While we were disappointed that we couldn’t hold as many in-person events as we have in previous years, we are elated with the successes we’ve had with our online experiences.
Open Education
We saw significant engagement and interaction in the first installation of the Cascadia Open Education Summit, an internationally attended event to share and discuss ground-breaking ideas, research, and best practices for using OER.
To continue increasing awareness and access to open education, we hosted, facilitated, or participated in a wide range of events, including:
- Adopting, Adapting, or Creating OER: A OER Grant Showcase of What’s Happening at TRU
- Adult Basic Education OER Showcase
- Cooking with H5P: In the Kitchen with Arley Cruthers
- Cooking with H5P: In the Kitchen with Kyle Mackie
- Cooking with H5P: Inside Pressbooks with Steel Wagstaff
- Cooking with H5P: The Project Banquet
- Copyright and Licensing in Open Educational Resources
- Finding, Using, and Sharing Open Educational Resources
- How It Started/How It’s Going: 10 Years of Open Textbooks in B.C.
- Introduction to Pressbooks
- LaTeX Learning Community
- Making OER Count: Incorporating OER into the Tenure and Promotion Process
- OER Production Series: Advanced Pressbooks
- OER Production Series: Beyond Accessibility in OER
- OER Production Series: Find, Use and Share Open Education Resources
- OER Production Series: Introduction to Pressbooks
- OER Production Series: Technical Accessibility in OER
- Open Education Faculty Fellows Project Showcase
- Open for Business: A Showcase of New OER for Business Programs
- Shop Talk: An Open Space for Trades Faculty
Learning and Teaching
We provided a wide variety of offerings for the educators of B.C. and developed opportunities to improve the student experience through events such as:
- ACE-WIL Town Hall: B.C. WIL Council Employer/Community Partner Survey Results
- ACE-WIL Town Hall: Connecting the Phase II COWIL Project
- ACE-WIL Town Hall: Let’s Connect
- How To Be an Antiracist
- BCcampus Book Club: Small Teaching Online
- ETUG Spring Workshop: Bold New Spaces
- ETUG: Assessment, Analytics, and Student Learning: Privacy and Our Emerging Tools
- FLO — Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- FLO Course: Trauma-Informed Teaching
- FLO Course: Universal Design for Learning
- FLO Friday: Accessible Course Design – Separating Content from Delivery
- FLO Friday: Alternative Assessment: Negotiating Standards
- FLO Friday: Arts-Based Learning Online
- FLO Friday: Engagement Strategies for Hybrid/HyFlex Courses
- FLO Friday: Teaching with a Trauma-Informed Lens
- FLO Friday: UDL in Practice
- FLO Friday: UDL in Practice
- FLO Friday: Ungrading Unpacked!
- FLO Lab: Whole Body Learning
- FLO MicroCourse – More Than Words: Developing Anti-Racist Pedagogies
- FLO MicroCourse: Alternative Assessment
- FLO MicroCourse: Authentic and Alternative Assessments
- FLO MicroCourse: Considerations to Indigenize Your Work
- FLO MicroCourse: Current Topics for Micro-Credentials in B.C.
- FLO MicroCourse: Design with Liberating Structures
- FLO MicroCourse: Digital Literacy to Fluency
- FLO MicroCourse: Getting Started with Hybrid or HyFlex Learning
- FLO Synchronous
- FLO Workshop: Coaching Student Teams
- FLO Workshop: Rubrics Rubrics Rubrics!
- Fun FLO Friday: Choose Your Own Adventure
- Fun FLO Friday: Ice Breakers!
- HyFlex ReAction Event: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Lunchable Learning
- Q & A with Flower Darby, author of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
We expanded our repertoire of topics to help improve equity, diversity, and inclusion for on- and off-campus environments, and this enabled us to work with some of the up-and-coming mentors and leaders in this essential field, through events such as:
- Accessibility and Universal Design in Open Educational Resources
- Celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day
- Celebrating Indigenous History Month
- Inclusion Training: Understanding Diversity and Inclusion for Safer Spaces for Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Team Members and Students — five offerings
- Moving from Men as Allies to Men as Stakeholders —two offerings
- Pawsitive Partnerships in Education Settings
- Pulling Together Series for Trades Faculty
- Supporting Women in Trades from Apprenticeship through Red Seal Endorsement
- The Empty Chair: From Anti-Racist Intention to Action in B.C.’s Post-secondary System
- Women in Trades
Mental Health and Wellness
With the support of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training, we developed and delivered a series of workshops to focus on mental health and wellness. The webinars included:
- Navigating Back to Campus with Resilience, Mindfulness, and Compassion
- Let’s Talk About Suicide Info Session
- Capacity to Connect Information Session: Prepare to Adapt and Offer
- Capacity to Connect: Training for Faculty and Staff
Preventing and Responding to Sexualized Violence
With the support of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training, we developed and delivered a series of workshops to focus on the prevention and responding to sexual violence on campus. The webinars included:
- Three-day SV Forum – Moving Forward Together – Honouring Consent
- Accountability and Repairing Relationships: Two-Part Workshop
- Active Bystander Intervention – Facilitator Workshop
- Consent and Sexual Violence Facilitator’s Workshop
- Preventing and Responding to Sexualized Violence through Sharing and Collaboration
- Sex Work and Sexual Violence: Creating Safer Spaces on Campus
- Supporting Survivors Facilitator’s Workshop
- Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: What It Is and How To Help
- Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: What Rights Do Students Have?
- Trauma-Informed Facilitation
Safer Campuses for Everyone
The Safer Campuses for Everyone training is a 75-minute online, self-paced, non-facilitated training developed in an e-learning program called Articulate Rise. Individuals who work in B.C. post-secondary institutions can adapt the course content in the Articulate Rise program and then share the course with learners through an LMS such as Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, or D2L.