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Equity is suddenly a popular topic. In online learning, and at OISE, thinking about how online spaces can be fluid and safe has always been important, but it’s always good to look at our practices from a different lens.

Since the onset of online learning during COVID-19, a key equity concern for educators has been access to digital devices and the internet: how can students learn online if they don’t even have access to the necessary technology?

The use of a virtual whiteboard in Zoom asynchronous sessions has replaced the physical whiteboard used in traditional classrooms.

I am a proponent of online learning and I chose to do online courses over in-class courses for several reasons, flexibility of time and place being prime.

In these unprecedented times, as instructors, we need to make sure our students feel supported.

When I think of online discussion posts, I think of them as text-based artefacts that capture elements of our thinking that we would have “said” in a face-to-face interaction.

Maybe this is your first course, or just your first one in this new world we live in. And, I’m guessing you just logged in to your first classes and thought..wow!

Being home with my kids (4 years old and 19 months) the past 8 weeks has had us in our own little theme park…equipped with many emotional rollercoasters.

As faculty go online this summer, we can all think about ways to make the potentially more fluid online environment a safe space.