Richard M. Jackson

Richard Jackson is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the nascent field of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). He first brought the UDL framework to Boston College in 1999 through a partnership with CAST and the Harvard Children’s Initiative to form the National Center for Accessing the General Curriculum. This federally funded Center’s role was to provide the nation with guidance on how best to include students with disabilities in a standards-based, public education. Jackson won a five-year leadership grant from the US Department of Education to train eight postdoctoral “UDL Fellows” whose efforts continue to advance this new field in improving results for students with disabilities. UDL’s twenty-year presence at Boston College under Jackson’s leadership has been instrumental in the design of accessible blended learning courses and in the development of inclusive instructional practices campus-wide.

Publications

Creating an International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education: INCLUDE as a Global Community of Practice
Creating an International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education: INCLUDE as a Global Community of Practice
Elizabeth Minchin Dalton, Richard M. Jackson, Sean Bracken, Ashiya Abdool Satar, Mustapha Aabi, Aashna Khurana, Luigia Nicholas, Oressa K. Power, Linda Plantin Ewe. © 2023. 20 pages.
To foster strong global movements toward more inclusive educational resources around the world, higher education serves a crucial role. Universities face numerous challenges in...