Working Together, Learning Together 

"Expanding equity is key to solving the biggest challenges facing us today, because it is only then that we will all thrive as humankind.” 

– Harshita Sandhu, strategy, policy, and program analyst, Tidal Equality

Learn more: The Gift We Give One Another: A Collection of Anti-Racism and Anti-Hate Resources

Learning Opportunities 

📅 OER Production Series

May 17, 26, and 31, 2023 | 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Throughout the month of May, we'll be exploring open educational resources (OER) themes for beginners and experts alike!

Choose from our weekly webinars where we'll learn everything related to OER production - from fundamentals and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, to Pressbooks and Universal Design for Learning. 

Missed a session? Recordings are available! 

Learn more: OER Production Series

📅 FLO Panel: Artificial Intelligence in Post-Secondary Education, a B.C. Perspective

May 23, 2023 | 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most powerful agents of change in higher education. It presents all educators in B.C. with myriad of opportunities as well as academic, ethical, and legal challenges. BCcampus would like to offer a space for a vibrant conversation with diverse scholars from B.C. post-secondary institutions about how AI is inextricably intertwined with the future of education.

Learn more: FLO Panel: Artificial Intelligence in Post-Secondary Education, a B.C. Perspective

📅 FLO Friday: Teaching and learning with ChatGPT: Navigating the Landscape

May 26, 2023 | 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Embark on a lively journey through the maze of ChatGPT in this interactive virtual session. As powerful AI technologies advance, it’s important for educators, learning designers, and stakeholders to critically examine their potential in shaping the future of education and the concerns inherent in their use. In this session we’ll look at how ChatGPT can increase student engagement and transform learning experiences, and we’ll examine ethical concerns like bias, privacy, and copyright.

Learn more: FLO Friday: Teaching and learning with ChatGPT: Navigating the Landscape

📅 ETUG Spring Workshop – Future-proof Learning Design: The Integration of Digital Literacy, Inclusive Tech, and AI

June 1-2, 2023 | Online and in-person

This two-day workshop will provide you with valuable insights on designing learning experiences that are future-proof, leaving you with the skills to adapt to the changing needs of learners and the advancements in technology. Not only will you learn about the latest trends in digital literacy, inclusive technology, and AI, but you will also learn how to integrate them into your learning design. 

Learn more: Future-proof Learning Design: The Integration of Digital Literacy, Inclusive Tech, and AI

📅  FLO MicroCourse: Create Course Community

June 12, 2023 – June 16, 2023 | Asynchronous 

The way you design the beginning of your course lays the groundwork for successful collaborative learning experiences. In this MicroCourse you will create an activity to help participants become acquainted and feel motivated to learn together, and then invite others to do the community-building activity.

Learn more: FLO MicroCourse: Create Course Community

A complete list of our upcoming events, archives, and resources are available on our website. 

Recommended Reading 

📘 The Gift We Give One Another: A Collection of Anti-Racism and Anti-Hate Resources

In collaboration with B.C.’s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, BCcampus worked alongside a diverse group of racialized and Indigenous experts to develop The Gift We Give One Another: A Collection of Anti-Racism and Anti-Hate Resources. 

As a part of this work, BCcampus offers free access to Equity Sequence training to anyone in the public B.C. post-secondary sector. 

The  Equity Sequence training takes place in an online, gamified learning platform and community. The learner encounters informative video content, engages in self-reflection and sharing with the community, and puts their new skill to use on case studies before applying the Equity Sequence to their own work.

Learn more: The Gift We Give One Another: A Collection of Anti-Racism and Anti-Hate Resources

📘 Safer Campuses for Everyone

We recently updated our Safer Campuses for Everyone project page to include an option to preview the student and staff & faculty versions of this training. The Safer Campuses for Everyone training is a great option for post-secondary institutions that want to offer sexualized violence training asynchronously. 

Learn more: Safer Campuses for Everyone

📘 Open Pedagogy in the Trades: Instructional Resource

In this excerpt from the Open Pedagogy in the Trades: Instructional Resource, we explore how open pedagogy empowers learners through autonomy, responsibility, and contribution.

Learn more: Open Pedagogy in the Trades: Instructional Resource

Check out the latest news from BCcampus on our blog. 

Open Education Updates

May Day marks the beginning of summer. For open education, the month of May is blooming with resources.

New to the B.C. Open Collection are two ABE course packs (Intermediate General and Applied Science and Provincial Biology), a genetics open textbooks from TRU (Introduction to Genetics), and the long-anticipated Introduction to Criminology.

The OER by Discipline Directory continues to expand its many subject areas with just-added open textbooks ranging from anthropology to nursing and plant breeding, to economics and music.

Finally, for those interested in how to improve OER with accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion in mind, see the latest from ISKME, Rebus and the ROTEL project.

Learn more about Open Education Updates for May 2023

See OpenEd updates for a complete list of what's happening at BCcampus.

Accepting Applications

💻 Call for Proposals: Open Textbook Adaptation

BCcampus has two call for proposals where the successful project teams will adapt two open textbooks to update and revise the content to be more equitable and inclusive. 

Learn more: Call for Proposals: Open Textbook Adaptation – Introduction to Sociology and Call for Proposals: Open Textbook Adaptation – Introduction to Psychology

💻 Call for Proposals: Professional Learning in the Early Childhood Sector in B.C.

BCcampus is seeking experts in early childhood education and curriculum development to submit proposals and help develop professional learning for ECEs across the province.

Successful applicants will be offered contracts valued at up to $100,000 for their work. Payment will be tied to deliverables based on the service contract.

Learn more: Call for Proposals: Professional Learning in the Early Childhood Sector in B.C.

BCcampus acknowledges the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) Peoples and the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations of the lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) Peoples on whose traditional territories we are privileged to live, work, and learn. Through our work we are learning to incorporate Indigenous epistemologies into our actions and understandings, supporting decolonization, reconciliation, and Indigenization to advocate systemic changes in the post-secondary environment of B.C.