BCcampus News for the week of July 17, 2024 No images? Click here Hi reader, As we enjoy the warmth of July and prepare for the new school year, remember to stay cool and safe as temperatures rise across the province. While you recuperate and prepare, we’re excited to share some fantastic opportunities with you! The popular OER Production Series returns, offering invaluable guidance on creating and using open educational resources. Our much-loved Accessibility Bites series is also back, providing practical tips for making digital content in the classroom more accessible. Additionally, we invite you to contribute to our Call for Case Study Proposals on sustainability for shared technology or curriculum initiatives. Your insights can help build a repository of sustainable educational practices. Don’t forget about our ongoing Digital Literacy Challenge. You can join anytime and progress at your own pace, enhancing your digital literacy skills along the way. Until next time! ![]() Learning Opportunities📅 Digital Literacy ChallengeJuly 8 - August 30, 2024 Educators, are you ready to begin your new learning quest? Even though the challenge has already started, you can join at any time and catch up at your own pace! Join us for an eight-week asynchronous challenge to expand your digital literacy toolkit. During this series, you will learn about the eight competencies outlined in the B.C. Digital Literacy Framework, strategies for incorporating these skills into your teaching practice, and how to support student success through digital literacy. Learn more: Digital Literacy Challenge 📅 FLO Friday: A DIY Toolkit for Digital LiteracyJuly 26, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Join us for an exciting FLO Friday session in partnership with Vancouver Island University (VIU). Jessica Gemella and Anwen Burk from VIU’s Centre for Innovation in Education and Learning will share their digital literacy toolkit designed for higher education professionals. Participate in a co-creation activity, reflect on the process, and explore how to adapt this toolkit at your institution. Learn more: FLO Friday: A DIY Toolkit for Digital Literacy 📅 OER Production SeriesThursdays in August | 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. The OER Production Series is a five-part webinar focusing on the development of open educational resources (OER). From using Pressbooks, to integrating accessibility and Universal Design for Learning best practices, this series offers valuable insights for both novices and experts in open education. Learn more: OER Production Series 📅 Accessibility Bites: Alternative Format CreationAugust 29, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. The Accessibility Bites Series is a monthly webinar where we explore digital accessibility in a classroom setting. In our first session, discover how alternative format textbooks can enhance accessibility and improve your classroom materials. In just 30 minutes, we'll introduce the Accessible British Columbia Act, highlight accessibility features of alternative format materials, and discuss common accessibility issues and solutions. Learn more: Accessibility Bites: Alternative Format Creation 📅 FLO Friday: What’s So “Safe” About Safe Spaces in Higher Education?August 30, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Educators have described their classes and institutions as “safe spaces” with increasing frequency and certainty since the 1990s. This certainty, implying that a safe space is somehow better for learning outcomes, has been widely adopted with little critical consideration of what it truly means and what is expected when an educational space is labeled “safe”. Join us for this free one-hour FLO discussion, exploring “safe space” as an educational metaphor unconsciously communicating both explicit and implicit expectations about the nature of teaching and learning relationships. Learn more: FLO Friday: What’s So “Safe” About Safe Spaces in Higher Education? 📅 British Columbia Open Education Community Monthly MeetingSeptember 18, 2024 | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The British Columbia Open Education Community (BCOEC) welcomes members from the post-secondary sector in British Columbia and the Yukon. This community convenes monthly in virtual gatherings, fostering an environment for sharing insights, providing support, and engaging in discussions about the challenges, best practices, and current issues within open education. Learn more: British Columbia Open Education Community Monthly Meeting 📅 Intersectional Sexualized Violence Project: New Resource ShowcaseSeptember 19, 2024 | 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Join our 90-minute webinar to explore new resources for preventing and responding to sexualized violence at post-secondary institutions. Developed by BCcampus with input from students, staff, faculty, and experts, these resources support graduate, international, and Indigenous students, and include training on technology-facilitated sexualized violence. This initiative, part of the Intersectional Sexualized Violence Project, was funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada and partnered with the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills. Learn more: Intersectional Sexualized Violence Project: New Resource Showcase 📅 FLO MicroCourse: Decolonizing Pedagogies – Reframing the Ways We TeachSeptember 23-27, 2024 Join us for this free one-week FLO MicroCourse offering you opportunities to reframe some of the pedagogical approaches that could be hindering your journey towards reconciliation. Each day will introduce a new approach or resource aimed at weaving Indigenous perspectives into our practice, fostering decolonization and expanding our teaching repertoire. Learn more: FLO MicroCourse: Decolonizing Pedagogies – Reframing the Ways We Teach A complete list of our upcoming events, archives, and resources is available on our website. ![]() Open Education UpdatesThose wishing to spend the summer expanding their knowledge of open ed can check out one (or all) of the five webinars offered in next month's OER Production Series. If AI and OER are of interest, consider registering for OER and AI focus groups scheduled this summer. Learn more: Open Education Updates for July 2024 Check out the latest B.C. Open Education Updates. ![]() Seeking Submissions💻 Call for Case Study Proposals: Sustainability for Shared Technology or Curriculum Initiatives BCcampus is pleased to present a call for case studies exploring models for developing, delivering, and sustaining shared technologies and curriculum. British Columbia’s post-secondary system has produced and shared many locally developed educational technology and curriculum initiatives. However, these initiatives often face challenges in long-term delivery and sustainability. To address this challenge, we're seeking best practice case studies to support B.C. initiatives. We also welcome studies detailing unsuccessful initiatives and an analysis of the reasons it may not have succeeded. Learn more: Call for Case Study Proposals: Sustainability for Shared Technology or Curriculum Initiatives 💻 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 ![]() 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. ![]() |