LEAD 177 Inclusive & Equitable Course Design for Diverse Learners

How can we design and teach with inclusion and learner equity in mind? This course invites you to explore and reflect on emerging practices, beliefs, and legal protections connected with inclusion, equity, and accessibility. You'll revisit and revise your personal teaching philosophies, engage in meaningful dialogue with your peers, and develop practical teaching artifacts ready to share with your students and colleagues. Together, we'll build a community that supports inclusive and equitable course design for diverse learners.

Prerequisites: N/A. 

Scope / Length: LEAD offerings are short-course experiences (@ 15 hours, generally over 4 weeks) that involve a mentored, guided cohort (i.e. they are not self-paced), and they are facilitated by faculty development educators.

• Articulate your rationale for inclusive course design within your personal teaching philosophy that bridges your personal experiences with inclusion, equity, and accessibility with your approach to building upon diverse learner identities, abilities, and experiences, 

• Apply principles of inclusive design and Universal Design for Learning toward the creation or revision of curricular content and connected activities or resources (i.e. lesson plans or learning objects) - and share your design considerations as part of your collegial, reflective practice.

• Apply your research and analysis of current and emerging accessibility, accommodation practices aligned and extending beyond federally-recognized disabilities to your teaching and design practices.

• Evaluate edtech and technology with educational uses in order to improve equitable learning experiences connected with web-enhanced, tech-integrated learning. 

Prerequisites:  TE125 TEACH: Intro to Online Pedagogy 

To register, visit our upcoming offerings page. 

Course designed by Jon Howe and Mana Kariman.  First offered in February of 2019. Revised by Mana Kariman and Reed Dickson in 2024.

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