected UDE as opposed to other terms such as UDL (universal design for learning) or UDI (universal design of instruction) in order to reflect the full scope of universal design applications in postsecondary education, including students, faculty, staff and community stakeholders.
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The Seven Principles of Universal Design
Ron Mace, an internationally renowned architect, product designer and educator, is credited with conceiving the term “universal design.” He founded the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University in 1989. In 1997, a committee of 10, under Mace’s leadership, wrote these seven principles of universal design. These principles are the standard for universally designing products, communication, and environments “to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without adaptation or specialized design”.
The Center for Universal Design, NC State University
