Digital Learning Days 2025

A group of smiling faculty and staff stand together in a brightly decorated room at Elon University for a group photo during Forge 2023. Colorful paper decorations and posters with design thinking themes, including one that reads 'Process Over Product,' are visible on the walls behind them. The setting conveys a welcoming, creative, and collaborative atmosphere Join Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) for Digital Learning Days 2025 (DLD 2025), a two-day interactive workshop focused on designing flexible, technology-enhanced learning environments that promote meaningful participation, strengthen student engagement, and support academic success for every student.

Today’s classrooms include students with a wide range of learning needs, abilities, preferences, and motivational factors. This variety calls for intentional course design that supports every learner by addressing differences in how they engage with content, process information, and demonstrate understanding. Technology can play a vital role in this work-extending the impact of strong instructional design by enabling more responsive, engaging, and adaptable learning experiences.

Grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL), DLD 2025 will provide faculty with practical, research-based strategies to reimagine and strengthen their courses across all teaching formats.

By the end of this experience, participants will be able to:

  • Design technology-enhanced learning experiences that support various learning needs and promote student engagement and success.
  • Apply best practices for digital accessibility and course design that reduce barriers to learning.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to implement universal instructional strategies in their courses.

Schedule

Digital Learning Days 2025 is held on Wednesday, July 30, and Thursday, July 31. The DLD Moodle course will open the week of July 21 (attendees will be notified) for attendees to become familiar with the course and a pre-workshop introduction activity.

Wednesday, July 30 (Virtual):

Building the Foundations

  • Welcome, interactive icebreakers, and an introduction to UDL principles.
  • Concurrent sessions on inclusive course design and digital accessibility.
  • Hands-on exploration of UDL tools and strategies.
  • Practical accessibility stations (captioning, Moodle accessibility tools, alternative text, and more).
  • Collaborative redesign challenge using learner profiles.

Thursday, July 31 (In-Person):

Putting UDL into Practice

  • Syllabus and course redesign with accessibility and student success in mind.
  • Exploring tools and practices that support varied learners (including optional AI tools).
  • In-depth design and peer review sessions.
  • Showcase of redesigned modules, peer feedback, and reflection.

Compensation & Eligibility

A woman gestures toward a large projection screen while leading a session on 'Conducting Literature Review' in a classroom with a red accent wall. The slide includes bullet points about summarizing research, identifying gaps, and mapping connections between articles. A man stands to the side near a whiteboard, and several seated participants with laptops listen and take notes. Posters about design thinking and community engagement hang on the walls.The workshop is available to all full-time, ongoing faculty. Those who participate in DLD 2025 will receive a $300 stipend.

Participation includes:  

  • Attend both days.
  • Active engagement.
  • Completion of individual and group work.

Registration

A man in a light blue polo shirt smiles and leans forward while engaging in conversation with a woman seated at a worktable in a makerspace. The room contains tools, a laser engraver sign, and various project materials, suggesting a creative, hands-on environment.DLD 2025 is open to 20 faculty members. We encourage interested full-time, ongoing faculty to register before July 13.