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Guides online instructors in designing inclusive courses using Universal Design for Learning principles. It offers strategies to accommodate diverse student needs, particularly those from underrepresented groups, and includes tips for fostering engagement, interaction, and motivation through inclusive content and activities, helping students succeed in both fully online and blended courses.

In this trailblazing book, Andratesha Fritzgerald shares inspirational stories and practical applications of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to meet the needs of our Black and Brown students.

A practical, step-by-step guide for putting the principles of universal design into action.

Offers faculty evidence-based practices to promote student success and retention, particularly for underrepresented groups. It provides strategies for creating an inclusive course environment, fostering engagement, building connections with culturally relevant material, and improving teaching methods to support student persistence, academic success, and graduation.

Explores how culturally responsive teaching improves student achievement by connecting instruction to students’ cultural experiences.

In this innovative book, Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner share practical, replicable ways you can draw from students’ strengths and promote multilingual learners' success within and beyond your own classroom walls.

Provides strategies to create a more purposeful, intentional curriculum that addresses equity and inclusion across disciplines without compromising content. The text brings together practical lesson plans and instructional options that faculty can use and adapt to deliver content in a way that is mindful of inclusion and equity.

Offers practical guidance on the design and application of campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes.

Offers strategies for creating culturally responsive instruction that supports diverse learners, including multilingual, immigrant, and minority students.

Provides instructors with research-based practices and tools to create an effective and inclusive classroom environment. This timely volume is packed full of example lessons for across a range of disciplines, tips for moving classes online, questions to stimulate thinking about various methods, and appendices on lesson planning.

In this volume, the authors focus on the importance of inclusive teaching and the role faculty can play in helping students achieve, though not necessarily in the same way.

Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and for making all students feel welcome and included.

Written by renowned teaching and learning experts, this guide offers concrete steps to help any instructor striving to ensure that all students have an equal chance for success. Here's you'll find actionable tips, grounded in research, for teaching college classes online, in person, and everywhere in between.

Grounded in research and theory, this book provides practical solutions to help faculty create an inclusive learning environment in which all students can thrive.

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.

This book explores how educators adapted their teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering strategies for building flexible, inclusive, and student-centered learning environments. Drawing on diverse roles and institutional contexts, it encourages reflective, resilient practices to support students through ongoing challenges.

This handbook examines policy and practice from around the world with respect to broadly conceived notions of inclusion and diversity within education.

This comprehensive guide addresses the continuing gaps in our knowledge about the role of culture in learning and offers an empirically-based framework and model, together with practical strategies, to assist faculty in transforming college teaching for all their students through an understanding of and teaching to their strengths.

Explores the complexities and transformative potential of teaching in culturally diverse settings, emphasizing the importance of relationship-building, self-reflection, and responsive pedagogy. Drawing from self-study and cross-cultural experiences, it offers strategies for navigating cultural differences and creating inclusive, student-centered learning environments that value diverse voices and promote pedagogical flexibility.

Provides faculty and instructors with a theoretical foundation, practical tools, and an iterative and reflective process for designing and implementing an intercultural pedagogy that also advances deep disciplinary learning.

Shares inclusive teaching insights gathered from a wide range of instructors, offering practical, research-informed strategies for creating equitable and welcoming classrooms.