The Learning Design domain provides an overview of important concepts related to effective course design and principles of adult learning. The modules within this domain explore foundational pedagogical theories and frameworks that support supportive and engaging course design. Participants will understand constructive alignment and examine policies and procedures that must be considered when designing and delivering courses at KPU. Pre-designed Moodle course templates are introduced and made available to participants for designing inviting, engaging, and effective digital learning environments in Moodle. Additional learning modules that are recommended include: Inviting Spaces: Building Engagement in your Online Courses, Introduction to Open Pedagogy, and Appreciative Inquiry for Faculty.

After you register into this course you will shortly receive a confirmation email. Within the confirmation email you will find the link that takes you to the course for self-enrolment"

This will have a synchronous session for an hour choose either Oct 21 or 27 in the am must be registered in the module to attend this session, (this also has an asynchronous section)

Are you ready to get innovative in your teaching practice by using a technology that supports effective pedagogy? Do you want to become a facilitation Rockstar? Then come along with the Teaching and Learning Commons on the PebblePad Rollin' Stones Tour starting in January 2021! The PebblePad Rollin' Stones Tour is a low time commitment high reward asynchronous opportunity that will provide a practical introduction to Pebble+ and the mobile app PebblePocket.This series of activities will allow KPU faculty to engage with this platform, learn the basic features actively, and effectively navigate and create in this personally managed, password-protected space. Over nine weeks, for thirty minutes per week, participants will be provided with easy to digest content and activities that will have them well on their way to Rockstar status! Participants will choose what they create and are only limited by their imagination - whether its for professional development, assessment design, or just a showcase of hobbies, the result will be a product to be proud of! The series will be capped off with a showcase competition that participants can choose to enter their Pebble+ creations with the KPU faculty community for a chance to win visa gift cards! Do not miss the bus, the tour bus that is, and join us on the exciting PebblePad Rollin' Stones Tour! 

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Educators want to engage and connect with students virtually, and KPU's three supported conferencing tools can be used to hold office hours, deliver content and feedback, and create opportunities for students to connect, collaborate, discuss and reflect on key course topics and concepts.

In this multi-day virtual workshop offering, faculty will explore exemplar activities that can be used with KPU's three conferencing tools to support best pedagogical practices. 

NOTE: This workshop will focus on pedagogical approaches using KPU's supported conferencing tools and NOT the "how to's." All three 90-min sessions are held online, and each session is hosted in a different tool as follows: Session #1 in BBB, Session #2 in Teams, & Session #3 in Zoom.

If you have not logged into BigBlueButton, Teams or have yet created a KPU Zoom account, you will be required to do so before attending the first session. 

We ask participants to log in 5-10 minutes early to ensure we can start each session on time. We also recommend participants log in with a microphone and, if comfortable, be prepared to use their webcams to participate in all the session activities.

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KPU students and faculty now have access to free Wordpress sites, which opens up lots of interesting pedagogical possibilities. In this session, you’ll hear from one instructor who has been blogging with her students. Learn how blogging can be used in a variety of classes, how to create and scaffold a blogging project, and how to set your students up for success. 

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In many courses, the ability to complete collaborative work in a diverse team is a key learning outcome. Without structured instruction and support, however, many student teams fail to develop effective work processes. 

In this workshop, we will:

• Compare strategies for forming teams. 
• Incorporate explicit teaching on team/group processes into your courses. 
• Facilitate the process of effective team formation and collaborative work in culturally diverse teams. 
• Use strategies to minimize the possibility of social loafing.
• Explore strategies for evaluating team projects.

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This 2-part workshop is designed to provide you with an opportunity to explore foundational principles of intercultural teaching in the context of a supportive peer learning community. 

In this workshop, you will: 

• Describe your cultural and disciplinary identities and explore the impact of these identities on your teaching practice. 
• Define intercultural teaching. 
• Use value frameworks to increase your understanding of learning dynamics in the intercultural classroom.
• Explore global models of education. 
• Explore two theoretical frameworks that can guide your journey of intercultural teaching.
• Begin a personal program of intercultural development. 

Your learning in this workshop will take place through a blend of self-paced asynchronous activities and two synchronous sessions. You will leave the workshop with a personal intercultural teaching development plan to guide the next steps in your journey.

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Do you find that there’s a learning task or assignment in your course where the majority of your students seem to continually struggle? Wondering if there’s a solution to this challenge? 

In this workshop, we will explore a method called Decoding the Disciplines that systematically breaks down the process of helping students move through these learning bottlenecks. You will leave the workshop with a series of next steps to move forward with your students and strategy for building up a collegial network of support through the process. 

FYI - The Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks book is (happily) available as an ebook in our library: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kwantlen-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5210128

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This workshop builds on the principles explored in Foundations of Intercultural Teaching. We will explore how our implicit expectations about teaching and learning processes can create barriers for students and explore shifts to create a more equitable learning environment for all students. 

Through a blend of asynchronous and synchronous learning, you will: 

• Reflect on the ways in which cultural expectations and personal histories shape expectations of students’ skills and prior knowledge.
• Identify the academic literacies/skills required to successfully achieve the learning objectives of a course/assignment. 
• Identify strategies to find out student academic experiences. 
• Practice strategies for adjusting content delivery and “making the implicit explicit.”
• Redesign an assignment to include scaffolded skills development. 

Prerequisite: Foundations of Intercultural Teaching or previous ITP

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This workshop provides support towards KPU's Vision 2023 goal to "embrace all cultures and promote a renewed, authentic approach to Indigenization". The session will be facilitated by KPU Library's Indigenous Engagement and Subject Liaison. She will share how to integrate asynchronous video instruction on the respectful use of Indigenous information with the Indigenous Information Literacy video playlist; add special topic support through the Indigenous Studies guide for areas such as Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous literature, and more. There will be Ample time for discussion to help generate ideas for optimal classroom use.

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In this workshop, participants will learn the "who", "what", and "why" of Open Pedagogy (OP) and then have an opportunity to explore OP options and ideas that may work in their teaching environments. Break-out groups and spontaneous brainstorming will help direct the workshop activities. Participants should come somewhat prepared with an idea of a course they'd like to infuse with new pedagogical practices that better centre student discovery, expression, and experiences.

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Teaching online and creating an engaging online course experience can be challenging. We are not robots, yet if not carefully planned, online courses can make students and instructors feel less than human, so how can educators create an engaging and "present" experience for their online learners? 

In this 90-minute virtual workshop, KPU faculty and instructional staff will examine how to build engagement in their online courses to enhance their students' learning experiences. Workshop participants will be provided with tips and strategies for building personal connections with their students and creating inviting online spaces.

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This 3-part workshop series will introduce you to KPU’s video platform, Kaltura; a capture tool that allows you to make a screencast of video and audio recordings for your course and using video quiz to engage your students with formative assessments. Media is an excellent way to build engagement and share content. Also, the use of video facilitates the learning preferences of a variety of students and supports Universal Design for Learning. In these sessions, you will learn to upload existing video content and how to share it in your Moodle course, you will learn to set up a video assignment and make videos for content delivery and feedback.

At the end of session 1, participants will be able to:

• Identify the fundamentals of using video
• Upload media to their Kaltura My Media in Moodle
• Add media to Moodle course site
• Setup a Kaltura video assignment

At the end of session 2, participants will be able to:

• Identify the importance of asynchronous video/audio delivery compared to synchronous
• Identify tools and best practices for video and audio recording
• Record a video recording using Kaltura Capture
• Record a PowerPoint presentation using Kaltura Capture
• Record an audio recording or feedback using Kaltura Capture

At the end of session 3, participants will be able to:

• Navigate the Kaltura quiz editor
• Identify and create a variety of question types with video quiz
• Engage your students with video quiz and hotspots

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This intensive online learning-intensive experience will provide faculty with a learning opportunity to conceptualize online learning and design an effective and engaging online course. We will provide a space to build relationships with colleagues and learn about digital delivery at the same time. We will guide you through envisioning this new way of teaching, outline the building blocks for a well-developed online course, and show you how to effectively facilitate learning in digital spaces. There will be a daily synchronous session in BBB and daily asynchronous activities in the course site. Participants will work on their own course elements as we move through the week. 

NOTE: All participants will require a working mic, webcam and device to access this course. 

*This is not a “how- to” use technology course, we have other resources to support your development in the arena. 

Modules 

• A New Way of Teaching – Intro to online learning
• Building blocks for online design 
• Where Does All the Time Go? – Re-imagining content and activities in digital spaces
• How Do You Know They are Learning? – Feedback and assessments in digital spaces
• Becoming a Guide On the Side – Facilitating in digital spaces

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Ever wonder about the Lesson option in the Moodle activity menu? Lessons are largely under-utilized in course design, but faculty who do use them, love them, and so do their students. Here’s your chance to find out why…

This series of three, 60-minute, weekly synchronous/asynchronous sessions will introduce participants to the pedagogy and practicality of Moodle Lessons. 

• The What? will provide a brief overview of Moodle Lessons 
• The Why? will focus on the pedagogy of using Moodle Lessons
• The When? will focus on when it is best practice to use Moodle Lessons
• The How? will focus on how to create Moodle Lessons. 

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Set to coincide with the upgrade to Moodle 3.9, this series of three, 60-minute, synchronous sessions will introduce those new to Moodle, the basics of Moodle course site set-up and design. These sessions are designed for those new to Moodle or those who have muddled through on their own during remote delivery and want to improve their competency with the newly updated 3.9 version Moodle. 

• Session 1 will focus on selecting and setting up a course format, and Gradebook. 
• Session 2 will focus on setting up or adapting a course template structure using common resources and activities. 
• Session 3 will focus on setting up groups and group activities.

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No textbook? No problem! In this session you will learn how one faculty member designed a 4th year capstore course so students could become the Content Creators for the course. In 13 weeks, 34 KPU students designed and published an OER that now serves other educators, students, and a broader audience of users. Hear from the instructor on how to structure such an ambitious project (online!) and from the students themselves who participated in the course and co-authored the OER.

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In this workshop we provide a conceptual framework of how to address intercultural education when designing your course. We will also discuss tools and platforms that could support students' engagement, knowledge exchange, and community building.

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In our present online learning environments, we engage with students living in a wide variety of global contexts, many of whom are new to online learning. In this workshop, we will explore processes to enhance inclusivity in online learning environments. 

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to: 

• Consider differences in teacher and student roles across cultures and their impact on online learning.
• Discuss processes to create a shared class “micro-culture.” 
• Adapt a current topic/lesson to incorporate UDL principles. 
• Identify digital literacies needed to successfully meet course learning outcomes.
• Create a student support ecosystem within an online class.

Prerequisite: Inclusive Pedagogies or previous ITP

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Curious about your responsibilities for students with disabilities? Do you have students requiring academic accommodations? Have you received a letter showing accommodations that you don't understand? Do you have concerns about accessibility matters such as test accommodations, audio recording issues, note taking or attendants? Unsure about how to have conversations about disabilities? We invite you to come have conversations about accommodations. Each conversation will be led by Seanna Takacs, accommodation expert in Accessibility Services and a member of the Teaching and Learning Commons team. No question is too big or too small; we hope to see you soon.

January 15, February 3, March 10: 1-2 PM

This is part two on how to use Gradebook in Moodle. This workshop is for those who have used Gradebook before (or completed "Gradebook Fundamentals"), are familiar with the basics of setting up a gradebook, and are looking to incorporate more grading options. This workshop will enable you to navigate the gradebook from different perspectives, adjust grading calculations in unique situations, configure accommodations for special circumstances, and customize your preferences for a much more personalized gradebook.