Hunter Hastings – A series of 14 digital tutorials that teach the basic elements of APA Style formatting, including title page, heading, and reference page set up and various mechanics of style, such as title casing, abbreviations, and use of first-person language.

Victoria Ansell & Crystal Yin – The Library and Disability Services collaborated together to create an assistive technology bank for JIBC students. We want to showcase the items we have available for loan and allow attendees to test them out for themselves.

Carol Gardner, Lorna McInnes, Charity Ifesemen – The new online course is more interactive and engaging than ever. One new and innovative strategy in the design was the use of realistic scenarios and instructional videos created with immersive 3D technology.

Barbara Collis – BC Corrections has developed a series of videos to be used as evaluation tools during recruitment interviews. These videos depict realistic scenarios applicants might face in a correctional setting. After watching, candidates are asked questions to assess their ability to analyze and respond to these situations.

Sunny Mangat – Students participated in a neighbourhood clean-up initiative in Chinatown/Gastown and engaged with community policing to learn about community’s struggles, and challenges.

Dave Smulders, Michal Fedeles, Jennifer Jasper, Amy Severson – We wanted to explore the idea of a living community of educators-practitioners —getting together to check in, share ideas and experiences, ask coaching questions, inspire and challenge one another to keen trying new approaches and build a foundation for instructor development at JIBC.

Kent Highnam, Junsong Zhang – ChatItOut is an innovative, AI-powered tool designed to help users prepare for challenging conflict conversations. It guides users through conversation providing stage transitions and conversation summaries.

Nina Bennett – Community Led Learning (CEL) promotes students getting out of the traditional classroom setting and building meaningful relationships with community partners.

Michael Brandt on To AI or not to AI – that is the question! I have embraced AI and have use it on a regular basis in the classroom to facilitate pair/group discussion on assigned topics.

Elizabeth Williams – Explaining how students and instructors alike can use Generative AI in useful ways to further their education without breaking Academic Integrity.

Elder Pillip Gladue, Jason La Rochelle & Nicole Mate – A weeklong day camp for Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) youth ages 18 to 24. The camp provides opportunities for youth to meet new friends and connect with Elders and Knowledge Keepers, in a culturally safe and supportive environment.

Krista Lambert – In this session, we share our reflections on a 10-month collaborative, multi-institutional project to adapt an Introduction to Psychology open textbook through the lenses of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Naz Maghsoudi – The Faculty orientation guide is designed to streamline the onboarding process for new and returning faculty members, ensuring they have all the necessary resources to be successful in their role at JIBC.

Megan Mercer & Darren Blackburn – The Associate Certificate in Crisis Communications is an exciting new micro-credential that provides professionals with practical competencies and skillsets to manage crisis communications programs.

Brianna Henshaw – The Library’s previous Blackboard Research Skills Tutorial has been re-created as an online, accessible Research Tutorial in a LibGuide format. The tutorial includes new activities and additional modules, and can be shared with a wider audience.

Kavita and Dennis were awarded a JIBC SSHRC Institutional Grant – Explore. During Demofest, we will be sharing our research on document analysis. In addition we will be playing a game on accessibility. Come visit our table and learn more.

Justice Institute Students’ Union – The high cost of textbooks has become a serious obstacle to accessing post-secondary education in BC. 26% of BC students choose to not register for a course due to textbook costs, which negatively impacts their academic career. Find out how Open Education Resources (OERs) can help.

Amy Severson, Jennifer Jasper & Kent Highnam – The Peace Hub 2024 is a collaborative, exploratory event in BC. The day brings together post-secondary institutions, non-profit organizations, and community groups to connect, share, and envision pathways toward peaceful engagement and restorative justice initiatives.

Tu Van Trieu – We aim to showcase a pilot course that improves assignment design by integrating PebblePad with Blackboard. Our goal is to share how this integration can be a powerful tool for faculty looking to innovate their course design, streamline their feedback assessment, and improve student outcomes.

Adam Lossing – Our project includes the use of submissions to a Blackboard assignment to augment our Pressbooks textbook for the course.

Colleen Shaw, Slavka Andrejevic, Chelsey Chrisitan, Karla Weller, Tasnim Nathoo – Family Justice suite of courses (FAMJ courses) cover a range of issues that families going through separation and divorce experience and provide family dispute resolution practitioners with the knowledge and skills required to address those.

CTLI and Sheriff Academy created a 360 web application to simulate real courthouse scenarios including registry, cell blocks, and courtrooms. Sheriffs-in-training will be able to see and experience the courthouse regardless of their physical location. Sheriffs instructors will be able to walk through potential incidents in each part of the courthouse and orient learners to their roles and responsibilities.

Britt Dzioba – The BC Digital Literacy Hub is a public, online collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) designed for instructors in post-secondary institutions in British Columbia. The goal is to help educators, including learning and teaching staff, integrate digital literacy materials easily into existing courses and improve their own digital literacy skills.