Let’s face it, every semester has disruption. A student gets sick, you get sick, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, a pandemic – big or small, disruptions occur. While you can plan on disruption you rarely can plan on when or for how long. After more than a year of disruption, most faculty have experience in delivering instruction in a virtual format. But we are also acutely aware of the potential inequity a pivot to virtual learning can create. Accessibility, connectivity, and type of device represent some of the biggest barriers that impact all students’ ability to engage in a virtual learning environment.
To support faculty, we developed a template to help faculty devise a Disruption Plan. The template is not prescriptive but rather provides topics to consider, which include the affordances and limitations of certain virtual platforms from an equity perspective. We included Daniel Stanford’s, “Bandwidth Immediacy Matrix,” as a graphic to guide decision making. The Matrix presents four Zones ranging from low immediacy and bandwidth to high immediacy and bandwidth with types of technology that fit the parameters of each zone.
Accessing the Disruption Plan in Canvas Commons
- Login to myCI and open CI Learn
- Click on Commons located on the Global Navigation Sidebar
- Search for Disruption Plan in Canvas Commons*
*Please note that you can preview the content before selecting the course(s) to import it into.
Accessing the Disruption Plan Google Doc
We’ve provided the disruption plan as a Google Doc as an alternative to importing from Canvas Commons. Use the links below to preview the plan and make your own copy.
