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.

KPU is a leading adopter of open educational resources (OER) and home to Canada’s first Zero Textbook Cost programs.

Watch this asynchronous session for an introduction to Open Education and to learn:

• Tips for putting Open Education into practice 
• Supports at KPU that may enable your engagement with Open Education

Interested in how ePortfolios can enhance student experiences or how they can be used as an assessment tool?

ePortfolios can provide an engaging, highly student-centered experience, and can foster collaboration, reflection, emotional intelligence, and deeper learning. ePortfolios provide students with a personalized digital space that can be used to curate a collection of artifacts that documents their skills and abilities over time. 

From an instructional perspective, ePortfolios can be used as an assessment and feedback tool and can be used to assess the curriculum. This webinar will introduce faculty to the purposes, benefits, and methods of evaluating using ePortfolios, and contains student testimonials which reinforce the value of using this incredible tool. Faculty will additionally be provided with open resources for supporting the use of ePortfolios in their practice.

Recording media with Kaltura Capture.

This is Part 2 of the Kaltura workshop series. This self-paced webinar is for those getting started with recording their own media content. This workshop will give you an introduction to the Kaltura Capture recorder application. 

By the end of this session, you will be able to identify the importance of asynchronous media delivery compared to synchronous, identify tools and best practices for your video and audio recording setup, how-to record a talking head video using Kaltura Capture, how-to recording a PowerPoint presentation using Kaltura Capture, and how-to record an audio clip to provide feedback using Kaltura Capture.

In this pre-recorded webinar, faculty will be introduced to the educational conferencing tool BigBlueButton (BBB), which can be set up within KPU Moodle course sites for easy access. BBB can be used to hold virtual office hours, host synchronous sessions, and more! 

This pre-recorded webinar will provide instructions on setting up a BigBlueButton space in Moodle and provide an overview of this tool's basic features and functionality.