Leva Lee

Hello Everyone,

My name is Leva Lee and I work for BCcampus, Professional Learning. It is my pleasure to welcome you all and introduce you to Peter Rawsthorne. 

Peter is an innovator, educator and technologist based on Bowen Island, BC. He has done some extensive work in the area of digital badges and we are lucky to have him facilitate this seminar in SCoPE and the 2 webinars on Dec 4th and 11th, as part of the Tuesdays with ETUG Lunch and Learn T.e.l.l. program. For those of you unfamiliar with ETUG, ETUG is the BC Educational Technology Users Group. It is a diverse group of post-secondary educators interested in teaching, learning and technology from BC and beyond.  You can find out more about ETUG at http://etug.ca 

This seminar has had a great start! We hope you all enjoy the next 2 weeks of learning together on digital badges.

Overview of web spaces: LTC, SCoPE etc. - Paul

Context about the existing LTC - Sylvia
Respond & things to note -
- What's there now: what needs to be changed
- Usability; ease of use
- Content: useful

Breakout: Working groups to review and comment

Learning Centres - Updates

Grant Gregson - ECU
- small dept. of one with lots of projects/scope
- possibility for new campus but waiting to hear from govt

Grant Potter/Bill

Brent Calvert/ Eric Christianson CapU
- completed moodle based training
- inventory of courses being done and looking at range of other ed tech
- New director of T & L - Eric Christianson
- looking at media
- key thing is faculty identifies what they will need for PD

Nancy Randall, representing VIU
- VIU in transition - amalgation of T&L centre and ed tech centre (4 yrs ago) and now merging with VIU Online
- New director of T & L - Liesel

Valia S. -
Associate Director of T&L, Univ Victoria
- looking at moving to one LMS - moving courses from Blackboard to Moodle
- provide support for curriculum design
- elluminate - 2 faculties using elive and have license (no campus wide license yet) and looking at open source (big blue button)
- interested in pod/vodcasting but IP issues - would welcome discussion on how others handle

Chris T&L Centre, SFU (Fac. of Appl. Sci & Science)
- cultural shift
Stephanie Interim Director, T&L
- looking at model for the Centre
- outreach activities talking to people
- plans underway for reorganizing
- now reporting to Dean of Continuing Studies (Lifelong Learning)
- lots of change (alot of new Deans and VPs)
- lots of possibility; focus on teaching & learning and working more with faculty
- shift to facilitate/help faculty on T&L
- foster culture of teaching & learning is goal; communicate this
- support pedagogy and strengthen the ed tech

Wendy Burton - UFV
- T&L centre
- creation of position of Assoc. Vice Pres. of Teaching & Research
- T&L, Instruction Media and reports
- focus on teaching not toys
- moving from Blackboard to something else
- looking for options other than web; interested in IP issues and safety
- research on net generation extensively

Alice - Kwantlen
- lots of change; change in leadership
- support instructors

Ron Johnson - BCIT
- T&L has 2 parts: faculty dvmpt and curriculum dvmpt
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Peter Arthur, UBC-Okanagan/Kelowna
- support & lead teaching & learning excellence
- support directly to the Provost office
- focus on faculty transforming first year curriculum and program review
- grad students - taking more of a support/tutor role
- new role for PhD students taking on mentoring role
- June 27 and 28 - International conference on eLearning (Jan. deadline) - research based conference

Lin Langley, Douglas College
- new president and vice pres and lots of new people
- lots of change; new mandate and strategic directions; developed collaboratively including superior quality teaching (and moving courses online)
- review of PD; focus on t & L and curriculum & assessment
- 3 wk faculty orientation (mid-August onward)
- lots of retiring faculty and staff
- divide btw Ed tech and Faculty ; work is quite separate btw both currently
- use of unofficial technologies and not supported; support is sought from peers

Jan Johnson, UBC Vancouver
- merger July 1 T&L and OLT and TeleStudies
- total 65 people with Harry Hubbel and Michelle Lamberson (co-directors)
- review of services offered and linkage to strategic plan
- LMS system review - decided by May next year

Grace D, CNC Prince George
- moved to Moodle & well received
- online courses and f2f supplemented by online (blended)
- MUG (Moodle User Group) started at PG campus
- Jackie Stokes, Dean
- relationship btw. educational pedagogy and selection of appropriate tools and balance -this needs attention and discussion
- accessibility - using onine to provide assessibility but which courses best suited to which technology

Nancy Sly, Camosun College
- report to Associate Vice-P
- newly renovated space in Library/Learning Commons
- new wordpress site
- Six on 6 - interviews with experience faculty on topics related to teaching
- getting another 1 FTE and looking how best to use this position