13 Aug The Learning Hub: Issue 20
Dennis Yip
In this week’s issue…
Virtual reality could serve as powerful environmental education tool, according to Stanford researchers
From Stanford News | news.stanford.edu
Stanford researchers took a virtual reality experience into a variety of educational settings, including high school classrooms, to test the impact on awareness and understanding of ocean acidification. Read More
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How to Build an Online Learning Community: 6 Theses
From Jesse Stommel Blog | jessestommel.com
Educational institutions are spaces for learning, but more specifically, they are spaces for social learning. And so our role as educators and administrators of educational institutions has to be focused on building community in addition to offering courses, designing curriculum, and credentialing. Read More
JIBC Library
Library is now offering curbside book & DVD pick-up!
Prefer to have delivery? Our free mailing service has you covered!
Read all about it on our COVID-19 Subject Guide
Upcoming CTLI Virtual Drop-in Sessions
Come meet us in Collaborate! Bring your questions!
- Thursday, August 20, 2020 from 11am to 12pm
- Thursday, September 3, 2020 from 11am to 12pm
We’ll be running a drop-in session each week, on Thursdays, between 11am-12pm.
Register for your session here.
Resources
Interesting Finds
- Pivot to Digital: A TRU Community Resource
- Pivot to Online: A Student Guide
- Workload Estimator
- Design for Diversity Learning Toolkit
- Free Software Directory from the Free Software Foundation
BCcampus Recorded Webinars
- Adapting to COVID-19: Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Remove Barriers for All Learning – BCcampus webinar hosted August 12, 2020.
- Adapting to COVID-19: The Technology Toolkit – Watch the Webinar Recording and view the resources
BCcampus Upcoming Events
Adapting to COVID-19: Answering the Call to Being and Becoming an Ally
Join us as for a dialogue with a diverse panel of anti-racism educators and activists. They will share their views on what it means to be an ally, how to become one, and how to acknowledge and disrupt systemic racism. Responding to amplified calls to confront systemic racism, the panelists will discuss how to navigate these complex dynamics in post-secondary campus and classroom interactions. Panelists will explore the importance of addressing intersectional oppressions embedded in teaching, curriculum, research and service as well as the adverse impacts that structural and epistemic racism have on BIPOC faculty, staff, students, and communities.
August 18, 2020 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Register here
FLO MicroCourse – Make Your Course Intro Video
Do you want to create a great first impression in your online course? This course will help you create an introduction video that excites your learners about what’s ahead and includes mostly asynchronous activities Synchronous sessions will be recorded.
August 17-August 23, 2020 @ 12:00 pm | Register here
Adapting to COVID-19: Learning Design Studio Drop-In Session
Join us for this one-hour drop in session which will build on the information provided in the webinar on Building Community and Enacting Care in On-line environments. This session will provide participants with the ability to consider learning design and the tools that will assist you to connect with students in on-line environments. Come with questions and learn with our facilitators and other participants to develop strategies to address your challenges.
August 21, 2020 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Register here
FLO MicroCourse – Write a Compelling Discussion Prompt
In asynchronous courses, there are as many ways to launch a discussion as there are topics to discuss. Come workshop any discussion prompt topic and invite learners to engage in your course work.
August 24-August 30, 2020 @ 12:00 pm | Register here
Click here for the list of BlueJeans recordings from #AskBCcampus
We’re still in the early days for pivoting learning online –
it’s best to practice simplicity, empathy, and compassion. #AskBCcampus
~ BCcampus
DROP-IN THIS MONTH
Thursday, August 20, 2020 from 11am to 12pm | Join session
Thursday, September 3, 2020 from 11am to 12pm | Join session
CTLI RESOURCES
Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning: A Practical Guide (PDF)
UDL Guidelines (PDF)
Facilitating Synchronous Online Learning with Collaborate Webinar
Watch a recording of the workshop here.
Follow along with a copy of the slides.
Suggestions for Synchronous Online Learning (PDF).
Pivoting to Online
Watch a Recording of a Collaborate Training Workshop
Blackboard Help | For Faculty | For Students
Can’t Help Falling In Love – Elvis Cover by 6-Year-Old Claire Crosby
The Crosbys
CONTACT US
Want some one-on-one help? Have something specific you need assistance with? Reach out to the CTLI team by emailing us at telt@jibc.ca.
OFFICE OF INDIGENIZATION
Cultural safety in the classroom is a top priority for educators. As highlighted in the last issue, when cultural safety is firmly established, Indigenous learners report feeling a sense of belonging, respect and place within the academy and this increases the likelihood for positive educational and community-based outcomes. Thus the goal is realizing an educational experience for all learners that respects, recognizes and reflects cultural identities and shares in an equitable balance of power in classroom structures, relationships, and expectations. Cultural safety is defined and measured by learners not instructors. At the end of the day, how did you make the learner feel?
Practicing cultural safety for Indigenous learners requires a critical reflection of your beliefs, practices and histories as an educator and an analysis of your intersecting understanding of Canadian history, colonization, institutional racism and how colonial relationships apply in your life (benefits and losses, for example). Actualizing cultural safety is only possible when educators take responsibility to engage in critical thought about how cultural discrimination and systems of social and institutional power and advantage play out in their minds, hearts and hands. Every Canadian is complicit in the colonial project because its origins span long before settlers arrived to Turtle Island. We all have inherited ideologies passed along generations that seek to conquer and divide. It is up to us now to disrupt this pattern.
CONTACT US
Email indigenization@jibc.ca if you want to discuss the self-reflection and self-awareness components of cultural safety.