The barriers faced by implementing UID techniques in the ESL classroom can be multiple, but never as big as an adherence to the status quo in an academic setting making change difficult to implement. This is what I call the guarded knowledge theory. Simply stated, we must have strict rules and regulations about how to learn in order to grade, label, and justify what we do. I think it is important to implement new and useful course design and teaching techniques to allow more access to the information being taught. Teaching is at times more than a job.
Some teachers lack awareness of the types of diverse learning needs within higher education.
By designing a course based upon UID or implementing UID techniques, ESL students will no longer need to rely as heavily on support systems that are secondary to primary instructional programs. Faculty members' provision of instructional accommodations to students with learning disabilities.