Asynchronous Self-Paced Offerings
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Course & Instructional Design
Generative AI
This WordPress site serves as a central resource on Generative AI for Teaching & Learning at KPU, offering guidelines, examples, and numerous resources. It includes sample activities, rubrics, and strategies for incorporating GenAI into courses and assessments.
UN SDGs Teaching Resource
This WordPress site is an asynchronous resource aimed to assist KPU faculty with both an overview of the history of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and examples on how to integrate UN SDGs into teaching practices.
Teaching Through Undergraduate Research
This WordPress site provides resources about best practices and the benefits of including research in your teaching. You will also find relevant information about the kinds of support KPU provides for faculty and students to engage in research projects.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
This WordPress site provides resources about engaging in research on the scholarship of teaching and learning. You will also find relevant information about the kinds of support KPU provides for faculty and students to engage in research projects.
Blended Course Development Checklist
The blended course development checklist suite is a series of prompts created to guide faculty and instructional staff to design, deliver, and facilitate a pedagogically sound course to be delivered in a blended format. There are six checklists in total distributed across three categories.
Writing-Intensive (WI) Courses
This WordPress site was created to support faculty (who don’t typically teach writing-intensive courses) teaching Writing-Intensive (WI) courses. It is created around the pedagogical requirements set by the Senate Subcommittee on Writing-Intensive (WI) Courses for the designation of a course as WI.
Moodle for KPU Faculty
This WordPress site supports instructors in using Moodle, KPU’s LMS, covering best practices, community building, modules, content, activities, and assessments. It also provides an overview and screenshots of the five available Moodle course templates.
Learn WordPress
This WordPress site helps KPU faculty and students start their WordPress journey with ease, offering an easy-to-use interface and curated resources. It includes tips, step-by-step guides, best practices, and strategies for using WordPress in educational settings, covering everything from theme selection to content building and plugin use.
Conferencing Tools for Teaching and Learning: Best Practices
An open PressBook resource that explores best practices for using conferencing tools for teaching and learning. Adaptable strategies and activity “recipes” for using various conferencing tools, including, Zoom, BigBlueButton, and Microsoft Teams.
Getting to Know Your International Students
Have you ever wondered how you can support international students effectively in your class? By learning about the prior educational experiences of many international students, you will be equipped to help them transition well into the Canadian educational system.
Writing Beyond the University
Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing extends the burgeoning scholarly conversation regarding the role of writing in lifelong and lifewide learning. The collection introduces higher education faculty, staff, and administrators to research on how all members of a campus community can prepare learners to be effective writers beyond the university, in personal, professional, and civic contexts.
What Teaching Looks Like
What Teaching Looks Like delves into higher education—the challenges faced by students, faculty, staff, and administrators alike from all variety of institution types and across campus sectors—in a way that has not been done before. By weaving together a unique collection of documentary photographs of modern teaching and learning at US colleges and universities with research-based discussion of the state of engaged learning, the book teaches readers to think through and with photographs in new ways, offering insights and perspectives with the potential to change teaching, administrative, and support practices for the better
Writing About Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education offers detailed guidance to scholars at all stages—experienced and new academics, graduate students, and undergraduates—regarding how to write about learning and teaching in higher education.
Pedagogical Partnerships
Pedagogical Partnerships and its accompanying resources provide step-by-step guidance to support the conceptualization, development, launch, and sustainability of pedagogical partnership programs in the classroom and curriculum. This definitive guide is written for faculty, students, and academic developers who are looking to use pedagogical partnerships to increase engaged learning, create more equitable and inclusive educational experiences, and reframe the traditionally hierarchical structure of teacher-student relationships.
Assessment Design/Redesign
Authentic Design: Principles, Personas & Paradigms
This WordPress site helps you to discover how story is used in authentic course design and assessments. Learning story paradigm, personas and principles will enable you to integrate authentic assessments in your course design.
Grading Strategies
This WordPress site provides and overview into the role of grading in pedagogy and assessment, choose efficient grading strategies, distinguish between rubric types, and use Moodle tools for grading.
Academic Integrity
This WordPress site contains resources for more information on how to incorporate integrity in your class and what to do if you notice a possible academic integrity breach. Note that TL Commons supports Academic Integrity, but these resources were created and are maintained by the Academic Integrity Unit.
Assessment Design Guidelines
The resource provides specific guidance for instructors on designing assessments. Specific guidance includes constructive alignment of assessments, developing assignment instructions, and rubrics with transparent expectations.
Alternatives to Final Exam
The blog discusses evolving assessment methods in higher education, emphasizing innovative approaches like oral exams, digital portfolios, and project-based assessments, to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.
Competency-based Assessments
The following links direct to TL Commons’ blogs supporting faculty designing and implementing competency-based assessments and evaluations, supporting student demonstration of learning through non-traditional grading styles (NCG/MAS):
Academic Integrity
An interactive approach to conveying the values of academic integrity, clarifying the meaning of plagiarism, and introducing the basics of citations, quoting and paraphrasing
Inclusive Practices
Ensuring Accessible Course Materials
This course, adapted from Thompson Rivers University, covers key accessibility and design considerations for the creation and presentation of course materials, particularly digital resources. It includes modules on organizing course materials, making media accessible, and using Moodle and WordPress effectively. The focus is on creating inclusive and accessible digital content to enhance the learning experience for all students.
Technology Accessibility to Support Learning
This WordPress site offers KPU faculty and instructional staff tools and strategies to enhance technology accessibility, ensuring more equitable learning experiences for students. It highlights the importance of accessible learning technologies in supporting all learners to meet course outcomes.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL Your Pathway Courses)
The UDL Your Pathway Courses resource provides strategies and guidelines for instructors to design inclusive and accessible pathway courses, ensuring that all students can engage and succeed in their learning. This four-page guide specifically supports instructors teaching Pathway courses by offering practical UDL strategies to enhance student progression and learning success through course and assessment design.
Anti-Racism Tool Kit
The KPU Anti-Racism Pedagogy Tool Kit, available on KPU’s Pressbooks platform, is a comprehensive resource designed to support educators in creating more inclusive and equitable learning environments. It provides practical strategies and tools for addressing and dismantling racism and inequity within educational settings. It includes 11 practical tools providing guidance on implementing anti-racist teaching and course design practices and establishing supportive classroom environments. By utilizing this resource, educators can gain valuable insights and actionable steps to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their teaching practices.
Inclusive Pedagogies
Building on the principles explored in Foundations of Intercultural Teaching, this resource introduces educators to educational strategies that can foster more inclusive, equitable, and just classroom environments.
The Power of Partnership
The Power of Partnership celebrates the nuance and depth of student-faculty partnerships in higher education and illustrates the many ways that partnership—the equitable collaboration among students, staff, and faculty in support of teaching and learning—has the potential to transform lives and institutions.
Place-based Learning through an Indigenous Lens (Under Development)
Curriculum Review & Design
Learning Outcomes
This WordPress site includes resources that provide an in-depth exploration of the theory, variety, creation and application of learning outcomes, a one-page resource outlining a high-level look at learning outcomes, a description of a workshop on learning outcomes and where to go for more information.
Curriculum Mapping – A Comprehensive Approach
This WordPress site includes resources that provide an in-depth exploration of curriculum, the process of mapping a curriculum and curriculum maps; a one page resource outlining a high level look at curriculum mapping, a description of a workshop on Curriculum mapping and where to go for more information.
Curriculum Review for Program Review
This WordPress site includes resources created to support program review teams to complete chapter 1 & 2 of the self-study report. The asynchronous resource found here intends to augment the associated workshop offered to programs to write the curriculum review portions of program review.
Guidance on Quality Curriculum Assessment
This WordPress site includes resources that are directed at curriculum reviewers at such as faculty curriculum committees, Senate Standing Committee on Curriculum and other departments that are involved in supporting faculty programs with curriculum support. The asynchronous resource found here intends to augment the associated on-demand workshops offered to curriculum reviewers at KPU and will be useful to faculty, leaders and committee members.
Open Education
Open Educational Practices
This WordPress site features a number of toolkits designed to support you at every stage of your open education journey. Whether you’re new and eager to learn, familiar and seeking resources to enhance engagement, or advanced and aiming to deepen your practice, our curated resources are here to assist you!
Foundations in Open Education
This course offers an in-depth exploration of Open Education, Open Pedagogy, and Open Educational Resources (OERs). Participants will discover various methods to incorporate Open Education principles into their teaching practices, promoting inclusivity, accessibility, and innovation in higher education.
What is Open?
This course provides an opportunity to delve into the core principles of the Open Education movement. Participants will learn to distinguish between Open Educational Resources (OERs) and free online resources, and explore how to integrate Open Pedagogy characteristics into their teaching practices.
New Faculty Support
New Faculty Orientation to Teaching & Learning
With new faculty members in mind, this course offers a comprehensive overview of the essential components of being an instructor at KPU. This self-paced course is divided into six modules: teaching and learning supports for faculty, key KPU policies, an introduction to KPU’s learning technologies, course design fundamentals, strategies for supporting student success, and professional development opportunities. By completing this course, instructors will gain the foundational knowledge and access to resources needed to confidently begin their teaching journey.
TL Commons’ Resource Buffet
This course invites participants to explore a variety of topics by engaging with the Teaching & Learning Commons’ resources. Instructors can review the available supports to enhance their teaching and learning journey. The course is structured into three sections: appetizers (webinars), entrees (podcasts), and digestifs (blogs), each offering numerous links to instructional learning opportunities.