The Future: Universal Design for Learning

While assistive technologies are of tremendous value, they will not provoke fundamental changes in education for most students with disabilities. Next-stage educational technologies will go beyond providing better access to existing methods and materials; they will embody fundamentally different concepts of learning (and thus teaching). They will change the learning goals, the teaching methods, and the means of assessment for all students. Several technologies are serving as catalysts for these new ideas and approaches.

• New technologies that are changing our concept of the nature of learning
  
• New technologies that are changing our concept of media
  
• New technologies that are changing our concept of the learner
  
• New technologies that are changing our concept of teaching and learning
  
• New technologies that are changing our concept of assessment