This page contains a listing of professional learning opportunities beyond North Island College including conferences, workshops, webinars and other learning experiences for faculty. Kennesaw State University keeps a fairly up to date directory of many teaching and learning conferences.
BCcampus Offerings | ongoing
- Theme: Various Topics
- Cost: Many are free, some low cost
- Learn More: https://bccampus.ca/events/
innovations in Education conference | December 5-6, 2024
- Theme: Creating Belonging Through Inclusive and Accessible Learning Experiences
- Location: Online via McMaster University
- Cost: $50
- Learn More: Zoom Events Page
DIGITAL PEDAGOG LAB | February 18 – 20, 2025
- Theme: Critical digital pedagogies
- Location: In-person at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Cost: 550$ before Nov 30, $750 after
- Learn More: https://dpl.bccampus.ca/
Pedagogy without borders: New frontiers of teaching and technology | February 19, 2025
- Theme: Technology
- Location: Online
- Cost: Free
- Learn More: https://pedagogywithoutborders.sched.com/about
Ai cademy: Canada Summit for Post-Secondary EduCAtion | March 6-7, 2025
- Theme: Artificial Intelligence
- Location: Calgary, Alberta
- Cost: $1000 CDN
- Learn More: https://site.pheedloop.com/event/HESAaicademy/home
VCC Teaching, Learning, and Research Symposium | March TBD, 2025
- Theme: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://ctlr.vcc.ca/teaching-and-learning/teaching-learning-and-research-symposium/
American Association of Community Colleges conference | APRIL TBD, 2025
- Theme: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Cost: https://aaccannual.com/fees.cfm
- Learn More: https://aaccannual.com/
conference on general education, pedagogy and assessment | april TBD, 2025
- Location: TBD
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://www.aacu.org/event/conference-on-general-education-pedagogy-and-assessment
National Great Teachers Movement
- Theme: Various Topics
- Location: Various all over US and Canada
- Learn More: https://ngtm.net/
Online learning consortium (OLC) Innovate | april TBD, 2025
- Theme: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/attend-2024/innovate/
Learning and the Brain – Conference – Future-Ready Brains | april TBD, 2025
- Theme: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Learn More: https://www.learningandthebrain.com/conference-512/future-ready-brains/
University of Calgary Conference on post-secondary learning and teaching | April TBD, 2025
- Theme: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Cost: https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/conference/registration
- Learn More: https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/conference
15th Annual University of waterloo Teaching and learning conference | may TBD, 2025
- Location: TBD University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://uwaterloo.ca/uw-teaching-and-learning-conference/
ETUG (BC Educational Tech Users Group) | may TBD, 2025
- Theme: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://etug.ca/spring-workshop-2024-digital-literacy-today-save-the-date/
Thompson-okanagan teaching and learning conference | may 13 + 14, 2025
- Theme: Scholarly Teaching and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Evidencing our Practice
- Location: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
- Cost: Early-bird $50
- Learn More: https://totlc.opened.ca/
Faculty Development Summer Institute | May TBD, 2025
- Theme: Explorations of Active Learning in Higher Education
- Location: University of Prince Edward Island, PEI
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://sites.google.com/upei.ca/event/home
The 2025 Teaching Professor Annual conference | June TBD, 2025
- Location: TBD
- Cost: https://www.magnapubs.com/teaching-professor-conference/pricing-registration/
- Learn More: https://www.magnapubs.com/teaching-professor-conference/
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education | June 10-13, 2025
- Theme: TBD
- Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Cost: Coming Soon
- Learn More: https://www.stlhe.ca/conferences/2025-stlhe-conference/
national higher education teaching conference 2024 | June 2025 TBD
- Theme: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://nhetc.acue.org/
grading conference – Higher Ed Focus | June TBD, 2025
- Theme: Grading
- Location: Online (8 am – 3 pm PST daily)
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://thegradingconference.com/
D2L FUSION – brightspace | JuLY 21 – 23, 2025
- Theme: Create Your Learning Moment at Fusion
- Location: Savannah, Georgia
- Cost: approx. $850 USD for In-Person, Free for On-Demand
- Learn More: https://www.d2l.com/fusion/
2024 conference on engaged learning | JuLY TBD, 2025
- Location: Elon University, Elon, North Carolina
- Cost: $150 USD
- Learn More: https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/conferences/2024-conference-on-engaged-learning/
Improving University Teaching | JuLY TBD, 2025
- Theme: Foundations for the Future (50th Conferences) including topics: Foundational Concepts, Higher Education’s Purpose, Engaging Students, Advances in Assessment, Generative AI, Improving Institutional Professional Development, Future Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Research
- Location: University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Wisconsin + Online
- Cost: $225 Online + $475 in person
- Learn More: https://iutconference.com/
Health professions Educators Conference | August TBD, 2025
- Location: TBD
- Cost: $TBD
- Learn More: https://www.magnapubs.com/health-professions-educators-conference/
ITLC Conference on advancing teaching and learning | October TBD, 2025
- Location:
- Cost: $585 US
- Learn More: https://www.lillyconferences-mi.com/
Regional LIlly (Teaching and Learning) Conferences | 2024
- Learn More: https://www.lillyconferences.com/
teaching professor online Conference | octobeR TBD, 2025
- Location: October 22 – 24 all online
- Cost: $499 US
- Learn More: https://www.magnapubs.com/tpoc/
Educause Annual Conference | october TBD, 2025
- Location:
- Cost: https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference/registration
- Learn More: https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference/2024
International society for the scholarship of teaching and learning – ISSOTL24 | october TBD, 2025
- Theme: Recognizing Impact and Reinvigorating Practice (International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
- Location: Indiana University Bloomington, French Lick Resort
- Cost: TBD
- Learn More: https://issotl.com/issotl24/
Wayi Wah! Building Stronger Education Systems Through Indigenous-Informed Pedagogies and Anti-Racist Education | November TBD, 2025
- Theme: Indigenous Learning
- Location: Royal Roads University, Vancouver Island
- Time: 10 am – 2 pm (includes free lunch)
- Cost: Free! to first 200 people
- Learn More: https://bccampus.ca/event/wayi-wah-building-stronger-education-systems-through-indigenous-informed-pedagogies-and-anti-racist-education/
Online learning consortium (OLC) accelerate | November TBD, 2025
- Theme: Accelerating Online Learning Worldwide
- Location: Orlando, Florida
- Cost: $1175
- Learn More: https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/attend-2024/accelerate/