A new section under “Essentials” has been developed sharing some recommended resources (books, podcasts, videos, websites and blogs etc.) for post-secondary educators. Who is doing the recommending? Well, they are Liesel’s recommendations (Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation) based on decades of reading and reviewing books for instructors and …
As of January 2024, North Island College is now using Kaltura Virtual Classroom for all instructional activity (online courses, blended courses and virtual office hours). Every Brightspace course has its own persistent and automatic virtual environment. Instructors and students can create their own persistent rooms for non-Brightspace course use via …
Instructors require four kinds of knowledge to be an effective educator. College and university instructors most often come to the position without strengths in all four knowledge areas. When instructors are building their professional development plan they should consider a balanced approach of all four components and a variety of …
Full Information Page Course Feedback Surveys Introduction: NIC has an institutional survey that is an informal, formative set of course and instructor questions aimed to provide instructors with confidential feedback on their courses at the mid-point and end-point time periods. Course feedback is about gathering input on what is going …
Creating a Better User Experience for the B.C. Open Collection Link to IMPROVED BC Open Collection: https://collection.bccampus.ca/ BCcampus has created a better user experience for their fantastic open collection of teaching and learning resources. From the article intro: If you’re an educator in B.C.’s post-secondary system, chances are you’ve heard …
As of January 1, 2023, NIC is instituting a 2-year Brightspace course and Kaltura video retention process to protect and streamline course and student data as well as provide organized and efficient collections of courses and videos. This also applies to BlueJeans recordings of online classes. Per a NIC Policy …
“Technology Integrations into Brightspace” NIC’s Approval Process for Technology Integrations for Digital Learning Environments (Brightspace) There is a new decision-making process involved in approving a third-party technology integration (e.g., a textbook publisher, web tool, social media platform) for connection into NIC’s digital learning environment – Brightspace. Instructor requests for integrating/adding …
North Island College has set up Brightspace to allow students and instructors to add in their pronouns, preferred names and traditional names so that we can respectfully communicate with each other in the digital world. Pronouns Log in to Brightspace at https://mycourses.nic.bc.ca Click on your personal menu (where your name …
For many of you the term is coming to a close, classes have ended, will be ending soon or you are winding down a recent unit or module. One of the most impactful books I have ever read is called, “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher” by Stephen Brookfield. The first …
Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning is a podcast hosted by Columbia University’s CTL Executive Director, Catherine Ross. Check out the URL to see all seasons listed, summaries, transcripts and topics! Dead ideas are persistent myths about teaching and learning that instructors believe and use! Check this great podcast series …
