As we began to delve into adjustments made to online higher education amid COVID-19, a second session was added to continue this important conversation. Join CoopLew and Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, for part two of this webcast replay as we dive into three more big diversity-related questions with our panelists.
In this episode, we explore what the ‘new normal’ might look like, what adjustments we should make to our instructional design, equity, and assessment during this unique situation, as well as how to seize the many new learning moments and opportunities this pandemic has offered. We also explore different methods of accounting for underprivileged students as we move into a new mode of higher education, as well as how to care for vulnerable communities. Find out how we can move to the online space, without compromising on academic expectations and experiences, and how to shift our mindsets and start finding innovative ways to create new opportunities for students to learn in this unique online environment.
There is much to be explored in this topic; tune in to join the conversation now.
PANELISTS:
Leanne Wieland, Instructional Designer, Forsyth Technical Community College
Dr. Sean Huddleston, President, Martin University
Dr. William T. Lewis, Sr., Co-founder, CoopLew
KEY POINTS / MAIN TAKEAWAYS:
- What is the impact on instructional design, equity, and assessment?
- What should diversity professionals do to seize the moment?
- What does the new normal look like?
- How to account for and serve our underprivileged students.
- How to deal with virtual biases in an online campus.
- How to plan for and handling new student intakes.
QUOTABLES:
“But I do want to sort of give the encouragement that just because this is an exceptional situation, it doesn’t mean that overnight, you are expected to become an exceptional online teacher.”
“What we have to do now, in my opinion, is always continue to think about creating relationships. Social distancing does not mean social isolation. And so we have to now think very critically and innovatively in terms of how, by using the online and the virtual environment, to create a community for those most vulnerable populations.”
“If you’re an instructor and the student is logging on, participating in synchronous video chats, turning things into the links on time, it’s easy, in your unconscious bias, to want to grade that student higher and say that student is performing really well in this tough situation. What you may not be sort of paying proper attention to is the fact that the student who may not have that digital literacy isn’t not trying and isn’t not doing the work, they may just not be as proficient at the technical part of doing the assessment.”
PRODUCTS / RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Diverse and CoopLew Partnership to Spark Wave of Diversity Initiatives, Research, and Literature – Read the article here: https://diverseeducation.com/article/159299
Visit the Diverse: Issues In Higher Education website,
