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…

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…

Video Production at Home: Setting up a Studio

ByGordon Cobb

Over the last few months I have had the opportunity to deliver webinar sessions to KPU faculty exploring Kaltura Capture and Big Blue Button. I’ve also participated in the Level Up workshop series as a guest speaker, hosting conversations about educational technology and media production. I also produced the TLCommons first music video, based on…

Building Bridges: Highlights from the OLC Innovate 2020 Conference

ByLisa Gedak, Gordon Cobb and Rajiv Jhangiani

KPU recently became an institutional member of the Online Learning Consortium, so when the organization announced that their OLC Innovate 2020 conference would take place entirely online, we immediately signed up for an unlimited group package to enable our university community to engage in the many rich conversations across 160+ sessions over the two-week event….

Frameworks, Approaches and Models – Oh My!

Frameworks, Approaches and Models – Oh My!

ByLisa Gedak and Leeann Waddington

Teaching in the 21st century can sometimes feel like wandering down the yellow brick road, like Dorothy, dreaming of arriving at the emerald city of Oz (the online learning environment), only to find the great and powerful man behind the curtain (the experience) is not what you expected. Even scarier, if you did not choose…

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Online Teaching with the most basic of tools – email

ByTannis Morgan

This blog post was originally written by Dr. Tannis Morgan, Advisor, Teaching and Learning and Researcher, Open Education Practices at BCcampus. We would like to thank Dr. Morgan for allowing us to repost her blog. You can find her other posts and work on her website: https://homonym.ca/ Link to original post How to teach online using…

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Pivots, Pirouettes, and Piqués: Gracefully Managing the Anxieties of Remote Teaching and Learning

ByRajiv Jhangiani

As we should all know by now, pivoting rapidly to remote delivery of teaching and learning over the course of a few days to is not the same thing as designing an effective online course. However, as many of you will also now experience, designing an online course with a few weeks notice (perhaps also…