Equity Through Teaching ResourcesEquity, diversity and inclusion are integrated into many of our resources and initiatives. This table focuses on the resources offered by the Delphi Center or the Health Sciences (HSC) Office of Professional & Educational Development that directly support this mission. Some offerings are tools and resources you can access now, while others are programs or initiatives that require registration.
| Online Resources | Highlight |
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| Blackboard Ally | A Blackboard add-on that provides tools to instructors and students to make the course content accessible for all. |
| Creating Accessible Courses | A webpage supporting faculty in creating and delivering courses that are accessible to students with disabilities with “How To” documents, modules and resources. |
| Self-paced Modules | Highlight |
| Bandwidth for Learning 1: Impact of Scarcity (HSC) | The first module of a two-part series on learner bandwidth, this module focuses on how racism, poverty and social marginalization reduces the cognitive resources. |
| Bandwidth for Learning 2: Recovering Bandwidth (HSC) | The second module of a two-part series on learner bandwidth, this module describes faculty and system-level strategies to help learners recover bandwidth. |
| Building an Inclusive Learning Environment (HSC) | A module discussing how an inclusive learning environment is vital, and steps all faculty can take to start building such learning environments starting with interactions to students and trainees. |
| Creating a Web of Support for UofL Students | A module that identifies and shares resources that support your students’ academic and personal growth and wellbeing. It also discusses ways to share updates on a student’s progress or concerns with other UofL professionals to support their academic and professional success. |
| Creating an Inclusive Course Environment | A module to learn who are UofL students and engage with practices you can adopt to get to know and welcome your students, as well as promote an environment which all students can thrive. |
| Designing Transparent Assignments | A module to engage with a research-based assignment framework that promotes greater equity in student outcomes such as grades and sense of belonging. This framework can be applied to your own assignment or activity. |
| Self-paced Courses | Highlight |
| LGBTQ+ Clinical Skills (HSC) | This 3-credit CME/CE clinical skills training addresses knowledge gaps to care for patients who are LGBTQ+ or have a difference of sex development (DSD). Learn skills to creating an inclusive clinical environment while will help improve patient interactions and address health disparities related to the stigma and discrimination around LGBTQ+/DSD patients. |
| Teaching Onboarding | This program includes modules on how to create an inclusive course environment, design assignments that promote equity in student achievement and connect students with resources that support their academic and personal success. |
| Reading Circles | Highlight |
| Engaged Learning Reading Circle | The book in this reading circle explores six key practices to enhance engaged learning in any course so that there is an engaged learning opportunity provided to all UofL students. |
| Initiatives & Programs | Highlight |
| Digital Storytelling Initiative | An initiative exploring the uses of digital storytelling to illuminate issues of equity, inclusion and diversity for individuals and groups. |
| Engaged Learning Reading Circle | The book in this reading circle explores six key practices to enhance engaged learning in any course so that there is an engaged learning opportunity provided to all UofL students. |
| Seminar on Teaching for New Faculty | A cross-disciplinary learning community for junior faculty and specifically offers the book, What Inclusive Instructors Do, for conversations about equity and inclusion in the classroom. |