About the Session
In this FLO Friday session, participants will formulate “ShouldAI, CouldAI, WouldAI?” questions to discuss the use of AI in their classes and assessments.
Recognizing that learning outcomes inform pedagogical practices; participants will explore how AI could be used to support achievement and to enhance student success. Generative AI has not only underscored the need for curricular innovation but also highlighted the necessity for support and training to manage this complex task.
Participants will collaborate on the future of education with an “AI perspective.” They will analyze their assessment strategies in the context of their learning outcomes and AI use among students. They will collaborate on developing a curriculum considering current and future AI use.
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This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation in this session may be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
About the Facilitator
Your FLO Facilitator for this session is Jenny Fitzgerald.
Jenny Fitzgerald (she/her) is an instructor of university success strategies, communications, and English upgrading at Capilano University. As an educator and curriculum developer, she sees the promises and challenges presented by AI in a post-secondary context. For the past two years, she has engaged in research and curriculum projects to support her students and colleagues around the ethical use of AI, focusing on adapting her courses and teaching practices to support student success. Jenny takes every opportunity to geek out with other educators and strives for collaborative innovation to mitigate the challenges posed by the rapid advancement of technology.
Celebrate Open Education Week 2025! This annual celebration is an opportunity to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning. All listed events are free and open to the public.
BCcampus Sponsored Events
Simon Fraser University: Open Education Week Community Panel
March 5, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
SFU’s Open Education Community of Practice (CoP) invites you to celebrate Open Education Week 2025 with BCcampus, the Centre for Educational Excellence, and the Library. Open education is a growing movement that seeks to make learning more affordable, accessible, collaborative, and community-engaged. SFU faculty are not only using open educational resources (i.e., openly licensed materials that are free or low-cost for students) in the classroom but also employing open educational practices, using open platforms, and exploring the intersections of open and generative AI. The panel will feature a speaker from BCcampus, as well as SFU instructors and students engaging with open education in their classrooms.
Thompson Rivers University: Open Education Week Kickoff Event
March 5, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.– 1:30 p.m.
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is hosting a catered lunch and streaming the first set of Open Education Talks, followed by an inspiring keynote by Dave Cormier, director of curriculum services at TRU Open Learning. Register to join in person or virtually!
Open Education Talk: What Might Open Ed Look Like in the Future?
The word open in education carries many meanings—spanning licensing, pedagogy, and social justice. But how do we communicate its importance effectively? This engaging session will introduce a simple, inclusive model for thinking about openness and how it can guide decision-making in education.
British Columbia Institute of Technology: Growing OERs Across Institutions: A Collaborative Cycle
March 6, 2025 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Join BCIT instructor Julia Alards-Tomalin and University of Alberta’s Valerie Miller to explore the exciting evolution of a cross-institutional OER project. Learn how Valerie’s educational game, “Become an Earth Doctor,” sparked a collaboration that led to BCIT students creating expansion decks focused on local BC ecosystems. Discover how this collaborative approach fosters a “growing” OER that benefits both institutions and beyond. This inspiring story highlights the power of OER to bridge distances and create collaborative learning opportunities.
BC Open Education Librarians: Vectors of Trust: Practicing Reciprocal Values in Challenging Times
March 6, 2025 | 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
In eduspaces, we talk about values in nebulous terms. We believe in open, we believe in barrier-free, we believe in social justice, and we believe in student-focused pedagogies. But what are these values as praxis for those of us who support student-focused spaces? In this keynote, Dr. Ann Gagné will discuss how we are currently living through a crisis of trust in higher education, institutionally, governmentally, societally, and within our own communities. She will support reflection on how trust is a vector, with both magnitude and direction that impacts the work we do and the work we want to do. By highlighting broken reciprocal values and support systems, this talk defines the moral injury seen in our eduspaces and gives participants the opportunity to leave with tangible next steps to promote trust as reciprocal and etymologically radical.
University of British Columbia: Gen AI and Open Educational Resources in Teaching & Learning
March 7, 2025 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Join us for an interactive workshop where we will explore the challenges, contradictions, and opportunities at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Open Educational Resources (OER). In this session, we will discuss the potential of AI in generating dynamic content, including interactive textbooks, and its potential in developing open educational resources and practices. We will also engage in discussions about the legal and ethical considerations of both AI and open education including copyright, privacy, and open licensing. This workshop will include practical exercises, including the co-creation of a textbook chapter, demonstrating the real-world application of AI in OER.
Community Events
Open Education Talks 2025
The Open Education Talks is a series of lightning talks and a digital poster wall focusing on open education in post-secondary institutions. These fifteen minute talks and posters cover various facets of open education including open pedagogy and learning, utilizing open educational resources, and integrating open strategies and technologies in higher education.
- Lightning Talks: Every Wednesday in March 2025, from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Each session will feature multiple speakers, who will have fifteen minutes to discuss their practice and answer participant questions.
- OE Talks Digital Poster Wall: Discover creative open education projects through infographics, posters, and visuals
UBC Open Education Week 2025
Join the UBC Library and the Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology (CTLT) for a variety of workshops and opportunities to actively share and learn about the ongoing developments and trends in Open Education.
About the MicroCourse:
Based on the success and waitlist for the September 2024 offering of this course, we are rerunning the same course. Join us for this free one-week Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse offering you opportunities to reframe some of the pedagogical approaches that could be hindering your journey towards reconciliation. 
Each day will introduce a new approach or resource aimed at weaving Indigenous perspectives into our practice, fostering decolonization and expanding our teaching repertoire.
Learning outcomes:
- Become acquainted with the B.C. Government’s distinctions-based approach.
- Reflect on what hinders us, and what motivates us, to do the work of decolonization and reconciliation.
- Share similarities and differences in our practice.
- Create visions for the future based on our individual contexts and collective aspirations.
While most of the learning will happen asynchronously, we have one optional synchronous session planned on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, from 12:00-1:30 p.m.
To get the most out of this learning experience, participants should expect to invest 2.5 asynchronous hours each day to review and reflect on the course materials and resources.
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About the facilitator:
Your FLO facilitator for this course is Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France.
Carmen (she/her) is of Indigenous heritage from the Kickapoo Nation in Northeast México. She acknowledges the privilege and responsibilities she holds for living on the land of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation, and the lək̓ʷəŋən people from the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations in the province of British Columbia. Born and raised in Monterrey, Carmen is a member of the Department of Indigenous Education at the University of Victoria, where her teaching and research focus on social justice, anti-racist education, and the experiences of in-service and pre-service teachers. Carmen’s career in education spans almost 40 years, previously working as a teacher in Mexico. She is expanding her work outside academia as a consultant for a variety of organizations such as the National Film Board, Intercultural Association of Victoria, and the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of B.C.
About the Session
Felten’s Good Practice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) provides a framework for researchers of teaching and learning within higher education. These principles emphasize the contextual nature of student learning, the importance of appropriate methodological practices, and the value of conducting inquiry in partnership with students. Recently, Hamilton and McCollum have proposed an additional principle for Great Practice in SoTL. This 6th principle serves to bridge the gap between research traditions of academic silos, improving the communication and application of scholarly findings for teaching practices across post-secondary settings.
In this session, McCollum will present models for engaging with students as partners, considerations for learner safety during research mentoring processes, and the importance of describing your research’s epistemological and ontological traditions for scholarly impact.
Speaker
Brett McCollum is the director of the centre for excellence in learning and teaching at Thompson Rivers University. He holds a PhD in chemistry (Simon Fraser University) and is a 3M National Teaching Fellow (2019). He is internationally recognized in the fields of scholarship on teaching and learning and discipline-based education research, serving as editor-in-chief of The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL).
Prior to joining TRU, McCollum was a full professor in the department of chemistry and physics at Mount Royal University. He also held an inaugural board of governor’s teaching chair, focusing on educational leadership and has served as chair of SoTL Canada, a constituency group of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
McCollum’s passion for improving the student learning experience was recognized through the MRU Undergraduate Research Supervision Award (2019), the Student Association Open Education Champion Award (2020), and the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations Distinguished Teaching Award (2021). With research experience in both quantitative and qualitative methods, McCollum is enthusiastic about evidence-based scholarly teaching and creating the conditions for faculty, staff, and students to collaborate as partners for exceptional learning experiences.
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This session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation will be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Series
The BCcampus Winter 2025 Research Speaker Series offers participants and presenters an opportunity to learn and share knowledge and advocacy on research methods, approaches, and pedagogies around accessibility, access, Indigenous engagement, and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in teaching and learning.
These livestream webinars take place every month from January to March and will allow you to learn about new research directly from the researchers.
Sessions
- January 21, 2025 – Storytelling sm̓iʔmay̓ Futurisms from the Digital Frontier. Challenging Colonial Narratives through a Digital Embodied Story Practice and Research-Creation, Mariel Belanger, Queen’s University
- February 25, 2025 – Transparent, Detailed, Ethical: An Introduction to the Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework, Kari D. Weaver, University of Waterloo Libraries
- March 11, 2025 – Engaging in Great Practices for Research on Teaching and Learning, Brett McCollum, Thompson Rivers University
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this series, participants will be able to:
- Broaden your knowledge and research skills in the B.C. post-secondary context.
- Learn about Indigenization, EDI, decolonization, and accessibility in research.
- Be inspired to participate in research communities of practice or explore the themes in your work.
- Connect with academics and community members who share your interests.