Teaching online is a labor of love that allows faculty members to be technological artists. For the inexperienced faculty member, online education is seen as a “cheat fest”. However, with practice, many faculty members quickly learn that most times the students in their courses are full-time employees, single parents, non-traditional students, students living in a different city, state, or country, or on-campus students who needed another option. Because online education is still new and technology advances daily, faculty can never be 100% sure of what can and cannot be done. Although it is very convenient for faculty members to replicate the same strategies of teaching in each unit and in each of their online courses, when teaching diverse groups of learners, it is important to engage all students with the course content by utilizing a number of teaching strategies that facilitate academic success for everyone. This mode of teaching in its simplest form is defined as Equity Pedagogy. The purpose of this course is to introduce faculty members to several teaching strategies that will allow them to vary the ways in which students engage with their course content. By the end of this course, participants should be knowledgeable of various teaching strategies in their online courses. Although this is not a comprehensive introduction to Equity Pedagogy, this course is a start for those wishing to maximize student success via diversity in their teaching in online spaces.
- Teacher: Jerry Parker