1st Edition

Decolonizing Digital Learning Equity Through intentional Course Design

Edited By Krystle Phirangee, Lorne Foster Copyright 2025
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores strategies to decolonize digital education, focusing on building inclusive, equitable online learning environments that respect and integrate diverse lived experiences and ways of knowing into the educational process. Addressing themes of accessibility, representation, and community-building, it offers reflective essays, teaching briefs, and research articles that highlight how... Read more

Introduction: Decolonizing digital learning: equity through intentional course design
Krystle Phirangee and Lorne Foster

Section I: Research Articles

1. Designing MOOCs in South America towards open and equitable education
Zixi Li, Xiaoying Zheng, Curtis J. Bonk and Meina Zhu

2. Promoting culturally responsive teaching in online learning: experiences and challenges of instructors and students in higher education
Yang Hyun Kim, Alex Kumi-Yeboah and Zacharia Mohammed

3. Mapping racial justice to online teacher education
Lin Wu

4. Open educational resources as the panacea for the decolonisation of e-learning content in South Africa
Siphamandla Mncube

Section II: Teaching Briefs

5. Decolonizing online learning: a reflective approach to equitable pedagogies
Anita Samuel

6. “Welcome to my backyard”: an intersectional approach to inclusive teaching in the asynchronous learning environment
Ileana da Silva, David Rogers and Amy E. Arnett

7. Photos from home: Integrating lived experience in a remote-learning environment
Mariam C. Nargolwalla

Section III: Reflective Essays

8.
Utilizing the Learner Variability Navigator to support inclusive instructional design
Pauline S. Muljana and Alison Shell

9. Who gets to decolonize: a reflection on the importance of positionality in the decolonization of digital learning spaces and learning design
Rebecca Y. Bayeck and Tutaleni Iita Asino

10. Beyond the virtual classroom: integrating artificial intelligence in online learning
Ana-Paula Correia, Sean Hickey M.A. and Fan Xu

 

 

Biography

Krystle Phirangee, PhD is a Lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (St. George Campus), Toronto, Canada. She is also a Senior Educational Developer and Lead, Assessment & Digital Learning for the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto (Scarborough Campus), Toronto, Canada.

Lorne Foster, PhD is a Professor of Public Policy and Equity Studies, as well as the Director of the Institute for Social Research, and holds the Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies and Human Rights (Tier 1) at York University, Toronto Canada.