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This book explores strategies to decolonize digital education, focusing on building inclusive, equitable online learning environments that respect and integrate diverse lived experiences and ways of knowing into the educational process.
List of contents
Introduction: Decolonizing digital learning: equity through intentional course design
1. Designing MOOCs in South America towards open and equitable education
2. Promoting culturally responsive teaching in online learning: experiences and challenges of instructors and students in higher education
3. Mapping racial justice to online teacher education
4. Open educational resources as the panacea for the decolonisation of e-learning content in South Africa
5. Decolonizing online learning: a reflective approach to equitable pedagogies
6. "Welcome to my backyard": an intersectional approach to inclusive teaching in the asynchronous learning environment
7. Photos from home: Integrating lived experience in a remote-learning environment
8. Utilizing the Learner Variability Navigator to support inclusive instructional design
9. Who gets to decolonize: a reflection on the importance of positionality in the decolonization of digital learning spaces and learning design
10. Beyond the virtual classroom: integrating artificial intelligence in online learning
About the author
Krystle Phirangee, PhD is a Lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (St. George Campus), Toronto, Canada. She is also a Senior Educational Developer and Lead, Assessment & Digital Learning for the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto (Scarborough Campus), Toronto, Canada.
Lorne Foster, PhD is a Professor of Public Policy and Equity Studies, as well as the Director of the Institute for Social Research, and holds the Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies and Human Rights (Tier 1) at York University, Toronto Canada.