student-led learning skills workshop for students. As online learners, we constantly communicate with others using a variety of platforms. Which platforms are best suited to different types of communication? How might you engage effectively online with a professor, a classmate, or a colleague? This session helps you build your communication confidence by considering best practices and recommendations when communicating online, using a variety of methods- from email, to instant messaging, to video chat. This session is full, but we will be offering these workshops at different dates and times throughout the summer so please be sure to subscribe to the BCcampus newsletter for upcoming events. 
Are you facilitating an online course this fall and still feel a bit overwhelmed about utilizing Zoom for your lectures? Want to practice creating breakout rooms, screen sharing, and other hosting functions within Zoom? Come play with us in this safe space for Zoom beginners!
We have created four sandbox sessions with only 10 participants per session to allow you some time to build your confidence through practice! If you cannot make it to this session, please visit our calendar to see our three other available dates and times!
This event is free. To ensure we have an inclusive and welcoming environment for all, we’ve added registration to our online office sessions. Please note that registration will close one hour before the event.
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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 will be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
Instructional support professionals such as instructional designers and educational technologists often work on the front line of implementation of open educational practices (OEP). They are therefore in a position to influence awareness and adoption of OEP in course and program development. In this capacity, they function as change agents within their institutions, and thereby also face barriers and practical challenges on multiple fronts. Our goal in this research was to examine what about OEP these professionals most value, their current practices, and what factors may enable or inhibit them in their roles and their ability to have an influence on change within their institutions. Against the background of emerging open educational practices, a survey and interviews were conducted with instructional design professionals to establish, from their experience and practice, their roles and potential for advocacy for open educational practices (OEP) including open educational resources (OER).
In this session, we will share some of the most salient results and hope to generate discussion about strategies for effectively advocating for and implementing OEP in our institutions while also maintaining a critical stance. How can we best support our design professionals in their roles and support the work that they can potentially do to transform practice? What are the perceived barriers and enablers to making change and how can those inform strategic initiatives? These questions become increasingly relevant, particularly in the current situation where the urgency to pivot to online/remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis eventually shifts to more stable and embedded processes.
BIOS:
Dr. Michelle Harrison is a Senior Instructional Designer and Assistant Professor at Thompson Rivers University—Open Learning, current Co-Chair of the Learning Design and Innovations Department, and also teaches graduate online courses for TRU and Royal Roads University. Her research interests lie in learning design, science education, open educational practices, and designing learning spaces with emerging educational technologies. She has a PhD in e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning from Lancaster University in the UK, where she focused on exploring how we perceive and use space in networked learning environments.
Dr. Irwin DeVries teaches and develops online courses in higher education at the graduate level and is currently Associate Faculty with the School of Education and Technology at Royal Roads University and Adjunct Faculty with Thompson Rivers University, School of Education. His work and research focus on open educational practices and teaching and learning with technology in open education environments. Most recently he was director of curriculum development and interim associate vice-president of Open Learning at Thompson Rivers University. He holds a PhD in Education from Simon Fraser University, where he researched open course design and development processes.
This event is free. To ensure we have an inclusive and welcoming environment for all, we’ve added registration to our online office sessions. Please note that it will close two hours before the event.
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 will be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
Are you facilitating an online course this fall and still feel a bit overwhelmed about utilizing Zoom for your lectures? Want to practice creating breakout rooms, screen sharing, and other hosting functions within Zoom? Come play with us in this safe space for Zoom beginners!
We have created four sandbox sessions with only 10 participants per session to allow you some time to build your confidence through practice! If you cannot make it to this session, please visit our calendar to see our three other available dates and times!
This event is free. To ensure we have an inclusive and welcoming environment for all, we’ve added registration to our online office sessions. Please note that registration will close one hour before the event.
Register now!
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 will be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
Audience:
Faculty, staff and student leaders
Session Description:
Facilitator:
Ian Linkletter (MLIS, University of Western Ontario) is a Learning Technology Specialist in the Faculty of Education at UBC. He specializes in online learning, working with faculty to help them integrate technology with their teaching in effective, evidence-based, and innovative ways.
Guest Experts:
- Mari Pighini, PhD – Cohort Advisor and Lecturer – ECE Programs. Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
- Pan Luo – Senior Program Analyst and Lead For Devops Team – UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, University of British Columbia
- Troy Welch – Innovation Developer, Learning and Technology and Innovation – Thompson Rivers University
This event is free. To ensure we have an inclusive and welcoming environment for all, we’ve added registration to our online office sessions. Please note that it will close two hours before the event.
Register now!
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 will be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
Due to popular demand, FLO Bootcamp is back! Are you a B.C. post-secondary educator teaching a course online this fall? Did you have a rough “pivot” to online and want to fix up only the most important stuff before it runs online again? Or maybe you missed the pivot (lucky!), but still have a course you want to optimize for online delivery? Join us for a four-day crash course on only the MOST important stuff: lectures, assignments, proctored exams, your online presence, and dialing back a bit on the zooming!
- Length: 1 week – Mon – Thu with an optional final drop-in Friday morning 10-12
- Mode: Online, using a variety of synchronous and asynchronous tools
- Pre-requisites: None, but you do need an existing course to work with (i.e., this is not a “start from scratch” situation). Ideally, it’s a course that went through a fast pivot to online this spring, but any course (whether online or f2f) that exists will do. You need not have taught it before.
- Time commitment: Participants should expect to spend 4+ hours per day, for 4 days. Folx with less experience teaching online can expect to need more time.
- Fees: This course has a $25 non-refundable registration fee
Your FLO Bootcamp Design and Facilitator Team is looking forward to supporting you in this intensive week
If you are ready to join this fun, intensive course, register now!
Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourses are short, single-topic, hands-on, practical, and free. In one week you will have an opportunity to dip into the FLO experience and leave with something practical and useful for your own teaching practice.
You probably already know that Wikipedia consistently ranks among the top 10 websites visited worldwide. But you may be less aware of the dozen other projects supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, all offering participatory knowledge beyond the purely encyclopedic. In this MicroCourse, we’ll go on a tour of the Wikiverse, exploring some of the lesser-known Wiki-projects to uncover fresh ideas for your open pedagogy practice.
This course includes mostly asynchronous activities which means you can spread your 6 to 13 hours of participation over the whole week. Synchronous sessions will be recorded. Spreading out participation over each day is ideal.
Are you facilitating an online course this fall and still feel a bit overwhelmed about utilizing Zoom for your lectures? Want to practice creating breakout rooms, screen sharing, and other hosting functions within Zoom? Come play with us in this safe space for Zoom beginners!
We have created four sandbox sessions with only 10 participants per session to allow you some time to build your confidence through practice! If you cannot make it to this session, please visit our calendar to see our three other available dates and times!
This event is free. To ensure we have an inclusive and welcoming environment for all, we’ve added registration to our online office sessions. Please note that registration will close one hour before the event.
Register now!
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 will be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
Audience: Open to everyone
About this session:
Lynn-Marie and Melissa-Rae are two Indigenous women entrepreneurs and co-founders of Sisters Sage. In 2018 they opened their business with the goal of using traditional indigenous ingredients to create modern self-care and wellness products. Join us in a conversation to learn how Sisters Sage got started, the use of traditional indigenous ingredients in contemporary ways, and the importance of Indigenous-owned and operated businesses. Check out their website: https://sisterssage.com/ and follow them on social media @sisters_sage
This event is free. To ensure we have an inclusive and welcoming environment for all, we’ve added registration to our online office sessions. Please note that it will close two hours before the event.
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 will be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
For our safety and wellness during COVID-19, online learning will be a feature of our educational landscape for some time to come. This webinar will help you navigate some of the issues that the pivot to online has presented and how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles can support both you and your students. This webinar is rich with practical tips, strategies, and examples whether you are new to UDL or a seasoned practitioner. There will be plenty of time for Q&A so be sure to bring your questions and conundrums.
Bios:
Seanna Takacs, PhD
Seanna is a faculty member in Accessibility Services and Educational Consultant (UDL) for the Teaching and Learning Commons at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She has taught, researched, and supported students and faculty in accessibility and inclusive practice for over 15 years. She is currently the co-chair of the Accessibility and Inclusion Community of Practice for CACUSS. She regularly consults and conducts workshops on Universal Design for Learning, accessible and inclusive practices, with a recent publication on UDL for the Justice Institute of British Columbia in partnership with BC Campus. Seanna holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from Simon Fraser University.
Junsong Zhang, MEd, MDM
Junsong is an Instructional Designer at the Center for Teaching, Learning and Innovation at Justice Institute of British Columbia. He is passionate about transforming learning experiences with digital technology and fostering personal and professional development for instructors and students. His recent projects include designing UDL workshops and guides for JIBC faculty. Junsong holds a Master of Education from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Digital Media from the Center for Digital Media.
Faculty Guest
Arley Cruthers, MFA
Arley teaches Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and is passionate about open pedagogy and open education. She is the creator of the OER textbook Business Writing for Everyone: An Inclusive Guide to Workplace Communications and is currently an Open Education Teaching Fellow at KPU. For her work in inclusive approaches to open, she received an Excellence in Open Education award from BCCampus. Arley often speaks and conducts workshops on open education and open pedagogy and has been a guest on the podcasts Teaching in Higher Ed and Praxis Pedagogy Podcast. Arley has an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has also published several novels.
This event is free. To ensure we have an inclusive and welcoming environment for all, we’ve added registration to our online office sessions. Please note that it will close two hours before the event.
Registration coming soon!
This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on covid19.bccampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation in this session will be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.