{"id":2886,"date":"2017-03-16T10:19:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:55:12","slug":"blending-diversity-into-online-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/2017\/03\/16\/blending-diversity-into-online-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Blending Diversity into Online Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a way to incorporate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesley.edu\/diversity-council\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lesley University&#8217;s Inclusion Plan<\/a> into teaching and learning opportunities, we created a new activity in our Online Teaching Seminar this February.<\/p>\n<p>eLIS&#8217; Teaching Seminar is designed to help prepare first-time online instructors to facilitate their courses. One of the exercises in the seminar is to participate in a discussion about scenarios that instructors may encounter when teaching an online course. We created a new example where one student makes a racist remark towards another student in an online discussion. We then ask our seminar participants how they would handle the situation if this happened in their course.<\/p>\n<p>We had the instructors prepare for the discussion by reading a couple of resources on diversity and inclusion teaching:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/guides-sub-pages\/diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diversity &amp; Inclusive Teaching <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.ncdcr.gov\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/p249901coll22\/id\/256735\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching for inclusion: diversity in the college classroom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on the readings, the instructors had a great conversation and offered advice to one another.<\/p>\n<p>One question that was heavily discussed was the idea of depersonalization when debating potentially sensitive topics. Instead of asking students how you may feel about a topic, you can ask them to present an argument for or against said topic.<\/p>\n<p>Additional topics that developed during the conversation included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After an incident occurs, do you address the whole class or just address the students directly involved?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a need to provide statistics or studies to controvert racist assumptions?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There may not be a definitive answer to these questions, but we wanted instructors to wrestle with these questions and deepen their own standards for teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a way to incorporate Lesley University&#8217;s Inclusion Plan into teaching and learning opportunities, we created a new activity in our Online Teaching Seminar this February. eLIS&#8217; Teaching Seminar is designed to help prepare first-time online instructors to facilitate their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/2017\/03\/16\/blending-diversity-into-online-teaching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[42,172,355,356,106],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-design","tag-case-study","tag-case-based-teaching","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-online-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}