Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom
- Free to audit
- Paid certificate
- Beginner
- 5 weeks
Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom is a five-week CornellX course from Cornell's Center for Teaching Innovation, led by Mathew L. Ouellett and Melina Ivanchikova. Built around real stories, reflection and key research, it helps instructors create and sustain inclusive, student-centred learning environments. Participants work through a framework for inclusive course design, reflect on how the social identities of students and teachers play out in the classroom, pick evidence-based pedagogical strategies to try, build confidence in modelling inclusivity and facilitating discussion when unexpected issues surface, and assess their own curriculum and discipline for historical patterns of exclusion and inclusion.
edX lists the course as introductory and self-paced at two to four hours a week, with no prerequisites. The audit track is free for the course's estimated length in weeks from enrolment and excludes graded work and the certificate; the verified certificate costs $99, the lower of the two CornellX prices. Teaching is in English with English transcripts. The page notes a 2020 POD Network Innovation Award.
What you’ll learn
- Apply a framework for designing inclusive courses
- Reflect on how students' and instructors' social identities shape the classroom
- Select evidence-based teaching strategies to try in your own setting
- Facilitate discussion with confidence when unexpected issues arise
- Examine your discipline's historical patterns of inclusion and exclusion
Who it’s for
University and college instructors, teaching assistants and educational developers who want a structured, reflective introduction to inclusive teaching.
Instructors
- Mathew L. Ouellett Founding Executive Director of the Center for Teaching Innovation
- Melina Ivanchikova Associate Director, Center for Teaching Innovation
Course details
- Skills covered
- Planning
- Pedagogy
- Student Engagement
- Discussion Facilitation
- Teaching
- Communication
- Innovation
- Student-Centred Learning
- Higher Education
- Prerequisites
- None
- Subtitles
- 1 language
On edx.org
Rated 4.6 out of 5 by 46 learners; 23,902 enrolled, as shown on the course page on 20 Oct 2026. These are edx.org’s own figures, not ours.
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