Why Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Matters: Creating opportunities for inclusive, equitable education

Prof. Sharon Hartle is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona. During her career she has specialised for many years in e-learning, blended learning, assessment and multimedia materials development. Recently, however, her research has focused particularly on inclusive, accessible English Language Teaching and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

Dr. Emanuela Tenca is an assistant professor at the Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences (UniCamillus) in Rome. Her research interests include English language teaching and learning, also from a historical perspective, inclusive and accessible foreign language education, English for Specific Purposes, and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. In 2022 she participated in a project funded by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona for the development of an inclusive and accessible model for language learning and teaching, under the supervision of Prof. Sharon Hartle.