60-Second SoTL – Episode 94

What’s the impact of professional development cohort programs focused on redesigning courses for equity, diversity, and inclusion This episode features collective autoethnography research assessing the outcomes of a course redesign initiative:

Nakamura, Mayuko, Jennifer C. Friberg-Fort, and Mary Hollywood. 20206. “Exploring the Impacts of Course Reinvention: A Collective Autoethnography.” Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.5070/N5.53218

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Show Credits

This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric.

60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University.

Music: “Cryptic” by AudioCoffee.

Image in show art by magnific.

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