Article: Learning Technologies
Aligning Inclusive Course Design Principles with Your Canvas Site
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This resource provides you with clear definitions of transparency, belonging, and accessibility as well as suggestions for enacting these principles in your course and Canvas site. It also provides additional web resources and peer-reviewed articles for further exploration.
Transparency helps students understand how and why they are learning course content in particular ways (tilthighered.com). Transparency can also be characterized by "the act of reciprocal communication, in the interactions among instructors and students who are sharing their understanding, plans and expectations with each other" (Winkelmes, M., 2023).