Online Learning Team & COOL Faculty presenting Welcome!

Opening Session: How Equity Builds the Foundation of Course Quality (Learning Community Intro)

Though we are facing multiple challenges in our country and state right now, the racial tension filling the streets is creating the opportunity for a watershed moment. As we look at the myriad ways people are challenging racialized institutional practices, from tearing down confederate statues to examining police brutality, it seems like a good time to explore our own practices.

A theme of equity runs through the sessions we'll engage in over the next three days. This first session explores why this is the foundation of our learning communities this summer.

Lené Whitley-Putz and Carolyn Holcroft

Introduction to the Online Equity Affirmation

Given the tremendous positive reception to the CVC-OEI Course Evaluation Rubric and the lively ongoing discussions in COOL, we know that Foothill faculty are passionate about online course quality! It has become apparent that there’s one key component missing from that rubric, though: student equity. We’ve drafted an “Online Equity Affirmation” as a first attempt to fill that gap. Please join us to hear more about the document, the underlying rationale for it, and how it might be used to frame our application of the OEI Rubric.

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