Sunday, May 10, 2020

How Online Learning Can Strengthen Our Democracy - Eboo Patel, Inside Higher Ed

I am increasingly learning that online education has a certain set of advantages when it comes to teaching about diversity, too.  And now, because of COVID-19, almost every college student in the United States will be doing some of their higher education online. So if engaging diversity positively is part of the future of our democracy, and online learning is part of the future (and present) of higher education, where do the two meet? Through online learning experiences that engage diversity positively in ways that are organic and indigenous to the online environment.
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/conversations-diversity/how-online-learning-can-strengthen-our-democracy