Session Description
Web accessibility means making sure everyone can use your website, including people with disabilities. This brief session will introduce the basics of digital accessibility and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). We’ll cover common issues that make websites inaccessible and how this impacts real users. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of what digital accessibility is and why it is essential.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the purpose of the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Analyze audience needs and understand diverse user experiences, including that of people with disabilities
- Learn about common issues that make websites inaccessible
- Identify potential website barriers and explore actionable ways to improve accessibility
Schedule
- Introductions and access information – 2 minutes
- Key definitions – 5 minutes
- Overview of the WCAG and common inaccessibility issues – 10 minutes
- Understanding your audience – 5 minutes
- Actionable items – 3 minutes
- Q+A – 5 minutes
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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
Nora Loyst (she/her) is an accessibility consultant with Untapped Accessibility who brings expertise in service delivery, facilitation, and community engagement. She is passionate about collaborating with community to translate accessibility planning into practice. Nora holds a B.A. in Health and Community Services from UVic and is currently completing her Masters in Leadership Studies. Her commitment to accessibility is guided by her own lived experience as a person with a disability and she is enriched by the varied perspectives and experiences of her friends, family, and community.
This session is supported by Untapped Accessibility. Untapped Accessibility launched in October 2022 to support BC organizations comply with the Accessible British Columbia Act. A certified social enterprise, they have helped over 180 organizations reach beyond compliance and create more accessible organizations with comprehensive and innovative approaches to disability inclusion. They generate revenue for Open Door Social Services Society, supporting the non-profit’s mission to open doors to lifelong learning and career success for more people with disabilities.
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.
Join us for this free virtual session as we wrap up our summer and prepare for the new academic year.
We invite educators teaching this fall to bring their FLO (Facilitating Learning Online) or FLIP (Facilitating Learning in Person) design challenges to this 90-minute virtual coaching circle. In this session, participants will learn to use John Whitmore’s GROW model to ask questions as a way of supporting colleagues’ or students’ growth. 
The GROW model is an easy way to introduce coaching by using a framework to identify and set goals (G), reflect on the current reality (R), revisit options and opportunities (O), and set out with a plan that will (W) be done to achieve goals.
Participants will have the opportunity to practice this new learning in a facilitated coaching circle, where instructional challenges are brought forward and peers offer reflective questions to help find solutions.
Note: We use the GROW model of coaching at BCcampus to help each other work through challenges!
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This session will not be recorded.
About the Facilitators
Robynne Devine (she/her) is the Senior Project Manager of the Project Management Office at BCcampus. Robynne holds a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, specializing in leadership and organizational culture. In addition, Robynne designed and leads a peer coaching community of practice at BCcampus. When Robynne isn’t working she is likely cuddling with her dogs or playing with her grandson.
About the Session
This hands-on workshop empowers learning designers and professors to create engaging, decision-based learning experiences using H5P’s branching scenario and game map features. Participants will explore how AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and NotebookLM can streamline scenario planning, dialogue generation, and feedback loops. No prior programming skills needed—just creativity and curiosity.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Design interactive branching scenarios aligned with pedagogical goals using H5P
- Use AI tools to co-develop dialogue, storyline paths, and assessment logic efficiently
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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 Facilitators
Gabriela Kurtz holds a PhD in Communication and Information, with award-winning research on gender and video games. She is an assistant professor at the University of the Fraser Valley where she champions empathetic, inclusive, and tech-forward pedagogy through active learning and experiential design.
Sana Jamil is an educational technologist with a PhD in Educational Technology and expertise in instructional design, leadership, and innovation. She leads curriculum development and experiential learning initiatives at University Canada West to support faculty training and program enhancement.
Together, Sana and Gabriela bring a powerful blend of strategy and creativity, making them the ideal team to guide educators in leveraging AI and H5P to design meaningful, learner-centered interactive experiences.
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
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)
About the Event
Sharing facilitation strategies. Growing together.
You are invited to join our first ever “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. PST on the following Mondays:
– September 22
– October 6
– October 27
– November 17
– 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.
Event Description
Join us for this Facilitating Learning in Person (FLIP) workshop on the beautiful Richmond campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU).
Settler educators often experience unease about “doing it wrong” which can discourage them from meaningfully engaging with Indigenous ways of knowing, or incorporating them into their practice. This hesitation can lead to benign resistance: a phenomena where mixed, cyclic emotions like hope, curiosity, responsibility, guilt, doubt, hesitation, and fear prevent genuine progress (J.P. Restoule 2011). These emotions often arise from acknowledged or unacknowledged settler privileges that are frequently invisible to those who hold it.
The result is a surface awareness of Indigenous issues that misses deeper engagement with how settlers have benefited from systemic injustice, cultural erasure, and intergenerational trauma. Under the guise of creating space for marginalized voices, this can unintentionally shift the responsibility of dismantling systemic racism onto those most impacted. The result is often the overburdening of Indigenous partners, who are frequently asked to guide settler educators on their personal journeys of decolonization and reconciliation.
In this collaborative session, members of the 2024 SoTL Canadian Collaborative Writing Group will invite participants to explore these dynamics through their own experiences as settler educators.
Drawing on resources such as The Indigenous Knowledge Implementation Packsack, participants will:
- Share experiences of unease and other forms of benign resistance, and explore ways to address and reconcile with them
- Reflect on practical and personally meaningful strategies for decolonizing their own field or practice
We would like to thank KPU for their partnership in bringing this workshop to BC post-secondary educators.
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This workshop will not be recorded.
References
Restoule, J. P. (2011). Everything is alive and everyone is related: Indigenous knowing and inclusive education.
In C. Rolheiser, M. Evans & M. Gambhir (Eds.), Inquiry into practice: Reaching every student through inclusive curriculum practices (pp. 17–18). Ontario Institution for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
About the Facilitators
Your FLIP facilitator is Bhuvinder Singh. He may also be joined by three asynchronous facilitators:
- Monica Palkowski (she/her) Education Programs Associate, McMaster University
- Shawn Xiong (he/him) Instructor & Teaching Lab Coordinator, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dalhousie University
- Kate Thompson (she/her) Educational Developer (SoTL), Centre for Learning and Teaching Dalhousie University
Bhuvinder Singh Vaid (he/him/his) is an Educational Developer at the Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at Capilano University. Bhuvinder’s nearly two decades of work in higher education and consultancy with subject-matter experts are informed by his recognition that teaching and learning exist as uniquely relational practices that are not easily standardized. This understanding has informed his work studying the positionality of seemingly straightforward educational concepts such as safe spaces, efficiency, free speech, and currently, how to pedagogically engage with Coast Salish knowledge in a respectful and meaningful way.
This workshop was co-developed by Bettina Boyle (she/her). Bettina is an Educational Developer at the CTE at Capilano University. She also currently teaches cross-cultural business and organizational behaviour in the School of Business and the School of Legal Studies. As an uninvited guest on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples, she is grateful for the Coast Salish Peoples’ stewardship of the land and for their resilience in the face of colonization and adversity. Originally from Denmark, Bettina continues to unlearn and learn from the land and the local Nations, and she is committed to uplifting and centering Indigenous voices in her teaching, facilitation, consultations, and workshops.
Event Description
Join us for a free Facilitating Learning in Person (FLIP) workshop on LEGO® Serious Play (LSP) on September 24 from 1–3 p.m. at Capilano University. This interactive, in-person workshop introduces educators to the core principles and practices of the LSP methodology and explores its powerful applications in higher education. Through hands-on individual and group activities, participants will experience the four-step LSP process: posing questions, building, sharing, and reflecting. In addition to exploring its theoretical foundations and historical context, participants will gain insight into how LSP can be used to enhance teaching and learning across a wide range of subjects.
The session will be delivered live and in person. All B.C. post-secondary educators are invited!
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe the origins, development, and research underpinning the LSP approach.
- Identify and explain the four essential stages of the LSP methodology.
- Analyze how LSP can be adapted for various disciplines and learning contexts in higher education.
- Design learning activities that effectively integrate the LSP methodology.
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This workshop will not be recorded.
Given the limited number of seats available, we ask that you consider your availability and capacity to attend the full workshop in person before registering. Your attendance will be expected, and, if your plans change, please cancel in advance so we can offer your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Thanks to Capilano University for providing free space for this workshop.
About the Facilitators
Olga Gonokhova (she/her) is an EAP/English instructor at Capilano University and Acsenda School of Management, with over 15 years’ experience teaching academic English, communication, and public speaking. She integrates innovative strategies such as LEGO® Serious Play into her post-secondary classes to promote student engagement, collaboration, and critical thinking. Olga holds a Master’s degree in TEFL/TESL Education and currently serves as the Student Success Convenor in her department at Capilano University.
Fuat Ramazanov (he/him) is the director of the International Business Management Program at the Acsenda School of Management, a private post-secondary institution in Vancouver. As an educator, he is passionate about using creative and innovative approaches to teaching that stimulate engagement and learning and boost confidence and creativity in his students. His teaching style incorporates a blend of stories, expertise, games, and humour. Fuat designed the Creativity and Design Thinking in Business course incorporating various applications of generative AI across different stages of the creative process. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Calgary, with research focused on exploring students’ perceptions of the intersection between human and AI creativity.
Session Description
This brief session will offer practical strategies for creating learning environments that support students with ADHD. You’ll learn how to reduce cognitive load to support executive functioning, explore multi-modal teaching methods, and discuss ways to build flexibility without sacrificing accountability. Whether you’re designing a course or working one-on-one with students, you’ll leave with tools to better meet their needs and help them thrive.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify key challenges faced by post-secondary students with ADHD
- Select multi-modal strategies to support diverse attention and learning needs
- Examine course elements that balance flexibility and accountability to promote student success
Schedule
- Introductions and access information – 5 minutes
- Key definitions – 5 minutes
- Overview of multi-modal learning and cognitive load – 10 minutes
- Building in both flexibility and accountability – 5 minutes
- Wrap-up and ongoing learning: access statements – 5 minutes
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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
Meg Ingram (they/them) is a multiply-disabled accessibility advocate with a passion for project management, planning coordination, and equitable education. Drawing from their background working in both higher education and social services, they have a deep passion for carving out accessible processes and building meaningful relationships within and across sectors. Meg holds an M.A. in Sociology, with a focus in disability studies, from Queen’s University, and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Victoria.
This session is supported by Untapped Accessibility. Untapped Accessibility launched in October 2022 to support BC organizations comply with the Accessible British Columbia Act. A certified social enterprise, they have helped over 180 organizations reach beyond compliance and create more accessible organizations with comprehensive and innovative approaches to disability inclusion. They generate revenue for Open Door Social Services Society, supporting the non-profit’s mission to open doors to lifelong learning and career success for more people with disabilities.
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.
Event Description
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.
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
- Utilize 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 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
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