About the Session
Dive into the future of educational research and resource management with NotebookLM. This hands-on workshop is designed to empower educators with the tools and techniques to utilize NotebookLM as a resource tool, research assistant, and source organizer. Together, we’ll explore how to effectively upload, analyze, and synthesize information from diverse sources, transforming raw data into actionable insights. Beyond efficiency, we’ll delve into how NotebookLM can transform the student experience by fostering deeper learning, critical thinking, and research skills.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Setup and navigate NotebookLM
- Upload and organize diverse types of source materials
- Use NotebookLM’s AI-powered analysis tools to extract information
- Use NotebookLM to synthesize information and create resources
- Integrate NotebookLM into the student learning experience
- Create prompts to ask NotebookLM to perform specific tasks
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This session may be recorded, archived, and shared after the event. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation will be recorded and the recording may be made available publicly.
About the Facilitator
Driven by a passion for empowering educators, Robin Leung (he/him) is an educational media strategist and ed tech guru who champions meaningful media and learner-created content. He’s a go-to resource for navigating the ever-evolving landscape of educational technology. Robin’s adventurous spirit extends beyond the classroom; he’s an avid traveler and food lover, always ready to share a new journey.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series!
In these 90-minute workshops, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework. Participants will experiment with tools, work with fellow educators to review features of the tools, gain insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into courses.
Focus Areas for 2025-2026
- The AI Sandbox: a space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence tools and applications in educational settings.
- Other Learning Technologies: a space to explore, experiment, and review emerging learning technologies beyond AI, highlighting their potential impacts and practical applications.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 10, 2025 – Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps With H5P and AI Tools
- October 8, 2025 – The Intelligent Notebook: Become a Knowledge Expert With NotebookLM
- October 17, 2025 – [Special EdTech Sandbox] Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: the Case Against Surveillance
- November 26, 2025 – Claude vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for the Job
- January 21, 2025 – Build Your Own Teaching Bot: My Story of Creating CITE GPT as a Teaching Tool
- February 18, 2025 – Re-imagining the Past: Deepfake as a Tool for Creative Storytelling and Visual Literacy
About the Event
Creating and selecting educational resources that centre equity requires intention and planning. Without this foresight, there is a risk of perpetuating biases and harm in both the field of study and society at large. This includes the potential for inaccessible content, offensive language, harmful stereotypes, and the undue promotion of dominant cultural norms, knowledge, and identities.
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore some harms that can be perpetuated through educational materials as well as frameworks that can help us resist that harm. We will then work together to develop an equity framework you can apply to your work.
Note: This workshop will include breakout rooms to allow for small group discussion and collaborative brainstorming. Anyone not comfortable with breakout rooms will be given the option to work on their own.
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This session will not be recorded.
About the Facilitator
Josie Gray (she/her) is an advisor on the Open Education team at BCcampus, where she develops and implements projects, learning events, and initiatives that advance open education practices in the B.C. post-secondary system. Since 2016, Josie has been deeply involved in learning and instructing on accessibility best practices within open educational resources (OER). She has a Master of Design in Inclusive Design from OCAD University.
The British Columbia Open Education Community (BCOEC) welcomes members from the post-secondary sector in British Columbia and the Yukon. This community convenes monthly in virtual gatherings, fostering an environment for sharing insights, providing support, and engaging in discussions about the challenges, best practices, and current issues within open education.
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Recordings and transcripts available from past meetings: B.C. Open Education Community (Playlist)
October is Academic Integrity Month!
To mark the occasion, we’re hosting a special EdTech Sandbox Series with Ian Linkletter. This session builds on his 2024 sandbox session Beyond Surveillance: The Case Against AI Proctoring & AI Detection. Recordings, transcripts, and a blog summary of the previous session are available at the link. While this new session expands on themes from the earlier presentation, prior attendance is not required.
About the Session
In 2020, as higher education instantly pivoted to emergency remote teaching, the use of remote proctoring technology skyrocketed. Now, half a decade later, this form of surveillance has become entrenched in many of our institutions. But does this technology really uphold academic integrity, or does it undermine it? Is monitoring student behaviour during online assessment the only way forward?
In this interactive workshop, we will critically examine remote proctoring through an ethical lens, exploring its impact on student privacy, mental health, equity, and trust. Participants will be guided through real-world examples, current research, and lived experiences that challenge the assumptions behind surveillance-based assessment.
Through case study discussions, we will discuss the arguments for and against remote proctoring, and whether there are ethical alternatives that do not rely on surveillance.
Participants will leave with:
- A deeper understanding of the ethical concerns surrounding remote proctoring
- Strategies for advocating for equitable, trust-based assessment practices
- A practical introduction to Algorithmic Impact Assessments (AIAs) as a tool for evaluating automated decision systems and protecting students.
Whether you’re an instructor, learning designer, or academic leader, this session invites you to reimagine what academic integrity can look like – without surveillance.
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This notice is to inform you that this session may be recorded, archived, and shared after the event. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation will be recorded and the recording may be made available publicly.
About the Facilitator
Ian Linkletter (he/him) is an emerging technology and open education librarian at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He works to evaluate emerging technologies through a critical lens and implement open education as a social good. Previously, he worked for 10 years as a learning technology specialist in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, where he supported every online course.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series!
In these 90-minute workshops, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework. Participants will experiment with tools, work with fellow educators to review features of the tools, gain insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into courses.
Focus Areas for 2025-2026
- The AI Sandbox: a space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence tools and applications in educational settings.
- Other Learning Technologies: a space to explore, experiment, and review emerging learning technologies beyond AI, highlighting their potential impacts and practical applications.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 10, 2025 – Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps With H5P and AI Tools
- October 8, 2025 – The Intelligent Notebook: Become a Knowledge Expert With NotebookLM
- October 17, 2025 – [Special EdTech Sandbox] Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: the Case Against Surveillance
- November 26, 2025 – Claude vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for the Job
- January 21, 2025 – Build Your Own Teaching Bot: My Story of Creating CITE GPT as a Teaching Tool
- February 18, 2025 – Re-imagining the Past: Deepfake as a Tool for Creative Storytelling and Visual Literacy
About the Event
This one-week Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse is designed to help educators and instructional designers bridge the gap between the theory and practice of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to make learning more equitable and meaningful. Participants will draw on UDL principles to plan and develop assessments, evaluate strategies, and provide constructive feedback on each other’s work. They are also encouraged to incorporate other pedagogical theories alongside UDL. This course is best suited for those with a theoretical understanding of UDL who are ready to explore its practical application in different scenarios and contexts.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate the application of UDL principles to make learning environments more equitable
- Apply UDL principles to remove barriers from assessments
- Evaluate the efficacy of UDL principles in removing barriers
Course Logistics
Time commitment: 8–10 hours
Format: Asynchronous
While most of the learning will happen asynchronously, we will offer an optional synchronous session on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 9:30–10:30 a.m. PST.
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This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and shared with course registrants. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation in this session will be recorded and the recording will be made available to other course participants.
About the Facilitator
Hajime Kataoka (he/him) is an uninvited guest from Kobe, Japan who lives on the traditional territory of Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. As a Director of Online Learning Services at the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Victoria, he provides leadership in the advancement of the Division’s online learning strategy.
About the Event
Sharing facilitation strategies. Growing together.
You are invited to join our “FLO Pod” (Practices of Online Development), a peer-led community of practice for FLO (Facilitating Learning Online) participants.
Building and expanding on the work of Matty Hillman’s BCcampus research fellowship, we invite you to join the BCcampus Trauma-Informed Post Secondary Community of Practice (CoP). Using the Trauma-Informed principles (Carello, 2021) as a foundation, each CoP/Pod meeting will provide space for information and discussion on trauma-informed teaching practices and perspectives.
As the Pod matures, we hope that hosting responsibilities will rotate among the members. This aligns with Wenger’s (1998) concept of a thriving CoP, where mutual engagement, shared responsibility, and the co-construction of knowledge are central. Inspired by models like the POD Network, the FLO Pod is uniquely focused on peer-led online facilitation, i.e., a peer-led space to grow. This is an open Pod, meaning participants can join any sessions that work for them, however, in order to build a supportive and cohesive group, we strongly encourage you to schedule the meetings in your calendar and attend as many as possible.
Sessions
Synchronous sessions will be held from 1:00–3:00 p.m. PT:
- Monday September 22
- Monday October 6
- Monday October 27
- Monday November 17
- Monday December 1
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These sessions will not be recorded.
Registrants will be asked to create a SCoPE (Moodle account) where Pod resources will be shared.
References
Carello, J. (2020). TITL general principles 3.20. Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning
Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge University Press.
About the Facilitator
Matty Hillman is a counsellor, instructor, and educational developer at Selkirk College in the beautiful Kootenay region of B.C., the traditional territory of the Sinixt people. His research interests include sexual violence prevention and response on post-secondary campuses, trauma-informed post-secondary education, and radical youth work. Matty is a regular contributor to various BCcampus projects. As a muralist, he is especially interested in the intersection of youth work and public art, exploring the opportunity these complementary practices create for empowerment, community building, and social justice advancements.
About the Event
Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming how students learn and produce work, raising urgent questions about how we design meaningful and fair assessments. This interactive workshop explores alternative approaches that move beyond simply “catching” AI use, instead focusing on fostering critical, authentic, and reflective learning.
We’ll revisit the three purposes of assessment (of, for, and as learning) to examine how each is disrupted and reimagined by GenAI. Participants will explore practical frameworks as potential guides for creating meaningful assessments. We’ll conclude by crowdsourcing alternative assessment ideas that meaningfully and equitably integrate GenAI.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between assessment of, for, and as learning, in the context of GenAI
- Explore different frameworks to evaluate and redesign assessment tasks
- Generate alternative assessment ideas relevant to their own teaching contexts
We encourage you to bring an example of an assessment from your course you may wish to refine or redesign. The first 90 minutes will be a structured workshop and will be followed by an optional 30-minute session dedicated to reviewing participants’ assessment examples and providing feedback.
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This workshop will not be recorded.
About the Facilitators
Your FLO facilitators for this session will be Dr. Gwen Nguyen and Dr. Helena Prins, both advisors on the BCcampus Learning + Teaching team.
Session Description
Millions of Canadian learners are affected by learning disabilities, yet these challenges often go misunderstood, leading to poorer educational outcomes and repeated negative experiences. This session will provide a brief overview of learning disabilities, how they commonly show up in classroom settings, and evidence-based strategies for supporting these learners.
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This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and shared after the event. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation will be recorded and the recording will be made available publicly.
About the Facilitator
Dr. Jennifer Fane (she/her) is the Lead Research Associate in the Education and Skills knowledge area at The Conference Board of Canada. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD in education, public health, and social policy from Flinders University, South Australia. She started her career as a classroom teacher and has worked as a teacher, professor, and educational researcher in the birth-to-five, K-12, and post-secondary systems in Canada and Australia for over 18 years. Prior to joining the Conference Board, Jennifer was the Director of Education at the Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver, supporting neurodivergent learners ages three-to-adult across BC. Jennifer brings a passion for translating research into practice to her work at the Board.
This session is supported by The Conference Board of Canada.
The Conference Board of Canada is an independent, not-for-profit research organization whose goal is to equip Canadian leaders and decision makers with the integrated and independent research required to enable them to tackle society’s greatest challenges. This session presents research conducted in partnership with the Future Skills Centre on the neuroinclusivity of Canadian post-secondary education.
2025-26 Accessibility Bites Series
- Accessibility Bites: Introduction to Web Accessibility, August 28, 2025
- Accessibility Bites: Supporting Post-Secondary Students with ADHD, September 25, 2025
- Accessibility Bites: Let’s Talk about Learning Disabilities, October 30, 2025
- Accessibility Bites: The Gift of Dyslexia, November 27, 2025
- Accessibility Bites: Access Friction, December 11, 2025
- Accessibility Bites: UDL 3.0 in Practice, January 29, 2026
- Accessibility Bites: An Indigenous Lens on Disability Rights, February 26, 2026
For recordings and resources from previous Accessibility Bites workshops, visit the Accessibility Bites Pressbook.
About the Workshop
Tired of hearing about amazing and flashy educational technology tools that cost more than your entire budget? This workshop is for educators who want to innovate without breaking the bank. Join fellow educators for hands-on and demonstration sessions featuring practical EdTech solutions. Our presenters share real classroom examples using free tools, creative ways to repurpose existing resources, and collaborative approaches that don’t require large investments.
Join this participatory workshop where you will connect with other educators to try out tools, participate in demonstrations, and ask questions. Each presenter will showcase examples of successful implementation using affordable tech in their own teaching practice. The day will begin with a guided networking and socializing opportunity where you can chat with colleagues over coffee, and then we will continue with interactive presentations. The workshop will end mid-afternoon so that you can get home in time for trick-or-treating!
Educational technology doesn’t have to be expensive to be effective. Discover what’s possible when educators share resourceful solutions and collaborate to solve common challenges.
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This session may be recorded, archived, and shared after the event.
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Call for Proposals (Submit by September 29, 2025)
Event Description
Join us for a fun and energizing 90-minute Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) workshop to explore innovative course design ideas. Although EdTech and video games have vastly different audiences, they share many design principles that can drastically affect users’ wellness and success.
In this session, participants will:
– Hear stories of experience design fails and breakthroughs in the tech industry
– Inspect emotional and wellness effects of different digital experiences
– Explore lessons from the tech and game industry when designing courses for digital spaces
– Implement a design principle on your own courses
No previous gaming experience required!
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This session will not be recorded.
About the Facilitator
Selina McGinnis (she/them) is a Product and Experience Designer in the tech industry, who has learned about how people engage with digital environments, including learning management systems, websites, apps, and even video games. They have worked in technology in B.C.’s post-secondary sector for over 10 years, solving student, administrator, and instructor challenges through technology products, services, and process design.