Before our Zoom session on Tuesday, June 23, continue to look for OER and other no-cost materials for your course, using the backward design process if it is helpful.

Post a comment below with responses to following questions by Monday, June 22, at 6pm:

• What OER and other no-cost materials have you found and/or plan to use in your course?
• How do these materials support the incorporation of asset-based pedagogies (e.g., trauma-informed pedagogy, culturally sustaining pedagogy, open pedagogy) into your course?
• How do the materials address these two principles of universal design for learning (UDL)?
  • multiple means of engagement
  • multiple means of representation

Watch

Read

Read Chapter 1: Surfacing Backward Design from Small Teaching Online. Come to the next session ready to discuss using the backward design process in redesigning your course with OER.

The link above goes to the e-book chapter in one of our Library databases. Let us know if you have trouble logging in to read the chapter.

Bonus

If you have time and interest, here is a podcast episode interviewing the author of Small Teaching Online, Flower Darby.

View

Explore

Explore the information and resources available at UDL in Higher Education.

Write

Share your thoughts in the comments below in response to these spark prompts:

• How might you add multiple means of engagement (the why of learning) in your course?
• How might you apply multiple means of representation (the what of learning) to materials or information you provide your students?
• Redesign one of your assignments using multiple means of action and expression (the how of learning).

After reading about culturally sustaining pedagogy and trauma-informed pedagogy, what are some ways that you could incorporate these two and open pedagogy into your course?

Post your reply in the comments below.

Bonus Listen: For more information on trauma-informed pedagogy, Tea for Teaching has a terrific interview (48 mins) with Karen Costa, an educator who’s been working in this area for several years.

This document captures small group discussions about culturally sustaining pedagogy.