BCcampus supports British Columbia’s public post-secondary institutions in meeting their students’ learning needs through innovative and effective uses of educational technologies. Many of these videos are related to events and interviews to support BCcampus professional learning, a service area within BCcampus that supports the development and sharing of teaching and learning practices, and several collaborative community networks.
This story was shared during the University College and Institute Professional Developers spring meeting at University of Victoria. It highlights the value of communities of practice, open educational resources, and open practices. - Karen Belfer, Dean, Centre for Instructional Development, Vancouver Community College - Mary Burgess, Director, Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies - Interviewed by Sylvia Currie, Acting Director, Professional Learning at BCcampus. Mentioned in this i...
3 May, 2012 - Making Your Moodle Mobile Description: Moodle 2.1 introduced the ability to set different themes to be used when different devices are detected. Moodle 2.2 now has a standard theme as part of the core which was designed for smartphone and tablet browsers screens. This webinar is part of the Moodle 2 Series sponsored and facilitated by Lambda Solutions and BCcampus. http://mss.bccampus.ca/course/view.php?id=88
5 April, 2012 - Moodle 2.x - Completion Tracking Completion tracking can be used to report on the students progress in a course or if a student has met the recommended prerequisites of a course. The Completion tracking feature works on two levels of Course Completion and Activity Completion. This webinar is part of the Moodle 2 Series sponsored and facilitated by Lambda Solutions and BCcampus. http://mss.bccampus.ca/course/view.php?id=88
A student panel discussion organized by students, for faculty. Information about the event, resources, archives, and the forum discussion can be found here: http://scope.bccampus.ca/course/view.php?id=366
Video introducing the new Wordpress/Buddypress online community for the Educational Technology Users Group, British Columbia. This community is for post secondary educational professionals in BC. Visit us at http://etug.ca Script: Leva Lee and Hilda Anggraeni Camera: Hilda Anggraeni and Diana Chan Video editing: Hilda Anggraeni Voice: Leva Lee
This is a collection of snippets from the Quarterly Field Trip series organized by CPsquare.org and SCoPE. During this field trip we watched and discussed 2 videos together. The discussion was as much about how much we can learn as an outsider looking in, as it was about useful and meaningful ways to look at CoPs together as a group.
The last session of the day —E-Portfolio Story —was a tale told by Lesley McCannell and Meg Goodine of Kwantlen Polytechnic University. They shared their experiences with implementing a program-wide e-portfolio system at Kwantlen using Mahara. Leslie and Meg talked about the curriculum change required to incorporate e-portfolios into each course, the challenges associated with supporting technology that is in “pilot phase”, the student and faculty reactions and the lessons learned. Samples of ...
Organizing information has never been more demanding but making a commitment to a solution has overheads. Lynda and Jason shared their experimentation and strategies in using Evernote. Many features of Evernote were explored on various platforms – mobile, tablet and web. They illustrated Evernote’s features such as email forwarding and web clipping; also best practices such as “heap” strategy for reducing number of notebooks and ability to evolve tagging. With the help of Evernote, sharing and...
In the third session, B.J. Eib and Mary Burgess from Royal Roads University provided an engaging mix of presentation, conversation and group work. They shared RRU’s current Faculty Development plan and the strategies that brought it about. Throughout this session, we talked in small groups on our experiences with mindful faculty development journeys or ”bad trips”! Mary & B.J. finished by sharing some great tools and tips developed for their Faculty Development Program.
Institutional Updates During ETUG Fall 2011 Workshop