Working Together, Learning Together 

"...when you create or design learning spaces, start incorporating digital well-being in all programs and lessons alongside other learning goals because only through comprehensive daily practice do students learn to be more digitally aware and healthy, allowing them to flourish in their work and study successfully." 

- Gwen Nguyen, advisor, Learning and Teaching, at BCcampus 

Learn more: Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Cultivating Digital Well-Being as a Social Practice with the PERMA Framework 

Learning Opportunities 

📅 BCcampus Online Book Club: A Conversation with Parm Gill and Dave Smulders

March 28, 2023 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Parm Gill and Dave Smulders are the guest speakers for the March 2023 BCcampus Online Book Club – The Open Edition, where we will discuss selected readings from Designing for Care.

Join us! You do not need to be a member of the book club to attend this session. 

Learn more: BCcampus Online Book Club: A Conversation with Parm Gill and Dave Smulders

📅 BCNET CONNECT Summit

April 25-27, 2023 | Multi-Day Event

The BCNET CONNECT Summit showcases new ways of thinking and innovative solutions in higher education IT! The premier event is an opportunity to celebrate our achievements and to explore innovative ideas for solving higher education's  technology challenges of today and tomorrow. Join the higher ed tech community on April 25–27, 2023, for an in-person, 2.5-day technology summit at the Sheraton Wall Centre in beautiful, downtown Vancouver.

Learn more: BCNET CONNECT Summit

📅 OER Production Series

May 3, 10, 17, 23, and 31 | 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 to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and Pressbooks to Universal Design for Learning, 

Learn more: OER Production Series

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

Recommended Reading 

📘 Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Cultivating Digital Well-Being as a Social Practice with the PERMA Framework  

In this seventh post in the Digital Pedagogy Toolbox blog series, Gwen Nguyen discusses the dimensions of digital well-being and suggests how educators should cultivate it into teaching as a social practice with the PERMA framework to support students’ positive agency and global digital citizenship skills.  

Learn more: Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Cultivating Digital Well-Being as a Social Practice with the PERMA Framework

Check out the latest news from BCcampus on our blog. 

Open Education Updates 

Our OER Production team continues to post completed, BCcampus-funded works in the B.C. Open Collection such as the Fundamentals of Nursing Pharmacology: A Conceptual Approach - 1st Canadian Edition and Technical Writing Essentials - H5P Edition.

Soon, the newly released Canadian-focussed open textbook Introduction to Criminology will also be added to the B.C. Open Collection. See this JIBC blog for more on that project. For faculty who elect to use this book in the classroom, please let us know via the adoption form.

For those who have been following the news about ChatGPT, Chat GPT and Open Education will interest you if you've been wondering how generative AI overlaps with open education.

Learn more: Open Education Updates for March 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

💻 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

💻 Expression of Interest: Curriculum Writers

In partnership with Women and Gender Equality Canada and the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, BCcampus is providing project management on the Intersectional Sexualized Violence Project, which focuses on the impacts of sexualized violence on specific student populations, including Indigenous, international, and graduate students.

The next phase will focus on the adaptation or development of sexualized violence training resources based on the findings of the environmental scans. BCcampus is seeking qualified individuals to work with us and the Intersectional Sexualized Violence Advisory Group on the development and/or adoption of openly licenced sexualized violence training resources and facilitation guides.

Learn more: Expression of Interest: Curriculum Writers

💻 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.

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.