You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes, you might find you get what you need: Reflections on the PebblePad Rollin’ Stones Tour
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You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes, you might find you get what you need: Reflections on the PebblePad Rollin’ Stones Tour

ByLisa Gedak

Start us up! if you start us up, we’ll never stop! start us up, start us up, we’ll never stop! start us up! yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahhhhhhh! start us up! we are Rock Stars on PebblePad making things easy,  for KPU Faculty yeah, were making things easy, community! that’s what we be! ways of learning like you never, never, dreamed! start us up!  The crowd sings and dances along as the lyrics flash across the screen, synchronized…

The silver linings in the COVID pandemic? Two educators’ musings
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The silver linings in the COVID pandemic? Two educators’ musings

ByLeeann Waddington and Laurel Tien

Laurel Tien, PhD (c), Teaching & Learning Commons Educational Consultant Leeann Waddington, EdD (c), Manager of Learning Technology and Acting Senior Manager of Education Development As we collectively slow down and enter into the next phase of the COVID pandemic, our attention is drawn to discussions of the impact on our individual and collective psyches—and…

Overcoming the Challenge of Implicit Expectations
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Overcoming the Challenge of Implicit Expectations

ByChristina Page

You’ve designed a major assignment or project that challenges your students and allows them the opportunity to integrate their learning.  You’ve been intentional about selecting relevant topics.  You’re excited to see the results of your students’ work.  And then it happens – the assignments come in, and you realize that many students have missed the…

Introductory and community-building discussions in online courses
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Introductory and community-building discussions in online courses

ByGeorge Veletsianos and admin

This blog post was originally written by Dr. George Veletsianos, a professor at Royal Roads University and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning. We would like to thank Dr. Veletsianos for allowing us to repost his blog. Link to original post: https://www.veletsianos.com/2020/09/11/introductory-and-community-building-discussions-in-online-courses/ Link to Dr. Veletsianos’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/veletsianos The beginning of the (unique) Fall semester…

Who comes first in the ‘new normal’ of pandemic pedagogy? The teacher or the learner?
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Who comes first in the ‘new normal’ of pandemic pedagogy? The teacher or the learner?

ByGillian Sudlow

As trending hashtags and commercial taglines keep reminding us, the answer is neither, for we are in this together. If ever there was a time to yank the sage off the stage and extend a hand as a guide on the side, it is now. As we all suffer collective whiplash from the sudden pivot…

Building an openly-licensed “course in a box” in a month
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Building an openly-licensed “course in a box” in a month

By, Arley Cruthers, John Grant, Seanna Takacs and Peg Fong

A group of KPU’s Applied Communications & Public Relations (ACPR) instructors and Dr. Seanna Takacs, Educational Consultant for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in KPU’s Teaching & Learning Commons and Accessibility Services, teamed up this summer to respond to a unique Call for Proposals issued by BCcampus: to develop an open online course (OOC) within four…

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Small and Pragmatic Steps to Support Accessibility Online

ByJennifer Hardwick

I found Universal Design for Learning (UDL) by accident. I was a novice teacher working with students who faced massive barriers — disability, language, economic precarity, technology access, racism, colonialism, and discrimination as a result of their gender and/or sexuality to name a few — that impacted their learning. My search for tools to support…

Rising to the Challenge: Reflections on “Levelling Up”

Rising to the Challenge: Reflections on “Levelling Up”

ByLisa Gedak and Leeann Waddington

The sudden pivot to remote delivery in the spring and summer semesters left many faculty feeling overwhelmed and scrambling to move their courses online. Some faculty are still trying to catch their breath, while others are frantically preparing for fall online delivery as the pandemic continues. For many faculty, digital delivery was not something they…