Working Together, Learning Together 

"Nevertheless, let’s remember how the calculator came to math class in the nineteenth century or when the printing press was invented in the fifteen century. Could we ban or ignore those tools?" 

— Gwen Nguyen, advisor, Learning and Teaching, BCcampus

Learn more: Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Let’s Make Friends with ChatGPT

Learning Opportunities 

📅 FLO Friday: Assessment Strategies for Linguistic Justice

February 24, 2023 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

In the past two years, linguistic justice, or the decolonization of language, has emerged as an important dimension for equity and inclusion. In this workshop, our facilitators will use context-specific examples to introduce assessment strategies for linguistic justice. Participants will engage in mini-activities to develop an understanding of linguistic justice concepts and macro-level strategies useful for planning assessment practices.

Learn more: FLO Friday: Assessment Strategies for Linguistic Justice

📅 FLO Panel: Educative Approaches to Academic Integrity 

March 1, 2023 | 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Academic integrity at post-secondary institutions has received much attention with pandemic-related adaptations to teaching and learning practices. Representing multiple disciplinary spaces and institutional roles, this panel discussion will use an educative approach as a lens to share viewpoints on some developments, comment on current circumstances, and articulate future directions

Learn more: FLO Panel: Educative Approaches to Academic Integrity

📅 FLO Friday: Digital Well-Being: PERMA 2.0 and More

March 3, 2023 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Let's explore the topic of digital well-being in higher education and what it means to become more digitally aware and digitally healthy.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to develop your understanding of the meaning and dimensions of digital well-being, explore and reflect on some digital tools and the PERMA model in promoting well-being in online teaching, and identify some techniques to integrate digital wellness into your teaching and learning discussions.

Learn more: FLO Friday: Digital Well-Being: PERMA 2.0 and More

📅 FLO MicroCourse: Current Topics in Micro-Credentials 2.0

March 6-10, 2023 | Asynchronous 

Let's dig deeper into the micro-credential topics that are in the forefront of practice in B.C. By the end of this one-week learning experience, you will be able to describe in your own words at least one current topic in micro-credentials and apply what you have learned to your local context. 

Learn more: FLO MicroCourse: Current Topics in Micro-Credentials 2.0

📅 Open Education Week 

March 6-10, 2023 | Various 

Open Education Week was launched in 2012 by Open Education Global as a collaborative, community-built open forum. Every year OE Week raises awareness and highlights innovative open education successes worldwide. Check out upcoming OE Week events throughout our B.C. post-secondary institutions. 

Learn more: Open Education Week

📅 BCcampus Online Book Club: The Open Edition

March 6-31, 2023 | Asynchronous

The BCcampus Online Book Club started as a community-driven project by a group of volunteer post-secondary educators interested in opportunities to connect with colleagues on topics of professional interest in teaching and learning.  The guidelines for this book club are that it is open, informal, and fun — an easy way for participants to share ideas and strategies and take what we learn to practice. 

Our final book for the month of March includes selected readings from Designing for Care. 

Can't make it but want to participate? We're hosting one-hour synchronous sessions about each book every month.  

Learn more: BCcampus Online Book Club: The Open Edition

📅 Research Speaker Series: Inclusive and Accessible Research

March 9, 2023 | 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. 

This workshop will identify and address barriers to accessibility and inclusion in research, such as unconscious bias, lack of representation, and inaccessible research methods. The goal is to give you strategies, tools, and resources to create inclusive, equitable, and respectful research for all participants.  

Learn more: Research Speaker Series: Inclusive and Accessible Research

Archives of the series can also be found here.

📅 Introducing B.C.’s Micro-Credential Toolkit

March 15, 2023 | 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Adapted from eCampusOntario, this new micro-credential toolkit is made for B.C. and explores micro-credentials from our very own regional perspective. Join us in celebrating the launch of this valuable new tool! You will leave with skills to design, develop, and implement micro-credentials at your institution.

Learn more: Introducing B.C.’s Micro-Credential Toolkit

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

Recommended Reading 

📘 Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Let’s Make Friends with ChatGP

In this sixth post in our Digital Pedagogy Toolbox blog series, Gwen Nguyen looks at some of the potential benefits of incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) tools into the classroom.

Learn more: Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Let’s Make Friends with ChatGPT

📘 I Can DARE

Student Research Fellow Kim Ashbourne hopes that in sharing her experiences alongside her research, she will paint memorable narratives related to digital accessibility–informed academic praxis.

Learn more: I Can DARE

Check out the latest news from BCcampus on our blog. 

Open Education Updates

The OER Production team at BCcampus has been working at a feverish pitch preparing grant-funded materials for the B.C. Open Collection. This month alone they posted two open textbooks (Principles of Marketing - H5P Edition and Book 2 of the ALF Math series, now in Pressbooks) and three open course packs (Environmental Geology, Introduction to Innovation, Psychology of Language.)

Other completed BCcampus-funded projects include Nursing Virtual Case Studies and Introduction to Criminology.

Lockstep with production are Equity Review calls looking to improve two highly-used open textbooks in the B.C. collection by examining them for issues regarding equity, diversity, and inclusion. These reviews will inform and guide the adaptation projects that will follow.

Learn more about Open Education Updates for February 2023

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

Accepting Applications

💻 Digital Literacy Project: Call for Open Content

BCcampus is seeking content submissions for the collection that fulfill the requirements of the eight areas of digital literacy thematic competencies identified in the ministry's Digital Learning Strategy: ethical and legal consideration, technology supports, information literacy, digital scholarship, communication and collaboration, creation and curation, digital well-being, and community-based learning.

Learn more: Digital Literacy Project: Call for Open Content

💻 Equity Review for Open Textbooks

BCcampus is seeking sociology and psychology instructors employed at post-secondary institutions in B.C. or the Yukon to perform equity reviews on sociology and psychology open textbooks. 

Each reviewer will receive $500 on submission and approval of the written review. Funds are available for two reviewers for each open textbook. 

Learn more: Equity Review for Introduction to Sociology Open Textbook and Equity Review for Introduction to Psychology Open Textbook

💻 ETUG Spring Workshop Presenters

ETUG - the Educational Technology Users Group - is seeking presenters for their upcoming spring workshop held on June 1 and 2, 2023, at Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Richmond Campus. This year's theme is Futureproof Learning Design: The Integration of Digital Literacy, Inclusive Tech, and AI. 

In this two-day workshop, ETUG will showcase how instructors, education developers, and education technologists are approaching design. If you're interested in presenting on the topics of digital literacy, inclusive technology, and artificial intelligence, please submit your proposal by Saturday, April 1, 2023. 

Presentations will be given in-person at KPU Richmond. 

Learn more: Call for Proposals: Futureproof Learning Design: The Integration of Digital Literacy, Inclusive Tech, and AI

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

💻 Multimedia Anti-Oppression Ally Toolkit

The Decolonizing Together Team is pleased to invite contributions to our forthcoming Multimedia Ally Toolkit. Hosted on the Decolonizing Teaching Indigenizing Learning website, this Open Educational Resource toolkit will feature text-based, podcast and video content to bring to light the perspectives and experiences of racialized and marginalized people previously absent in teacher education programming. 

UBC aims to cultivate a diverse community to create and sustain equitable, inclusive campuses and teacher education experiences. Topics addressed in this toolkit may include, anti-racism, anti-oppression, anti-ableism, sexuality and gender discrimination, inclusive learning practice, and settler of colour experiences. 
Our goal is to provide in-service and pre-service teachers with practical and applicable approaches to addressing this content in their teaching, or for facing challenges related to these issues as they arise in day-to-day practice. 

Interested contributors are asked to send a brief proposal (maximum 300 words) to the team by March 1, 2023.   

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: UBC Call for Content Multimedia Anti-Oppression Ally Toolkit

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.