Advancing DEI and Creating Inclusive Environments in the Online Space

  • 8h 17m
  • Nina M. McCune
  • IGI Global
  • 2022

Diversity and inclusion are vital practices in today’s educational environments, both online and in-person. Implementing inclusive practices to support student development is critical to ensure they receive the best possible education and feel comfortable in the classroom. With the current shift to online teaching and learning, it is especially important to consider how diversity and equity are promoted in these new technological spaces.

Advancing DEI and Creating Inclusive Environments in the Online Space considers the process of creating a caring and inclusive teaching and learning environment in online postsecondary institutions by addressing key issues such as creating sites of collaboration and engagement, ensuring and proactively delivering resources and student support, and developing hallmarks of inclusivity to support online course design and faculty development. Covering a range of topics such as strategic planning, social change, and assessment, this reference work is ideal for administrators, higher education faculty, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

About the Author

Nina M. McCune has served as faculty and in leadership positions, with an increasing focus on interventions that strengthen equity outcomes. In 2020, she was awarded a NISOD Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Sean and Jennifer Eplett Reilly Chancellor's Endowed Professorship at Baton Rouge Community College, due in part to an Equity Institute she launched to improve persistence and completion within general education course outcomes. In 2021, she joined Walden University as the Associate Dean for Inclusive Teaching and Learning environments, where she collaborates and directs systemic transformations that elevate the inherent worth, dignity, and humanity for all involved in the learning process. Dr. McCune holds an EdD in Adult Learning and Development with a specialization in Community College Leadership from Northwestern State University in Louisiana, a MA in the Social Sciences with a concentration on History, and a BA in Germanic Languages and Literature from the University of Chicago.

In this Book

  • Foreword
  • Developing a Learning Model for Caring, Inclusion, and Social Change in an Online Environment
  • Digital Appreciative Inquiry for Inclusion
  • Using an Emotional Intelligence Learning System for Person-Centered Curriculum Development and Teaching
  • Success and Failures in the Development of an Inclusive Online Learning Environment
  • Designing an Inclusive Online Classroom
  • Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Through the Transformation of Nursing Education
  • Strategies for Doctoral Student Readiness, Student-Centered Support, and Inclusion
  • The Students We Have—Compassionate Grading in Online Courses
  • The SPII-Hub and other Initiatives to Advance Online Engagement
  • A Framework to Measure Inclusion
  • Assessing Institutional Readiness—A Collaboration
  • Developing a Rubric for a Person-Centered Approach to Teaching in Inclusive Online Learning Spaces
  • Framing Higher Education Through the Social Determinants of Health
  • Sustainable Strategic Planning for Inclusive Online Teaching and Learning
  • Equity in the Online Space? a Multi-Systems Perspective
  • The Social Determinants of Changemakers—A Commitment to Inclusive Teaching and Learning and a Positive Social Change Mission
  • Compilation of References
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