In this 60-minute webinar, facilitators will provide research-based and experience-tested effective practices for establishing a more inclusive online presence with students and adapting course-specific policies for online.  Participants may consider this webinar as a “buffet” from which they can pick and choose to implement the practices most appropriate for their own online courses and students.  Participants are encouraged to ask questions and leverage the chat to exchange as a community their own practices for online course inclusivity. This webinar is recommended for university faculty and/or those assisting faculty with the design and teaching of their online courses.  This might also be of interest to graduate students interested in pursuing a career in teaching.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to

• Identify at least one new strategy applicable to their online course/students
• Plan at least one course update to make their online course more inclusive
• Access customizable recommended materials for course inclusivity 

Speakers

Anamara Ritt-Olson, PhD

Anamara Ritt-Olson, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine, at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She serves as the Director of community engagement for the Institute for Addiction Sciences, as the Director of the Community Health Track for the Master in Public Health at USC, an affiliate faculty with the Community Scholars Collaborative on Health Equity and is a research cluster (Biopsychosocial factors) leader for USC’s Center for the Study of Young Adult Cancer Survivors. She has decades of experience designing and evaluating health promoting prevention programs for culturally diverse populations both nationally and globally. She leads researchers in the design of approaches that are community centric and that lead to lifelong partnerships. She teaches online for the MPH program at USC in the Keck School Medicine. 

Katherine Guevara, DPPD

Dr. Guevara directs the SC CTSI Education Resource Center and its learning initiatives, and supports overall education program development, administration and evaluation. Katherine Guevara is an experienced educator and EdTech innovator.  She earned a doctorate in Policy, with research on inclusive education policy for digital equity, and a master’s degree in teaching.  As assistant adjunct faculty, Katherine enjoys teaching at USC’s Rossier School of Education and has taught specialized courses for Gould School of Law and Sol Price School of Public Policy.  She is a certified instructional designer and has developed curriculum face-to-face, online, on TV, and via mobile app in the U.S. and abroad.  Katherine is most proud of creating an educational television series and accompanying textbook that reached more than a million learners while she was a U.S. Department of State Fellow, and founding her social enterprise, Mobile Teacher, which provides a platform where educators in developing countries can share and leverage best practices to provide quality education to learners without barriers via apps that work without Internet.