Online Teaching Conference 2024

Join us on Thursday, June 27th at 1:45-2:35pm

Research shows that the way a student feels in a class positively or negatively impacts their ability to achieve their full potential and students with minoritized identities are more likely to be negatively impacted by learning conditions. Humanized online teaching is an instructional model that has been linked with high rates of belonging, particularly among students from racially minoritized groups. As helpful as that finding is, it does not provide faculty with a nuanced, real-time understanding of how different students are experiencing a class at various points in the term. Ascend is designed to fill that gap. Ascend is a research-based instrument that provides faculty with real-time disaggregated student feedback about learning measures shown to impact student success (belonging, identity safety, trust and fairness, and more). In this session, faculty from Butte College will share what they learned when they completed a 6-week Humanized Online Teaching Academy and then deployed the Ascend survey in their humanized online classes at three points in the semester. This PD approach yields valuable insights about equity-focused professional development.

Quick Links

• Humanizing Resources
  • Humanizing Infographic
  • Humanizing Academy Overview
  • Article: In Search of Belonging Online: Achieving Equity through Transformative Professional Development
• Ascend Resources
  • Ascend Website
  • White Paper: Toward Belonging in the Community College Classroom
  • What are the seven learning conditions measured by Ascend?
  • Who developed Ascend?
  • How much does it cost to use Ascend?

This grant project is administered by Foothill-DeAnza Community College District. If you have questions about this site, please contact the project’s Lead PI, Michelle Pacansky-Brock.