Friday May 10, 10:50 – 11:35
- Simone Hausknecht is an Instructional Designer at Royal Roads University
- Jasmine Feather Dionne is an Instructional Designer at Royal Roads University and a PhD Candidate at the University of Victoria
Session Description
As educators and designers in post-secondary institutions, it is crucial to create an inclusive environment where students are not simply included, but where multiple perspectives and ways of knowing are acknowledged and encouraged. Taking a decolonial approach to Universal Design for Learning (UDL), we discuss the addition of a category to the CAST model, multiple means of connection. With this as our focus, we use our practice as scholar practitioners to give examples of how we use this approach in our work as learning designers and instructors in post-secondary institutions. We will focus on open-space, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, land-based knowing, intersectional feminism, and connecting through multimodal approaches in online and hybrid spaces. We identify how we practice multiple means of connection with the land, waterways, communities, and self to bolster decolonial methods of learning, teaching, and knowledge production.