Working Together, Learning Together 

"The complexity of Indigenization is realizing that there are multiple truths and no single clear answer; so as educators, we need to trust the unlearning and relearning process and be humble while engaging in the process."

- Pulling Together: A Guide for Teachers and Instructors

Learn more: Indigenization Guide: Holding Space and Humility for Other Ways of Knowing and Being

Learning Opportunities 

📅 Open Education Week 

March 6-10, 2023 | Various 

We're halfway through Open Education Week and there is still plenty of time to participate! 

Many post-secondary institutions across B.C. have organized events, workshops and webinars to share the latest data, research and trends in open education. 

BCcampus has compiled these events in one easy spot. Browse the far-reaching open education topics below! 

Learn more: Open Education Week

📅 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

📅 Finding the Free Path: Making Zero-Textbook-Cost Courses Visible

March 10, 2023 | 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 

Our panel of speakers will describe how they made Zero-Texbook-Cost (ZTC) course information visible and discoverable at their institutions and how highlighting or marking ZTC courses allowed students to make informed decisions regarding the cost of their course materials. You'll walk away learning how you can help students find the free path. 

Learn more: Finding the Free Path: Making Zero-Textbook-Cost Courses Visible

📅 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. 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

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

Recommended Reading 

📘 Bringing the Practice of Positionality into Teaching and Learning

Creating a positionality statement, whether on your own, with colleagues, or in your learning space, is an enriching way to explore not only who you are but also how your identities impact your worldview. 

Learn more: Bringing the Practice of Positionality into Teaching and Learning

📘 Indigenization Guide: Holding Space and Humility for Other Ways of Knowing and Being

As educators begin to collaborate and build spaces for decolonizing and Indigenizing content, practice, and perspectives, an important core competency is humility. Learn more about the ways that you can bring humility into your practice. 

Learn more: Indigenization Guide: Holding Space and Humility for Other Ways of Knowing and Being

Check out the latest news from BCcampus on our blog. 

Accepting Applications

💻 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

💻 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.

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.