Learning Opportunities 

📅 Micro-credential Toolkit Story Spotlight: Design

February 8, 2024 | 12 - 1 p.m. 

Join us as we dig into the design section of the BCcampus Micro-credential Toolkit for B.C. Facilitated by story contributor Zoë MacLeod from Royal Roads University, this webinar will explore designing micro-credentials. Zoë will discuss using competency frameworks, using existing content, and assessing knowledge, skills, and attributes in micro-credential design. Bring your thoughts and questions.

Learn more: Micro-credential Toolkit Story Spotlight: Design

📅 2023 Pan-Canadian Report on Digital Learning Trends in Canadian Post-Secondary Education

February 13, 2024 | 10 - 11 a.m. 

Join Amanda Coolidge, executive director at BCcampus, and Dr. Nicole Johnson, executive director at Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA), as they dive deep into the details of the 2023 Pan-Canadian Report on Digital Learning Trends in Canadian Post-Secondary Education and how the findings from the report impact the B.C. post-secondary sector.

Learn more: 2023 Pan-Canadian Report on Digital Learning Trends in Canadian Post-Secondary Education

📅 FLO EdTech Sandbox Series – H5P

February 14, 2024 | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. 

In these two-hour webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free or low-cost educational technology tools, allowing you to experiment and gather exciting ideas for teaching activities. Our mission is to foster digital teaching innovation, encouraging faculty and staff to embrace emerging technologies with curiosity and openness, ultimately enhancing the learning experience for all.

Our February session features John Cheng, where he will explain H5P and how it can be used in teaching and learning. 

Learn more: FLO EdTech Sandbox Series – H5P

📅 FLO MicroCourse: Write a Compelling Discussion Prompt

February 26 – March 3, 2024 | Asynchronous 

Spruce up your discussion forums and make them enticing for your students! Join our upcoming FLO MicroCourse to discover effective strategies for engaging discussions, collaborative formats, and unforgettable learning experiences.

Learn more: FLO MicroCourse: Write a Compelling Discussion Prompt

📅 Research Speaker Series – Digital Arts-Based Research in Education

February 27, 2024 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. 

In this session, facilitator Rachel Horst will share tools and technologies for any researcher interested in how digital media have become part of existence, creative expression, and meaning-making. This presentation will examine how digital arts and aesthetics can be used at all stages of research and representation. Participants will take up digital arts-based approaches through a post-humanist and new materialist framework to understand creativity, relationality, and our post-digital experience in troubled times. They will also be introduced to how digital arts-based tools and new media aesthetics can deepen and extend your research inquiries.

Learn more: Research Speaker Series – Digital Arts-Based Research in Education

📅 Accessibility Bites: Word Documents

February 29, 2024 | 12 - 12:30 p.m. 

You often hear others talk about accessibility, but you’re not quite sure how to put it into practice (or maybe you just haven’t had a chance). These Accessibility Bites sessions are for you! In last session of the series, we will focus on Microsoft Word, but you can bring a Google Doc or web page too. 

Learn more: Accessibility Bites: Word Documents

📅 FLO Friday: Learning Relationships with Community in the Online Context

March 1, 2024 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. 

Through this session, we will explore models for, and examples of, reciprocal and meaningful community-engaged learning. We will review how the seamless integration of community projects and relationships into online course curricula can be accomplished when learners apply their digital skills in meaningful, community-focused projects while respecting the needs and desires of community.

Learn more: FLO Friday: Learning Relationships with Community in the Online Context

📅 FLO MicroCourse: An Introduction to the B.C. Digital Literacy Framework

March 4-8, 2024 | Asynchronous 

The B.C. Digital Literacy Framework, part of the B.C. Digital Learning Strategy, was created to develop digital literacy in post-secondary settings. This one-week FLO MicroCourse is tailored for educators keen on integrating the framework into their teaching. The course covers eight thematic competencies and offers self-paced content along with two one-hour synchronous sessions.

Learn more: FLO MicroCourse: An Introduction to the B.C. Digital Literacy Framework

📅 ETUG Spring 2024 Workshop – Digital Literacy Today: Celebrating 30 Years of Educational Transformation

May 9-10, 2024 | Vancouver, B.C.  

Save the date! Join us this May as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of ETUG at their spring workshop. We'll delve into the interplay between our educational ecosystem and the diverse technologies propelling change. Our focus will centre on practical issues, innovative solutions, and the real challenges posed by technology in post-secondary education.

The event will take place May 9-10 with in-person sessions hosted at Simon Fraser University’s Segal Building in Vancouver, B.C., complemented by a livestream option. A social mixer will be held on the evening of May 8 at Butcher & Block.

Learn more: ETUG Spring 2024 Workshop – Digital Literacy Today: Celebrating 30 Years of Educational Transformation

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

Recommended Reading 

📘 Looking to the Horizon: Emerging Trends in Post-Secondary Education

In this blog post, BCcampus executive director, Amanda Coolidge, explores the shifting landscape of post-secondary education in British Columbia with her analysis of emerging trends, covering topics from tuition fees to climate action and student well-being. 

Learn more: Looking to the Horizon: Emerging Trends in Post-Secondary Education

📘 Digital Sticky Notes to Increase Student Engagement

 Discover the power of sticky notes for educators!

In his blog post, John Churchley shares the advantages of using sticky notes and offers dozens of online learning activities educators can use to encourage participation and increase engagement.

Learn more: Digital Sticky Notes to Increase Student Engagement

📘 Farewell B.C. Open Textbook Collection: A tribute to the modest library that spurred open education in B.C. 

February 1, 2024 marked the end of an era; the B.C. Open Textbook Collection was retired and permanently replaced by the B.C. Open Collection. 

Learn more: Farewell B.C. Open Textbook Collection: A tribute to the modest library that spurred open education in B.C. 

Check out the latest news from BCcampus on our blog. 

Seeking Submissions

💻 Call for Expressions of Interest: Online Learning Designers and Facilitators

BCcampus is inviting expressions of interest from B.C. post-secondary educators who are interested in developing and delivering new FLO MicroCourses, FLO Labs, or FLO Friday sessions for the period of May 2024 to March 2025. We are specifically interested in topics related to practices and integration of the eight competencies of the Digital Literacy Framework of B.C.

This opportunity closed on March 29, 2024. 

Learn more: Call for Expressions of Interest: Online Learning Designers and Facilitators

💻 Call for Proposals: ETUG Spring 2024 Workshop – Digital Literacy Today: Celebrating 30 Years of Educational Transformation

ETUG is accepting proposals for event presenters for their upcoming spring workshop on May 9-10, 2024. 

Proposals should aim to address one or more of the following questions:

• What trends in student demographics and expectations are you observing? How do these trends inform, or relate to, changes in educational technology?
• What expectations are there in terms of technology use in the workplace? How are these expectations informing program content and delivery?
• How are institutions supporting the delivery of online, hybrid, and in-person classes?
• How do you accommodate different learning styles and abilities when integrating digital literacy into your lessons? 
• Are there specific strategies you use to ensure inclusivity in digital literacy education?
• How do you share successful practices and lessons learned with your colleagues?
• What challenges do you face in incorporating digital literacy into your teaching?
• How do you overcome these challenges, and are there any innovative solutions you have implemented?

The deadline to submit is March 29, 2024. 

Submit here: Call for Proposals: ETUG Spring 2024 Workshop – Digital Literacy Today: Celebrating 30 Years of Educational Transformation

💻 Call for Proposals: OTESSA Conference 2024

Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) conference will be held this June, with online and in-person options. They are currently seeking presenters and encourages researchers and practitioners to share their scholarship on the complexities that technology and/or open practice raise for education, society, and scholarship. 

The deadline to submit is February 15, 2024. 

Learn more: Call for Proposals: OTESSA Conference 2024

💻 Equity Sequence: Building Equality Better 

In partnership with the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, BCcampus is offering free access to Equity Sequence training to anyone in the public B.C. post-secondary sector. Space is limited and provided on a first-come, first-served basis. 

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: Equity Sequence: Building Equality Better

💻 Evaluate OER Under Consideration

BCcampus maintains a list of open educational resources (OER) we are considering for the B.C. Open Collection. We want to ensure the OER we add to the collection are high quality and relevant for people who teach post-secondary classes in Canada. We are looking for subject-matter experts from Canada to evaluate open textbooks we are considering for the B.C. Open Collection.

Learn more: Evaluate OER Under Consideration

BCcampus offices are situated on the unceded territories of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich), and the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) Peoples. As both individuals and an organization, we continue to learn and build relationships as we actively respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.