BCcampus News for the week of March 20, 2024
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Spotlight
📅 BCcampus Regional Roadshow
Save the Date!
This spring, BCcampus is hitting the road and heading to a regional institution near you!
In June, we will be visiting a handful of B.C.’s rural and remote post-secondary institutions to spend a few days exploring current themes in post-secondary teaching and learning.
Each stop on the BCcampus Regional Roadshow will offer a tailored selection of workshops, sessions, and topics offered in our signature style of caring, inclusive, and fun learning spaces.
Join us at a stop near you:
- Okanagan College, June 10-11, 2024
- Thompson Rivers University, June 13-14, 2024
- Selkirk College, June 17-18, 2024
Let’s get this show on the road!
Learn more: BCcampus Regional Roadshow
Learning Opportunities
📅 The Possibility of New Futures: Dreaming with Open Education
March 20, 2024 | 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
This session from the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education Speakers Series will lay the foundations for topics relating to open education and make space to explore major undercurrents in the field. How do we conceive of the purpose and value of education in these troubling times? What are our roles as educators? What futures are we collectively imagining? By making space for reflection and dreaming, this session will encourage attendees to find connections between open education and their practice.
Registration: The Possibility of New Futures: Dreaming with Open Education
📅 Social Justice Applications of Open Pedagogy with Professor Jasmine Roberts-Crews
March 28, 2024 | 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
In this talk from the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education Speakers Series, Professor Jasmine Roberts-Crews will discuss previous and emerging social justice frameworks in open education and their relevance to open pedagogy. It will also address critical considerations of open pedagogy, while providing a few examples of its practical applications.
Registration: Social Justice Applications of Open Pedagogy with Professor Jasmine Roberts-Crews
📅 FLO Friday: An Introduction to the Digital Literacy Framework
April 19, 2024 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
This FLO Friday workshop is designed to introduce participants to the foundations outlined in the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework and to provide an overview of the B.C. Digital Literacy Hub. This resource includes a variety of tools and materials, such as a self-assessment Digital Literacy Superpower quiz, course materials, and professional development resources tailored for B.C.’s post-secondary educators.
Learn more: FLO Friday: An Introduction to the Digital Literacy Framework
A complete list of our upcoming events, archives, and resources is available on our website.
Recommended Reading
📘 A Year in Review: Celebrating Milestones and Progress
How did we support teaching and learning, open education, and equity, diversity, and inclusion while collaborating on essential projects with the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills? Visit our annual review to learn what BCcampus did throughout the 2023/24 fiscal year.
Learn more: A Year in Review: Celebrating Milestones and Progress
📘 BCcampus Releases Digital Literacy Hub
BCcampus is thrilled to announce the release of the B.C. Digital Literacy Hub. Working in collaboration with B.C. post-secondary educators and the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, this collection of course and professional development materials will transform the way educators approach digital literacy by offering a wealth of resources tailored for both teaching and learning.
Learn more: BCcampus Releases Digital Literacy Hub
📘 BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: Anita Chaudhuri and Rishma Chooniedass
This month, the BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education is awarded to Anita Chaudhuri and Rishma Chooniedass from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
Learn more: BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: Anita Chaudhuri and Rishma Chooniedass
📘 Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Navigating Collaboration Together - Supporting Group Communication
Our latest blog post from the Digital Pedagogy Toolbox series delves into the importance of mastering collaboration and communication skills in a classroom setting. It highlights strategies for effective teamwork, respectful communication, and navigating diverse perspectives, emphasizing their critical role in achieving shared goals and fostering positive group dynamics.
Learn more: Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Navigating Collaboration Together - Supporting Group Communication
Check out the latest news from BCcampus on our blog.
Open Education Updates
The listserv, opentext@bccampus.ca, used for many years by BCcampus to report about open education, will be retired this summer. In its place are the BCOpen community mailing list and others tailored to specific groups and needs, such as the key contacts and open education working group listserv.
We invite the B.C. post-secondary community to nominate colleagues who have displayed excellence in open education.
For those looking to catch up on past webinars and conference presentations, take a look at the newly released Open Education 2023 Conference recordings and CCCOER's Open Education Week 2024 talks, as well as upcoming sessions on generative AI and education. We also invite you to submit links to recordings from your institution's Open Education Week webinars to open@bccampus.ca for posting in the Information Directory.
Learn more: Open Education Updates for March 2024
See OpenEd Updates for a complete list of what's happening at BCcampus.
Seeking Submissions
💻 Call for Expressions of Interest: Online Learning Designers and Facilitators
BCcampus is inviting expressions of interest from B.C. post-secondary educators 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 B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework.
The deadline to submit is 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.
💻 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
💻 Expression of Interest: EdTech Sandbox 2024-2025 Leader
We invite expressions of interest from educators, educational technology developers, and learning designers from B.C.’s public post-secondary institutions to lead a session in the EdTech Sandbox Series.
The focus areas for 2024-2025 include:
- The AI Sandbox: A space dedicated to experimenting with and reviewing artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning technologies.
- The No-Go EdTech Sandbox: A space aimed at examining learning technologies that educators, students, and staff should avoid using in teaching and learning, and why.
Please express your interest by completing the application form May 31, 2024.
Learn more: Expression of Interest: EdTech Sandbox 2024-2025 Leader
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.
