20 Aug The Learning Hub: Issue 21
Dennis Yip
In this week’s issue…
Becoming a Student Ready Teacher
By Eddy Conroy and Jesse Stommel | jessestommel.com
Students were struggling before the pandemic, but the last several months have accelerated a conversation that has been going on for years — about the need to talk frankly about students’ basic needs — about the need for policy work aimed at making college accessible for marginalized students — about the policy failures that got us to this place — about the ways our institutions, our disciplines, and our pedagogies need to change to include students previously shut out of education. Read More
Setting Expectations for Online Students
From Center for Learning Experimentation, Application, and Research | teachingcommons.unt.edu
Building community online is a lot like relationship building in any other context. There needs to be a sense of trust, some mutual sharing, and healthy boundaries for interaction. Read More
Designing hybrid learning in a Covid-19 era: a video of Tony Bates’s presentation to CiCan members
From Online learning and Distance Education Resources by Tony Bates | tonybates.ca
I had the privilege on June 12 to give a 37 minute Zoom presentation and discussion to members of Colleges and Institutes Canada, a national organization to which nearly all colleges and some universities in Canada belong. Read More
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Upcoming CTLI Virtual Drop-in Sessions
Come meet us in Collaborate! Bring your questions!
We will not have a drop-in session this week
- Thursday, September 3, 2020 from 11am to 12pm
- Thursday, September 10, 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
- “Learning to learn online.” Written by students for students – Open Textbook Resource
- Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Open Textbook Resource
Online tools for visualization
- Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard developed by Google.
- RAW creates interactive data visualizations with D3.
- Use Infogr.am to create both infographics and standalone charts that have visual impact and drive stakeholder engagement.
BCcampus Upcoming Events
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
Instructional Design: Practice Problems in Open Textbooks
As cooking is more than just tossing ingredients into a pot to simmer, the development of open textbooks calls for the methodology and approaches of instructional designers. In this month’s webinar, we welcome two colleagues from the University of Saskatchewan’s Distance Education Unit.
August 27, 2020 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Register here
Indigenous Speaker Series: A Conversation with TELŦIN TŦE WILNEW Instructor, Ruth Lyall
Ruth is from the Kwikwasut’inuxw Nation on her late mother’s side of the family and English on her father’s side. She grew up in Lekwungen territories. She is a proud mother, grandmother and auntie who has worked diligently to learn and uplift Kwakwaka’wakw teachings within her family. She has coordinated Kwaḱwala language classes and coached soccer within her community.
August 27, 2020 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Register here
An In-Depth Look at the Pulling Together Indigenization Guide: Teachers and Instructors
BCIT and BCcampus would like to invite you to participate in two interactive Zoom sessions about the Pulling Together Indigenization Guides where we will focus on the Teachers and Instructors Guide.
September 17, 2020 @ 9:00 am – 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, September 3, 2020 from 11am to 12pm | Join session
Thursday, September 10, 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
HOMESCHOOL 2.0!! EVERY KID EVER!! NOT AGAIN!!
Jimmy Rees
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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
Inclusion. Diversity. Equity. All concepts that individually contribute to nurturing a welcoming and safe classroom environment. When applied in practice, these concepts assist instructors to meet moral, legal and human right imperatives, institutional policies and procedures and from a business-case perspective, results in stronger economic performance and organizational citizenship behaviors which lend to more positive institutional climates and cultures. On the surface, ingraining these concepts appear good for people and profit, however what is often overlooked is that these concepts, or constructs, are developed within the context of a colonial society.
Indigenous students enter educational institutions with a unique set of needs and when academies address inclusion, diversity and equity in catch-all policies and initiatives or under an umbrella of multi-culturalism, these needs go unanswered. Redressing social injustices in education for Indigenous students require an ongoing institutional commitment to its innovation that goes beyond surface level approaches. Social change in Colonial academies begins with a deeper, more critical examination of its institutional fabric through a decolonial lens; a reflective process necessary to bridge differences that are unattainable when structures, systems and power dynamics remain unchecked. The University of Victoria’s Centre for Youth and Society (n.d.) created a one-page brief titled Decolonization in an Educational Context to assist Instructors to begin their reflective journey of unlearning, undoing and disrupting educational norms that are antithetical to inclusion, diversity and equity.
CONTACT US
Email indigenization@jibc.ca to discuss decolonization and its capacity to advance higher education.