2018 Festival of Learning

This is the archives page for the Festival of Learning 2018 which took place on May 28 – 30, 2018 in Vancouver, B.C.

Festival Theme – Higher Education: Handle with Care

How does care manifest – or fail to manifest – in our practices, policies, structures, spaces, technologies and pedagogies? How could we be better caretakers and caregivers in the context of post-secondary education and in service of student learning?

Inclusive by design

An important driver for the planning of the event was inclusion – ensuring that everyone can attend #FoL18. Inclusion was obvious in the details. Here are a few items we included:

Deep discounts for early-bird registrants, students, speakers, and volunteers
Free childcare
Wheelchair accessibility with preferred seating in the most accessible areas of each room
Option to add pronoun ribbons to your conference badge
All-gender washrooms
Healthy meal choices for all

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Self-care

At #FoL18, there was a superb selection of session formats, learning experiences, unique spaces, and phenomenally useful social and networking events, as well as new components, such as:

Complimentary childcare via Nannies on Call
Yoga breaks
Meditation sessions
An appreciation station to write a note of thanks to the important people in your life

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Video

#VizNotes courtesy of Giulia Forsythe

Jesse Stommel on Centering Teaching
Jonny Morris on Thriving in Post-Secondary Education

Blog posts

Building Relationships at Festival of Learning 2018 – BCcampus
Visualizing #FoL18 with TAGS – Clint Lalonde
#thebestconferenceever – recap from Douglas Educators Network
Rethinking Why and How I Attend Conferences – by Amelia Horsburgh, PhD
Virtually Connecting with #FoL18

FoL16 archives:

The Festival of Learning 2016 was a collaboration of existing groups and annual events hosted together for the first time during an exciting four-day festival experience, June 6–9, 2016.

This post-secondary education event hosted more than 400 delegates, offering a variety of session formats, learning experiences, unique spaces, as well as social and networking events.