![]() To do so, educators must put into place a purposeful and proactive design for supporting learner variability through instructional design, instructional strategies, and materials. Through the lens of UDL, Basham says, the learning environment can engage students with disabilities with other learners. The design of STEM learning environments is focused on doing problem-based, project-based, and challenge-based learning. ![]() The National Science Foundation envisions a more world-class, broadly inclusive STEM workforce where all students excel in: Only 5% of students with disabilities enter into the STEM workforce, he notes. In a federally-funded webinar, he shared the following apps and tech solutions that show potential to deal with barriers to learning by students who struggle with complex texts and the scientific methods needed to problem-solve in the sciences. The one he likes best is Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which examines "various constraints in our environment and designs solutions around all the problems that we have." His area of interest includes student learning in modern learning environments. He is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas. "I want you to think less like a teacher and more like an engineer," Jamie Basham told his webinar audience as part of a project of the Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities. Teachers as "learning engineers" was a theme of a 2014 webinar focused on how to structure successful learning for students with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education using technology and apps.
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