Bringing Social Justice to Instructional Design Practice: A New Approach to Team Development

The purpose of our instructional design team is to service the faculty and staff of a multi-campus state university system with pay and benefits educational programming. Our learning population includes the university’s diverse workforce of over 25,000 benefits-eligible employees. We support faculty and staff with resources to make informed decisions about health and financial benefits throughout the employee lifecycle. This design case will detail and examine the team development approach we took to center equity work in our design practice. We will detail our design dilemma with an underserved employee population and how we incorporated the principles of Design Justice and self-reflective practice into our team development. This allowed us to center the voices of this learning population to create an inclusive learning environment.