BCcampus News for the week of January 12, 2023
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Working Together, Learning Together
"Teaching and learning is all about walking alongside each other with an honest and open heart."
Learning Opportunities
📅 BCcampus Online Book Club: The Open Edition
January, February, and March, 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 upcoming reading and authors are as follows:
- February 6 – March 3: Teaching in a Digital Age by Dr. Tony Bates
- March 6 – March 31: Selected readings from Designing for Care
Don't forget to check back, registration re-opens next week for both of these sessions!
Learn more: BCcampus Online Book Club: The Open Edition
📅 FLO MicroCourse: Developing a Personal Learning Network
January 16 - 22, 2023 | Asynchronous
Join us for a brand-new FLO MicroCourse: Developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN). A PLN is part of lifelong learning to help you develop a community of practice to grow your skills, abilities, and toolbox with peers. This topic builds participants’ digital literacy/learning to become more connected to peer facilitators and keep current on developments and best practices in the context of learning and teaching in post-secondary education.
Learn more: FLO MicroCourse: Developing a Personal Learning Network
📅 FLO Lab: Recognition, Relationship, and Resilience — A Framework for Trauma-Informed Post-Secondary Education
January 25, 2023 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PT
Grounded in intersectionality, holistic wellness, and relational teaching, this course will allow participants to discuss various approaches to curriculum development and delivery as well as the need for institutional adaptations in the post-secondary environment. Supportive interpersonal relationships with students are vital to a trauma-informed pedagogy; therefore, participants will consider the need for empathy, boundaries, and self-care in their teaching practices.
📅 Research Speaker Series
BCcampus is happy to be hosting a spring 2023 Research Speaker Series that offers all BCcampus research fellows and scholars across post-secondary institutions in B.C. an opportunity to learn and share your knowledge and advocacy on research methods, approaches, and pedagogies regarding accessibility; access; equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); and Indigenous engagement in teaching and learning.
- January 26, 2023 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Erin Fields, Creating and Managing Your Academic Profile
- February 16, 2023 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Bruno de Oliveira Jayme, Arts-Based Research
- March 9, 2023 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Dr. Afsaneh Sharif, Inclusive and Accessible Research
Learn more: Research Speaker Series
📅 FLO Lab: Staying Current with Essential Digital Literacy
February 1, 2023 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PT
Digital literacy skills, including using various technologies and critically evaluating digital sources and information, are essential for today’s graduates. Educators must also possess these skills to incorporate digital tools and technologies that support learners effectively, help learners find relevant information, and identify gaps in their digital skill development. Amid a pandemic, with so many new and emerging technologies available, it is natural to feel overwhelmed.
Learn more: FLO Lab: Staying Current with Essential Digital Literacy
📅 Micro-Credentials: Competency at the Core
February 22, 2023 | 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Learn about competencies, one of the core components of micro-credentials, from experts in the field. Keynote speaker Lena Patterson from Toronto Metropolitan University will situate micro-credentials and competencies on the world stage and give us context for the day. International competency expert Dennis Green will tackle the basics of competencies.
Learn more: Micro-Credentials: Competency at the Core
A complete list of our upcoming events, archives, and resources are available on our website.
Recommended Reading
📘 Safe, Challenging, and Transformative: The Importance of Pairing Debrief and Reflection with OER Video Demonstrations and Quizzes
BCcampus Research Fellow Theresa Southam investigated students' perceptions of inclusivity and accessibility in OER designed for online learning.
📘 Land Acknowledgement: Five Steps Toward New Beginnings
Do you know who and where you are most of the time? In this thought piece, Gwen Nguyen reflects on her own personal practice of acknowledging the land.
Learn more: Land Acknowledgement: Five Steps Toward New Beginnings
Check out the latest news from BCcampus on our blog.
Accepting Applications
💻 Apply to Review an Open Textbook
We invite you to apply to review an open textbook to help us deliver quality content to students and faculty. Approved reviews will earn a $250 honorarium as a token of our gratitude for evaluating and improving the materials being created for the post-secondary classrooms of B.C. and around the world.
Learn more: Apply to Review an Open Textbook
💻 BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education
This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the open education movement in British Columbia. These contributions may include significant leadership, open educational resources (OER) development, research, or advocacy by faculty, students, support staff, or administrators at post-secondary institutions in B.C. or others who support the post-secondary system in B.C.
Learn more: BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education
💻 BCcampus Research Newsletter
We launched our very first, research-focused newsletter. Read the first edition: BCcampus Research Newsletter.
This newsletter aims to promote innovative research on improving learning and teaching experiences for the B.C. post-secondary sector and beyond. Our impact areas are:
- Learning and Teaching Online
- Open Education Practices
- Student Access, Accessibility, and Engagement
- Indigenous Engagement
We hope you enjoy this edition! Subscribe below so you do not miss our biannual updates!
Subscribe: BCcampus Research Newsletter
💻 Collaborate With Us
The BCcampus Collaborative Projects & Indigenous Engagement (CPIE) team is one of the ways we directly collaborate with learning communities. Our team regularly puts out calls for proposals (CFPs) to develop open educational resources for B.C.’s higher education community.
We need your unique abilities and experiences to help us build learning communities where everyone feels welcome and valued. So come and collaborate with us by submitting a proposal.
For those of you who prefer engaging with information in video format, please check out the “Collaborate With Us” video.
Open Calls For Proposals:
- Call for Proposals – Development of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Early Learning and Care Professional Training
- Call for Proposals – Early Learning and Child Care Training and Professional Development for Participants Who Are Deaf/Hard of Hearing
- Call for Proposal: Redesigning Professional Learning to Improve ECE Accessibility
- Call for Proposal: Developing Professional Learning to Improve the ECE Experience for Indigenous Children and Families
- Call for Proposal: Developing Professional Learning to Improve ECE Practice in B.C.
- Call for Proposal: Developing Professional Learning to Improve Knowledge and Understanding of the Current Context for ECE in B.C.
Learn more: Collaborate With Us
💻 Call for Evaluators: Digital Literacy Resource Evaluation Working Group
We are currently seeking expressions of interest from members of the B.C. post-secondary community to join our team of resource evaluators. This group of individuals will assist in the review and selection of openly licensed content for inclusion in the digital literacy collection, a collection that will 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.
Closes: January 18, 2023
Learn more: Call for Evaluators: Digital Literacy Resource Evaluation Working Group
💻 Digital Literacy Project: Call for Open Content
We are currently 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
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.
