Jennifer Moss is an instructional designer at eCampus and UAF adjunct instructor with over 25 years of experience working in higher education. She is a Creative Commons Certified Educator and is interested in how open education and emergent technologies can work together to provide equitable and successful learning experiences. 

We recognize that land acknowledgement does not equate to actions that we must take as an institution toward decolonization, anti-racism and respect. We have a long way to go in recognizing and addressing systemic issues of equity and the visible and invisible barriers within our educational institution. UAF eCampus is in a position of privilege to take deliberate action to address these issues.

As a unit of a Land, Sea and Space Grant institution, we acknowledge the university system’s role in forming and maintaining colonial structures of power through land seizure and assimilation via education, among other tactics. Recognizing this context, we at eCampus seek approaches to teaching and learning that are decolonial, anti-racist, trauma-informed and continuously reexamined.

Photo Credit: Sean Holland