- July 17, 2024 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- July 31, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- August 14, 2024 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- August 21, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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About the Session:
This event is a part of the OER Production Series and represents part one in our exploration of accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in open educational resources (OER).
In this webinar, we will introduce how to design OER that meets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). We describe the principles behind WCAG, introduce assistive technologies, and explain how to create accessible tables, images, videos, audio, links, and math equations. By creating educational materials with accessibility in mind, we can ensure these resources are more useful, powerful, and accessible to all.
To view the other events in this series, visit OER Production Series.
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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 Facilitator:
Arianna Cheveldave (she/her) is a coordinator on the Open Education Team at BCcampus. Since 2018, she has been dedicated to enhancing accessibility in educational materials. She finds joy in educating others on strategies to ensure educational resources cater to the needs of all learners.
About the Session:
This event, part of the OER Production Series, is the first of two sessions discussing how to use Pressbooks to create and share open educational resources (OER). We will introduce Pressbooks and show you how to create and share OER with students and fellow educators. Pressbooks is an online self-publishing tool available to all post-secondary faculty and staff in B.C. and the Yukon. Topics include how to create an account, how to create a book in Pressbooks, and an overview of the Pressbooks editor. The webinar will also introduce such topics as creating math equations using MathJax, importing content, H5P, and sharing books in multiple formats.
To view the other events in this series, visit OER Production Series.
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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 Facilitator:
Harper Friedman (he/him) is the coordinator of Open Textbook Publishing at BCcampus, helping to create OER, primarily in Pressbooks. Through this work he has developed his knowledge of Pressbooks and LaTeX as well as accessibility best practices.
About the Session:
This event is a part of the OER Production Series and represents part two of our exploration of Pressbooks, an online self-publishing tool available to all post-secondary faculty and staff in B.C. and the Yukon. This webinar will explore various advanced features of Pressbooks. Attendees will get to see a Pressbooks web book edited in real time to demonstrate complex Pressbooks topics in a hands-on way. Topics included are basic H5P, LaTeX, adding users and user roles, internal links and anchors, footnotes, the glossary tool, importing content, and custom styles. To view the other events in this series, visit OER Production Series.
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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 Facilitator:
Arianna Cheveldave (she/her) is a coordinator on the Open Education Team at BCcampus. Since 2019, she has contributed publications to Pressbooks, and has picked up some valuable skills along the way. Arianna enjoys sharing her expertise and addressing inquiries about Pressbooks through open@bccampus.ca.
This one-hour webinar will introduce participants to some newly released, openly licensed materials in the Digital Literacy collection that focus on weaving Indigenous ways of knowing into technology-supported teaching and learning practices.
In conversation with the authors, participants will get a brief overview of what is available, plus specific ideas for how to apply these ideas and tools to bring reconciliation into teaching and learning practices. These materials were created to support learning about Indigenous-specific considerations associated with each of the eight digital literacy competencies in the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework.
Some questions include: What ethical and legal responsibilities do educators and students have when working with Indigenous data? Or more broadly: How can we make learning spaces – including online – more culturally inclusive for the benefit of all students?
This webinar will interest post-secondary educators, learning and curriculum designers, and those seeking ways to decolonize and improve learning spaces and practices for all students.
*Please note, there will be no breakout rooms in this session and the webinar will be recorded.
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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 Facilitators
Connie Strayer
Connie is both Métis and German. She was raised as a guest on the unceded and traditional territory of the Stz’uminus Peoples and currently lives, works, and plays on the unceded lands of the Qualicum and Snaw-Na- Was First Nations.
Connie is grateful for her 25+ years of experience as an educator in the K-12 system, Band-operated schools and public post-secondary education. She holds a master’s degree in educational administration and leadership from the University of British Columbia, which focused on Indigenization and the decolonization of education.
The desire to bring forward an understanding of Indigenous ways of being is based on her lived experiences within a colonial system that has a history of misunderstanding Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Her connection to the land and her community reflects her worldview and her understanding of education, law, governance, relations, and protocols.
She believes reconciliation is a process of naturalizing Indigenous Knowledge Systems and making them evident to transform spaces, places, and hearts. In the context of post-secondary education, this involves bringing Indigenous Knowledges and approaches together with western knowledge systems.
Robyn Grebliunas
Robyn is both Métis and Lithuanian. She was raised as a guest on the unceded and traditional territories Nlaka’pamux and Syilx Nations and lives, works, and plays on the unceded lands of the Okanagan and Syilx Nations.
Robyn is grateful for over 25 years working in public and private Indigenous post-secondary education. She has a master’s degree in professional communication from Royal Roads University. Her research focused on creating communication efficacy and success in professional relationships in the digital realm.
Robyn is excited that she has been able to use this research, along with her extensive teaching experience, in creating success in online and blended education. Robyn carries an educational philosophy combining traditional grassroots learning with a belief in two-way learning where the teacher is also a learner, and the learner is also a teacher.
Robyn believes planting a seed of knowledge in one mind can create generational change, and planting seeds of knowledge in many minds can have a global impact.
Robyn has had the honour of working under the teachings of many Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, and in many First Nations communities in B.C. and Alberta; this opportunity has greatly influenced her approach to education.
About the Session:
This event in the OER Production Series is part two of our exploration of accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in open educational resources (OER). In this session, we build on what we know about technical accessibility to explore how to go beyond minimum accessibility requirements. We dig into concepts like the social model of disability and how UDL can be applied in the design of OER. We explore multimodality as well as the benefits, challenges, and considerations of digital versus print formats. The session will include concrete examples and opportunities to apply learning.
To view the other events in this series, visit OER Production Series.
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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 Facilitator:
Harper Friedman (he/him) is a coordinator of Open Textbook Publishing at BCcampus, helping to create OER, primarily in Pressbooks. As part of his work, Harper has been learning and teaching about accessibility best practices in OER and making educational resources more accessible for a greater variety of students.
Session Description:
Join us for a short drop-in session to explore how alternative format textbooks and course materials are provided to students. You will also gain valuable tips on how to improve the accessibility of your classroom materials.
Agenda:
- Introduction to the Accessible British Columbia Act and how course materials are addressed in the education standards from other jurisdictions
- Presentation on the accessibility features of alternative format course materials
- Examples of common accessibility issues in course materials and how they cause problems for assistive technologies
- Question and answer period.
To view the other events in this series, visit Accessibility Bites. To access resources and watch previous Accessibility Bites webinars, visit media.bccampus.ca.
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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 Facilitator
Your Facilitator for this session will be Jennifer Weldon.
Jennifer (she/her) is the accessibility librarian at the Centre for Accessible Post-secondary Education Resources BC (CAPER-BC). CAPER-BC provides accessible learning and teaching materials to students and instructors at post-secondary institutions in B.C. who cannot use conventional print because of disabilities. Jennifer is responsible for outreach activities, providing accessibility training to faculty at post-secondary institutions, and for overseeing special projects.
About the Session
Educators have described their classes and institutions as “safe spaces” with increasing frequency and certainty since the 1990s. This certainty, implying that a safe space is somehow better for learning outcomes, has been widely adopted with little critical consideration of what it truly means and what is expected when an educational space is labeled “safe”.
Join this free one-hour Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) discussion, exploring “safe space” as an educational metaphor unconsciously communicating both explicit and implicit expectations about the nature of teaching and learning relationships.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Recognize “safe space” as an educational metaphor
- Explain their obligations to others when they welcome them to a safe space
- Identify the implicit promises others make when a place or situation is labeled a safe space
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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 Facilitator
Bhuvinder Singh Vaid (he/him/his) is a philosopher of education and an educational developer at the Centre for Teaching Excellence 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 most recently, how to pedagogically engage with Coast Salish canoe stories. You can reach him at bhuvindervaid@capilanou.ca.
About the Series:
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series, workshops empowering educators, learning designers, and graduate students in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore, experiment with, and evaluate cutting-edge tools for enhancing teaching excellence and student success. Aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework, this program emphasizes a support technology perspective, encouraging open-mindedness, curiosity, troubleshooting skills, and the selection of appropriate tools for work and study.
To see all events in the series, including past events, please visit EdTech Sandbox Series.
Focus Areas for 2024-2025:
- The AI Sandbox: A space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning technologies.
- The No-Go EdTech Sandbox: A space aimed at examining learning technologies educators, students, and staff should avoid using in teaching and learning, and why.
In these two-hour live streamed webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools.
By actively participating in these sandbox sessions, 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.
Recordings of the presentations and reviews of the tools will be available on our website following the event.
About the Session:
Are you an educator seeking a supportive space to critically examine AI surveillance tools? This workshop is for you.
In an era where AI increasingly pervades education, AI detection and proctoring have sparked significant controversy. These tools, categorized as academic surveillance software, algorithmically monitor behaviour and movements. Students are increasingly forced to face them. Together, we will move beyond surveillance toward a culture of trust and transparency, shining a light on the black box of surveillance and discussing our findings.
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore AI detection and proctoring through a 40-minute presentation, an hour of activities and discussion, and 20 minutes of group tool evaluation using a rubric.
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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 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.
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)