DEI Course Audit Toolkit

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DEI Course Audit Toolkit

Use the DEI Course Audit Toolkit in your course and design a better learning experience for every student.
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About the DEI Course Audit Toolkit

The DEI (Diversity! Equity! Inclusion!) Course Audit Toolkit has what you need to evaluate and elevate your course to serve and reflect the diverse population that is the early learning profession. Use the DEI Audit Toolkit to enhance your practice by ensuring your students see themselves and their communities in coursework through readings, assignments, photos, videos, scenarios, and other course content.

Designed to evaluate EarlyEdU courses, the DEI Course Audit Toolkit is now publicly available (and free!) to all educators committed to improving and expanding the reach of their own courses. The toolkit resources are easy to use and adapt for in-person, online, hybrid, and blended learning environments.

What's Included

The DEI Course Audit Toolkit includes

  • DEI Audit Process: 10 steps from assembling the team and conducting the kick-off meeting to performing course updates, quality assurance, and launching the revised course
  • DEI Standards: 52 standards across 3 different domains with examples and explanations
  • DEI Personas: user examples to spark discussions and understanding of the challenges online learning may pose to diverse learners
  • Kick-off Meeting Slides: presentation for introducing the DEI audit, understanding the tools and process, preparing and conducting the audit
  • DEI Rubric: tool to track audit progress, pre-audit tasks, course bibliography, course overview, and more
  • Course Revision Plan: invitation to a debrief discussion and organizer of tasks to improve the DEI content and course design

Examples from the DEI Course Audit Toolkit

Description and a few examples for Standard A1 Terminology.

Content Creation Standard in Language category: A1 ECE terminology

Description and a few examples for Standard A1 Terminology.
View showing category, standard, score, finding, location, and suggestions to improve.

Completed example of content audit spreadsheet for a single session

View showing category, standard, score, finding, location, and suggestions to improve.
Description, DEI Application, and example for Standard B5 videos.

Course Design Standard in Images & Multimedia category: B5 Videos

Description, DEI Application, and example for Standard B5 videos.
View showing category, brief standard, scores for 10 sessions, and average.

Completed example of design scores dashboard for all sessions

View showing category, brief standard, scores for 10 sessions, and average.
Description and example of course objectives for Standard C2 diversity and inclusion.

Teaching Practice Standard in Learning Environment category: C2 Diversity and inclusion

Description and example of course objectives for Standard C2 diversity and inclusion.
Averages scores in language, instructional materials, application to ECE, assessment, presentation, image & multimedia, inclusive environment, learning environment, participant support and instructor presence.

Completed example with low scores highlighted on the overall audit average scores for all categories in the entire course

Averages scores in language, instructional materials, application to ECE, assessment, presentation, image & multimedia, inclusive environment, learning environment, participant support and instructor presence.

The DEI Course Audit Toolkit is available to educators at no-cost thanks to the Bezos Family Foundation. Through generous support, EarlyEdU expanded course reviews by hiring an internal DEI expert and engaging national partners as advisors. Together, we developed the rubric and supporting resources allowing us the ease and capacity to audit our coursework in 2023. It is our hope that you find the DEI Course Audit Toolkit equally valuable to your practice and, most importantly, your students.

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