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Exciting Opportunity for Social Science Educators! Are you ready to take your teaching and research to the next level? Join us for the Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Lab - a transformative, hands-on workshop designed for post-secondary social science educators! 🔍 Explore Digital Scholarship: Dive deep into what digital scholarship means and why it's crucial for the social sciences. 🛠️ Hands-On Tools: Get to know powerful digital humanities tools such as text analysis, mapping, and data visualization. See how these can revolutionize your research and teaching! 🎨 Create Your Own Project: Conceptualize a digital scholarship project tailored to your research or teaching interests. Apply what you’ve learned and foster innovation in your field. 🔗 Register Now: https://ow.ly/Vne950TabPp #FLOLab #SocialScience

Conversations about mental health have expanded, but barriers to accessing care and support have also grown—especially in academia. Many current approaches to academic mental health adopt a ‘one size fits all’ model, leaving the unique needs of diverse students, staff, and communities unmet. In this session, we'll: ✅Review existing evidence, policies, and interventions around academic mental health ✅Reflect on how current approaches include or exclude different groups ✅Explore pragmatic, inclusive ideas to build a community of care across campuses, teaching, research, and pastoral support ✅Address systemic issues such as climate change, political unrest, and inequalities that disproportionately impact minoritized groups. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations and reshape the future of mental health in academia: https://ow.ly/k3X950TCvSU #ResearchSpeakerSeries

Join our free, one-hour FLO Friday workshop dedicated to leveraging sound in online education. 🎧 Explore sonic pedagogy principles, practical audio tools, and creative curriculum design for enhanced online teaching. This presentation is perfect for online educators, instructional designers, and sound enthusiasts looking to enrich the digital learning experience. Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/W6H350RyZxe

Join us for the next session in the Accessibility Bites Series! Facilitator Ka Li will provide an overview of techniques, tools, and strategies that blind and low vision students use to succeed in STEAM courses. Learn practical insights to make your courses more inclusive and come away with valuable resources. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your teaching approach! Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/asQQ50SIstE

Join the British Columbia Open Education Community (BCOEC) and be part of a dynamic network comprised of members from the post-secondary sector in British Columbia and the Yukon! BCOEC's monthly virtual gatherings provide a supportive platform for sharing valuable insights, offering guidance, and delving into discussions surrounding the nuances of open education. Don't miss out on the opportunity to connect, learn, and contribute to the ongoing dialogue about the challenges, best practices, and latest developments in open education! Learn more: https://ow.ly/fLkc50RxG66

The BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education recognizes outstanding contributions to the open education movement in British Columbia. These contributions may include significant leadership, open educational resources (OER) development, research, or advocacy by faculty, students, support staff, or administrators at post-secondary institutions in B.C. or others who support the post-secondary system in B.C. Individuals or teams may be recognized. Nominate your colleagues now!  https://ow.ly/kI4M50TL59j

Digital Learning Strategy Forum The Forum is back with a packed program and updates on B.C.’s Digital Learning Framework. Free in person or online. Hosted by BCcampus. #DLSForum2024 #digitallearning Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gh3d7cMP

Are you an educator looking to create engaging learning materials quickly and easily? Join our interactive workshop on Canva, the free-to-use graphic design tool, and discover design hacks to create engaging learning materials in minutes. Whether you're new to Canva or a seasoned user, you’ll learn: ✅ How to use Magic Studio and other AI tools for automated, personalized designs ✅The ethical considerations and data privacy practices for using AI in the classroom ✅The benefits of Canva for Education and Canva for Campus ✅How Canva's AI tools align (or don't) with UNESCO’s Guidance for generative AI in education and the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework Learn more and register here: https://ow.ly/4kQj50TBNSf #EdTech #SandBoxSeries

While innovations in educational technology offer exciting new possibilities, they also raise ethical questions around accessibility, sustainability, and responsible use. In this online workshop, we’ll explore how educational technologies impact climate change and why it’s crucial to make informed, ethical decisions about the tools we integrate into learning. We’ll focus on diversity and inclusion, discussing how technology can either remove or create barriers in education, and tackle the ethical dilemmas surrounding data privacy and equitable access. Whether you’re a seasoned EdTech leader or new to these conversations, this workshop will offer insights, collaborative discussions, and practical strategies for making education more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable. 💡 Key Topics: ✅Sustainability: How do educational technology choices impact the environment? ✅Accessibility and Inclusion: How can we ensure equitable access and remove barriers? ✅Ethics and EdTech: How do we make informed, responsible choices around data privacy and tech use? Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the future of responsible teaching and learning! https://ow.ly/I1fS50TBNxF

Research Speaker Series: Using the 5Rs as an Indigenous research framework 🌍 In this interactive session, Anishinaabe scholar Jean-Paul Restoule will introduce the 5Rs framework—Respect, Responsibility, Relevance, Reciprocity, and Relationship—as a guide for conducting meaningful Indigenous research. We’ll explore how the process of research, grounded in relationship with spirit, community, and family, is central to Indigenous methodologies. Restoule will also discuss other key Rs, the importance of connecting to local values in conducting Indigenous research as well as implications for Indigenist vs. Indigenous research. 📅 Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/2X2x50TCu4C #ResearchSpeakerSeries