Meet the FLO Facilitators

Olaolu Adeleye has a passion for social development issues seen through the application of an intercultural lens which is informed by his studies in international development and experiences with various global organizations. These include the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Right to Play, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and UNICEF Peru. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Development from Dalhousie University (2008) and a Master of Science in Poverty Reduction: Policy and Practice from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (2013).

Find Olaolu on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Learn more about Olaolu in this blog post.

Terri Bateman is the Distributed Learning Facilitator in the Centre for Teaching Learning and Innovation at North Island College. She is the Former chair of EdTech Users Group (ETUG) in B.C. Terri has a Master’s Degree in Educational Technology from UBC and a background in Instructional Design. Apart from facilitating the design of great online courses, her other interests include Universal Design for Learning and Liberating Structures. 

Learn more about Terri’s FLO Bootcamp Experience or in this blog post.

Jamie (she/her/hers) is a learning designer and consultant who has been active in the online learning design and facilitation field for almost two decades, beginning with an early foray into Moodle in 2004 and more recently dipping into designing learning experiences for virtual reality. Jamie has adapted the FLO course for non-profit housing providers and has facilitated FLO MicroCourses that focus on the production and use of video in teaching and learning.

Find Jamie on Twitter or at jamiebillingham.com.

Learn more about Jamie in this blog post.

Beth Cougler Blom is an independent facilitator and learning designer who works with client organizations across all sectors to help them design and facilitate effective learning experiences. Beth has been heavily involved in designing and facilitating FLO courses since 2013. She is the author of the new book, Design to Engage: How to Create and Facilitate a Great Learning Experience for Any Group.

Beth can be reached at bethcouglerblom.com.

Learn more about Beth in this blog post.

Alena Buis is an Instructor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Religious Studies at snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓-Langara College in Vancouver British Columbia. She has an MA in Canadian Art History from Concordia University (Montreal) and a PhD in Visual and Material Culture from Queen’s University (Kingston).

Find Alena on Twitter.

Learn more about Alena in this blog post.

Val has worked in the field of education for over two decades. She has extensive experience working with post-secondary institutions and community organizations across cultures. Through course design and facilitation, she has helped thousands of people learn from each other and feel empowered to take action to enhance their organizations and communities.

You can find Valeria on Twitter and Instagram.

Learn more about Valeria in this blog post.

When Donna was doing freelance learning design in 2015, she participated in the BCcampus FLO Fundamentals course both to keep her facilitation skills in tune and connect with a dynamic community of practice. Donna had a such a good learning experience that she also took the FLO Facilitator Development, FLO-Synchronous, and the FLO-Design pilot courses. Since then, she has co-facilitated several FLO Fundamentals courses at Royal Roads University. Donna has also co-designed and co-facilitated a couple of FLO MicroCourses.

Find Donna by email at donna [dot] desbiens [at] royalroads [dot] ca or through the RRU Diversity Action Group.

Learn more about Donna in this blog post.

Taruna Goel

Taruna Goel is a learning and development professional with over 23 years of experience in adult education, workplace training, and performance improvement. She has designed custom learning experiences (classroom/e-learning/blended courses) for Fortune 500 companies, government organizations, and industry associations in Canada and abroad.

She currently works with North Pacific in Vancouver, B.C., where she leads the design and development of competency-based occupational standards and training, certification and assessment frameworks, and recognition of prior learning programs for the workplace. 

Taruna is a lifelong learner and believes the teacher and learner reside within each of us. She likes to “engineer for serendipity” by staying curious and being an active participant in life.

Find Taruna on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Learn more about Taruna in this blog post.

Leva is part of the Learning + Teaching team at BCcampus. She started as a student of FLO Fundamentals and the FLO Facilitator Development courses and later as a course reviewer for the FLO Design pilot. In the last two years, Leva has co-facilitated the FLO MicroCourse on Liberating Structures with Beth Cougler Blom. This offering posed an interesting design challenge for them to create a way these facilitation techniques, used primarily for face-to-face engagement, could be learned and experienced in an online and asynchronous learning space.

Find Leva at leva [dot] lee [at] bccampus [dot] ca.

Learn more about Leva in this blog post.

Ross is BCcampus’ Open Education Advisor, Regional Representative, Interior and a FLO Facilitator.

Ross started the FLO experience as a learner, taking all the courses over a period of about a year. He then had the opportunity to co-facilitate FLO Synchronous in October 2017, and knew he was hooked. He loved it so much, he co-facilitated FDO and FLO Fundamentals and continued to build on previous FLO experiences.

Find Ross on LinkedIn or email rmckerlich [at] BCcampus [dot] ca.

Learn more about Ross in this blog post.

Enthusiasm for empowering others through dynamic educational experiences is what Monica Morris brings to her professional roles. As an experienced educator, facilitator, and leader, Monica thrives in working with organizations that recognize the strategic influence learning has on the overall success of its most valuable resources — its people! 

Learn more about Monica in this blog post.

Nicki Rehn

Nicki Rehn is an Australian Canadian based in Calgary, Alberta. She started out her career as a K–12 teacher and then administrator, moved into instructional design and faculty support roles, held an assistant professor position for four years at Ambrose University, was the Dean of Teaching and Learning at Coast Mountain College, and now consults independently. Nicki loves leading workshops, facilitating program review and redesign, and thinking about how to innovate higher education. When she is not working, she runs ultramarathons, summits peaks in the Rockies, creates mountain adventures, and travels (especially now that we can again). When Nicki forces herself to sit still, she maintains a writing practice. 

Sylvia has been a freelance educational developer for more than 25 years in B.C./Yukon and was an EdTech instructor at Yukon College for many years. Sylvia has completed the Master of Educational Technology (MET) from UBC while working for Yukon College and have facilitated learning online and in blended modes since 2000 for a range of higher education and not-for-profit groups. Her focus for the last few years has been on mentoring or co-facilitating with instructors who want to develop their online teaching confidence and skills.

Learn more about Sylvia in this blog post.

Annie was a founding faculty member at Quest University Canada, where she collaborated with a handful of academics to develop the bachelor of arts and sciences that has topped the rankings of the National Survey of Student Engagement since its inception. She developed a National Science Foundation–funded project to train faculty across the United States in flipping their classroom and coordinated the development of open educational resources to teach first-year biology in a flipped format. Her efforts were recognized with the Four-Year College Teaching Innovation Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers.

Learn more about Annie in this blog post.

María del Carmen Rodríguez de France was born and raised in Monterrey, México, where she loved living and learning as a teacher for 15 years. Since 1996, Carmen acknowledges the privilege and responsibility of living on the land of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation, and the Lekwungen, and SENCOTEN speaking people. Carmen is currently a faculty member in the Department of Indigenous Education at the  University of Victoria where she facilitate courses on Indigenous pedagogy and education, as well as on Social Justice. Her most recent research projects focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning, as well as on the exploration of reconciliation through the Arts. 

Learn more about Carmen in this blog post.