DEI for All

Streamed Session

Brief Abstract

This session will demonstrate a free & openly-licensed tool developed by a national cross-institutional collaboration to simultaneously address DEI & online course quality. SUNY, Cal State LA CETL, & 66 other institutions have developed a resource of online inclusive teaching practices that can be used with any of the main online course quality rubrics, i.e., CVC-OEI, OSCQR, QOLT, or QM. 

Presenters

Lead Presenter: Alexandra M. Pickett, SUNY Online

https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/meet-the-team/alex/

Additional Authors

Sally Baldwin, California State University - Los Angeles

Jeff Suarez-Grant, California State University - Los Angeles

Jeff is the Senior Instructional Designer at the Center for Effective Teaching and Learning at Cal State Los Angeles. He consults with faculty during course redesign, while also helping to enhance faculty teaching practices. To date, Jeff has helped faculty build over 100 hybrid and online courses. On the side, he teaches digital imaging and conducts forensic image analysis and accounting in civil cases involving copyright infringement.

Ashlie Sarsgard, University of Maryland - Baltimore School of Social Work

Extended Abstract

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and online education experts from SUNY, and expert staff and faculty from Cal State Los Angeles, Center for Effective Teaching and Learning (Cal State LA CETL) and the California Community Colleges have collaboratedwith 60+ institutions to develop a flexible framework that infuses DEI practices into any online course quality rubric. The aim of this project is to help institutions, faculty, and instructional designers ensure equitable, diverse, and inclusive online teaching and learning environments without disrupting existing quality assurance processes. 

With cross-institutional teams of experts in DEI, online teaching, and online instructional design, this collaborative workgroup has reviewed 54 existing inclusive teaching practices, and adapted them to the online teaching and course design environments. The team has collaborated to cite, research and document, write, and tag a set of online, openly-licensed, and freely available DEI annotations, examples, and practices that can be mapped to Online Course Quality standards, and incorporated into the main existing online quality tools such as CVC-OEI, OSCQR, QOLT, and QM.  This flexible framework infuses DEI practices into any online course quality rubric, or initiative to address DEI in online course design and instruction. 

In addition to the collaboration with our California colleagues, the SUNY team is working in parallel to review current OLC OSCQR Scorecard standards with the online DEI lens, identify any DEI-related gaps in standards, make recommendations on the need to add DEI standards, and determine if any DEI revisions are needed to the rubric and online support materials. Results of this project will be incorporated into the next version of OSCQR.

Targeting online teaching and learning environments, the DEI annotations that result from this collaborative project will assist institutions, online instructional designers, and online faculty to inform, influence, and ensure equitable, diverse, and inclusive online teaching and learning environments, and contribute to a national conversation to build further DEI awareness on effective online practices, tools, and resources for DEI-informed online education in general.

This session will provide participants with: 

  1. A demonstration of the annotations and platform.
  2. Access to the platform and the opportunity to consider how to apply an inclusive teaching practice in their own online teaching/course design context. 
  3. An opportunity for participants to discuss and provide input and feedback to the annotations and participate in the project.

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