Students don’t generally learn well, if at all, in stressful situations. Neuroscience tells us that the cortisol released during stress makes learning extremely difficult. Setting
Conversations on diversity and inclusion are not a naturally occurring phenomena in higher education classrooms. Unfortunately, the American obsession with political correctness and the Eurocentric,
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Since the election of President Barack Obama, America has been pushing a false narrative of a post-racial society. The continued killings of black and brown
I suspect the computer science (CS) department at Ball State University is like most CS departments; we have few females, and Black, Indigenous, People of
In 1970, Chester Pierce, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, coined the word “microaggression” to describe relatively slight, subtle, and perhaps even unintentional “offensive
When designing an online course we tend to create the course based on our needs and time restraints, and often do not think of our students and the reasons why they are taking an online course. To effectively meet our students diverse needs, we must step back and ask ourselves: