{"id":7155,"date":"2023-07-10T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2023-07-10T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:49:40","slug":"a-practical-equity-first-framework-for-selecting-and-implementing-courseware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/a-practical-equity-first-framework-for-selecting-and-implementing-courseware\/","title":{"rendered":"A Practical Equity-First Framework for Selecting and Implementing Courseware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aireale J. Rodgers says equity is too often treated as an afterthought in the design and implementation of digital learning. Supporting historically marginalized students requires starting from an explicitly equity-minded perspective.<\/p>\n

Toward that end, Rodgers, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, developed an equity-first framework using six considerations for designers and instructors seeking to leverage courseware as a tool to support equitable and just student learning. She presented and outlined that framework in An Equity-First Approach to Postsecondary Digital Learning<\/a> in February 2023, part of Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae\u2019s webinar series, Strategies for Success Through Equitable Teaching and Learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my perspective, racial equity issues are life or death issues because of the ways our society still disproportionately puts Black, Indigenous, and other people of color at risk for premature death,\u201d Rodgers says. \u201cSo thinking about ways in which racial bias quite literally kills people provides a very powerful imperative for why we must transform the way we are centering equity in our work.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Rodgers points out, our culture either awards privilege and legitimacy or legitimizes oppression based on people\u2019s racial and other identities. \u201cWe think about race alongside socio-economic status, disability, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, citizenship, to name a few,\u201d she says. \u201cThe way all these social categorizations confer privilege or oppression is what we need to pay attention to in our work.\u201d<\/p>\n