AI Through a UDL Lens

Apply CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0 to AI-supported learning: barriers, representation, engagement, action and expression, accessibility and cognitive ownership.

• Start with the barrier, not AI — Use learner variability and the learning environment to identify a real access problem first.
• Use AI to widen access to representation — Create alternative explanations and formats while checking accuracy and overload.
• Use AI choice to build agency, not menu overload — Offer meaningful decisions about support, pathway or perspective rather than endless generated options.
• Widen expression without changing the construct — Use AI to support composition and access while protecting what the assessment is meant to reveal.
• Protect cognitive ownership — Use AI support that widens access while keeping the intended thinking with the learner.