This Open book, based on a open course offered at York University (Canada), is developed by Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, professor at York University (Canada), and  Sushumna Rao, instructional designer (India). The contents of this course/microcredit were developed under grant DPPF_2223_034_York_FSL Projects awarded from the Ontario Ministry of Education Links to an external site and Heritage CanadaLinks to an external site.

 Please note that the views expressed in the publication are the views of the Recipient of the award ad co-author of the course and do not necessarily reflect those of the Province.

This course developed is composed of four modules with interesting activities and a final assignment which will lead to the course participation / completion certificate. Here we tried to provide all the Course modules as chapters with activities assignments offered in the course. First module started with a Welcome module with brief Introduction and Significance of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and activities like Meet and Greet!, Pre-Course Survey along with a general course queries forum – Gneral Course Queries, which are incorporated in first module of the course. (In Moodle LMS)

In the course, the Second module started with UDL overview   followed by Assignment UDL Review 13 pts (Score at least 8), which are added here as second chapter titled UDL overview.

The Third module in the course is about CRP (Culturally Responsive Pedagogy). And it starts with a brief overview of CRP  followed by these activities :-

• Finding OER that helps to embed CRP principles ,
• Remix, adapt to make the resource fits to the needs and
• Let’s read some scenarios and answer the questions
• Applying Gholdy Muhammad’s CRP Framework in your Teaching
• Share your thoughts on Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad’s framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Education

which are added here into the third chapter titled Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and OER.

The Fourth module of the course is about Enhancing Culturally Responsive Pedagogy with AI.  And it starts with a brief introduction on AI and Educators, followed by interesting activities like OER for CRP using AI which are added here into the fourth chapter titled