Equity in Higher Education
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Technology in Online Education Leadership
2023 Annual Impact Report
In this report, you can read about the network’s impact in the areas of services, thought leadership, and student engagement. In addition, we recap our 2023 network convening, introduce our new Equity First Organization partners, feature some of our student interns, and give readers a preview of what’s ahead for the network in 2024.
Putting Equity Into Practice: Equity-Minded Professional Learning
Putting Equity Into Practice: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
Culturally responsive pedagogy is a framework that is inclusive of culturally responsive and relevant teaching, and culturally affirming and sustaining instructional methodologies that validate and engage students’ cultural identities. These practical instructional strategies and practices guide the implementation of culturally responsive teaching and learning into educational spaces.
The Equity-Minded Digital Learning Strategy Guides
The Equity-Minded Digital Learning Strategy Guides help faculty intentionally and authentically affirm, uplift, and liberate students. As higher education continues to address eliminating inequitable outcomes in teaching and learning, these guides will help institutions embed equity, culturally responsive teaching, social justice education, and open pedagogy through evidence-based teaching practices.
Putting Equity Into Practice: Open Pedagogy
Being able to choose course design, content, assignments, assessments, and instructional approaches based on the context of the learners and the current events of the times allows students to relate all areas of the course to their lives and equitizes their experiences and outcomes. This guide is designed to support faculty with operationalizing open pedagogy through a culturally responsive lens.
Putting Equity Into Practice: Social Justice Education
Advancing social justice in education requires establishing educational spaces that foster students’ critical consciousness and ability to analyze systems, policies, and practices that lead to inequitable and unjust experiences and outcomes. A social justice approach to education involves two strategies that will be featured in this guide: anti-racist teaching and abolitionist teaching.
Digital Learning Equity Analysis Project
This paper describes the outcomes of a Digital Learning Equity Analysis project undertaken by two award-winning educators, Sarah Straub and Rachel Jumper, who sought to implement suggestions from the microcredential training hosted by Every Learner Everywhere. This training focused on promoting equity in digital learning and provided a structured protocol for conducting reviews of online courses.
Listening to Learners 2023
Tyton partners’ Listening to Learners 2023 reveals that while 70% of students value representative diversity among advisors, only 30% of institutions report scaled implementation of this hr practice. Cutting-edge research identifies strategies to enhance student outcomes and create a sense of belonging in higher education.
Planning for Academic Continuity
This guide presents results from an analysis of 100 academic continuity plans at U.S. colleges and universities. The results form the basis for recommended academic continuity plan best practices, tools, and templates academic leaders can use to maintain a plan that can be used in both short-term and long-term circumstances.
OLC Innovate Student Panel: Co-Constructing Diverse Pathways to Digital Learning With Our Students
The Impact of Digital Learning on Minoritized and Poverty-Affected College Students: A Literature Review
The focus of this resource paper is to assess the effectiveness of digital learning in decreasing equity gaps as well as the impact digital learning has on specific student populations: those who identify as Black, Latino, and Indigenous; students from low-income backgrounds; and first-generation students.
Partnering to Promote Equity and Digital Learning
Designing Online Learning as Intersectional, Entangled Commitments
Learning from Our Students: Student Perspectives on Good Teaching
An Equity-First Approach to Postsecondary Digital Learning
Beyond Inclusion: Teaching for civic engagement and participation
Every Learner 2022 Annual Impact Report
Creating an Equity-centered Experience: Lessons from the Every Learner Everywhere Student Fellowship
An Equity-First Approach to Postsecondary Digital Learning Strategy Guide
Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Strategy Guide
What Our Best College Instructors Do
Toward Ending the Monolithic View of “Underrepresented Students”
2022 APLU INCLUSIVE Summit: Emphasizing Care, Culture, and Community in the Classroom
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit: Designing for Equity & Closing Remarks Recording
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Disciplinary Matters: Sciences Session
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Disciplinary Matters Writing Session
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Keynote Call to Action and Students & Faculty Speak Panel
ASU Remote 2022: Inclusive Teaching Practices
ASU Remote 2022: Ask the Experts Q&A Inclusive Teaching
ASU Remote 2022: Toward Ending the Monolithic View of “Underrepresented Students” In U.S. Higher Education
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for ensuring your course content is equity-centered
ASU Remote 2022: Structure you department for equitable outcomes
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for Implementing Digital Learning Infrastructure to Support Equitable Outcomes
ASU Remote 2022: Students share the most impactful inclusive teaching strategies
ASU Remote 2022: Caring for the Whole Student
Caring for the Whole Student
Colleges and universities can help alleviate the burden students face every day, including restructuring mental health support on campus, providing options for digital learning, encouraging teachers to apply trauma-informed teaching practices, and connecting students with the resources they need to thrive.
Democratizing Learning Environments
Using COVID-19 Relief Funds to Boost Equity in Digital Learning
Leveraging Federal COVID-19 Relief Funding to Support Digital Learning
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: Changing the Narrative: Advancing Culturally Responsive Professional Learning
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: An Equity Review Tool: Evaluating Instructional Materials for Equity-Minded Practice
Equity Review Tool
The equity review tool is designed for educators striving to create more validating and affirming learning experiences and environments for students. Using this tool, educators will be able to develop and evaluate their resources and the language they use to ensure they are asset-based and supportive of a more equitable teaching and learning process.
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: Student Voices Panel: Students Explore their Experiences with Culturally Responsive Teaching
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: The Paradigm Shift: What Happens When Taking an Equity-minded Approach to Teaching and Learning?
Designing Assessments Through a Culturally Responsive Lens
Operationalizing Equitable Teaching and Learning Practices
Curating Inclusive Course Content that Centers Students and Equity
Online Teaching Strategies to Promote Equity and Inclusion
Strategies for Implementing Digital Learning Infrastructure to Support Equitable Outcomes
ACAO Town Hall: DEI in the Classroom: Teaching & Curriculum Considerations
Starting with the Learner: Inclusive Instruction as Teaching with Social Justice
Love as Praxis: Initiative in Diversity, Equity, Antiracism, and Leadership (IDEAL) Fellows Program
Every Learner 2021 Annual Report
This year our network has prioritized increasing our knowledge and capacity for equity and racial justice work along with centering equity and racial justice in our resources and services. In addition to our personal and professional equity work, we have spent this last year inviting students into our work.
The Blended Institution for Higher Education: A Model for a Sustainable Institution
APLU Adapt 2021: Supporting Students through Institutional Partnerships and Collaboration
APLU Adapt 2021: Inclusive and Culturally Responsive Teaching
Improving departmental equity using the IMPACT Framework
Lessons Learned: A Toolkit for Post-Pandemic Higher Education with Equity and Student Care at the Center
Lessons Learned is made up of over 30 recommendations for improving practices in higher education. It asks where unexpected benefits showed themselves among the forced necessity of emergency remote teaching, and it encourages faculty, administrators, and academic and student support colleagues to continue collaborating to remove barriers, improve access, and update methods and tools.
Teaching with a Cobot, not a Robot
Development and Implementation of Active, Interactive, and Adaptive Physics Courses
Faculty share experiences of developing and implementing active, interactive, and adaptive introductory physics courses. The design allows students to work at their own pace, choosing support items presented to them via the adaptive feature of the course, and explore concepts through simulations with activities.
Culturally Relevant Neuroeducation Practices + Tech Tools = Equitable Classroom Environments
ASU Remote 2021: Teaching Equitably in English Composition
ASU Remote 2021: Principles and Practices for Inclusive Teaching
ASU Remote 2021: Getting Started with Equity in Gateway Courses
ASU Remote 2021: All Access Pass: Course “Re” Design with Adaptive Learning
ASU Remote 2021: Teaching Equitably in Psychology
ASU Remote 2021: Teaching Equitably in Mathematics
ASU Remote 2021: Equitable and Inclusive Practices for Chemistry Education
ASU Remote 2021: Engagement and Impact: A conversation with students
Caring for Students Playbook: Six Recommendations
Optimizing High-Quality Digital Learning Experiences: A Playbook for Faculty
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Chemistry: Jeffrey Paz Buenaflor, Ph.D
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Biology
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Psychology
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Chemistry
A Discipline Brief for Equity in English Composition: Catherine Savini
A Discipline Brief for Equity in English Composition: Rachel E. Johnson
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Mathematics: Natalie Hobson
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Mathematics: Joel Amidon
Getting Started with Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders
A Student Perspective on Centering Student Voice: Intentional Futures
A Student Perspective on Centering Student Voice: SXSW
A Student Perspective on Centering Student Voice: Digital Promise
A Student Perspective on Centering Student Voice: ATD
Research Review: Educational Technologies and Their Impact on Student Success for Racial and Ethnic Groups of Interest
Planning for a Blended Future
Student Leaders Speak 2021
Ask an Expert Live Q & A: Evidence-Based Teaching
Success for All Teaching Strategies
Designing with Equity and Engagement at the Forefront
A Course Redesign Project: Personalized Adaptive Learning and OER Content
Ask An Expert Live Q & A: Inclusive Teaching
Addressing DEI Issues in STEM Education
Differentiated Instruction for Equity in Higher Education
Improving Critical Courses Using Digital Learning & Evidence-based Pedagogy
Ask an Expert Live Q&A: What Faculty Need to Know
Student Speak 2020: Peer-to-Peer Survey Results
Leveraging Sociocultural Knowledge to Humanize Online Learning Experiences
A virtual educator professional development session led by Cherise McBride with reflection on the urgency of humanization in online learning environments and examples from practice.