Students as Partners with Anastasia Williams and Lorena Perales

Welcome to Episode 126 of the Think UDL podcast: Students as Partners with Anastasia Williams and Lorena Perales. Anastasia Williams is the Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching at the University of Iowa. She focuses on inclusive teaching, course design, syllabus design, well-being, and universal design for learning (UDL). Lorena Perales is a sophomore at the University of Iowa, a first generation college student and a double major in social justice and criminal law who works as a student as partner for the Center for Teaching with Anastasia Williams on this project. In today’s conversation, we will talk about how they set up this fantastic project to get feedback on what has worked well and not so well in various courses based on real time student feedback through a variety of instruments throughout the semester. We will hear how the project was created and how it evolved and how students' voices especially shaped the feedback to professors throughout, and also how receptive faculty were to this along the way! Stay tuned to learn about an ingenious way to improve teaching at your institution through UDL and thank you for listening to this conversation on the Think UDL podcast.