Brightspace (NIC’s new digital learning environment) continues with all Spring 2022 courses. There are a number of ways NIC students are receiving support for this new platform. You can help too. Email students notifying their courses are in Brightspace at https://mycourses.nic.bc.ca Make a short video tour of your Brightspace course …
An outstanding 2022 resource free for all instructors! URL: https://hiddencurriculum.ca/ Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum is a cross-institution, cross-sector, and cross-disciplinary initiative that aims to support a learner’s academic, personal, and professional development. This website includes various skills-based content and resources that educators can embed in their courses. Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum will …
Instructors are discipline experts who keep their knowledge current and application methods up to date through ongoing professional learning experiences in their respective subject areas. Instructors are also post-secondary educators teaching adult learners. Instructors are always learning how to be better educators while enhancing their experiences and knowledge of core …
There are a number of Brightspace Quick Start Sessions scheduled for NIC instructors (but also support staff and employees) to be informed about the steps to take before you get going in Brightspace. Not every week will there be a session and not always will an instructor be able to …
Kaltura Making Copies of ALL NIC Employee and Student Videos Between March 7 – 21: NIC Continues the Move of Kaltura Media from UBC to Montreal Who is impacted? All employees and students who use Blackboard or Brightspace’s Kaltura My Media and/or Media Gallery or NIC’s MediaSpace at https://video.nic.bc.ca …
A new resource (checklist of questions) has been uploaded to the Course Design > Planning section > Textbooks: Questions to Consider It outlines some questions to consider when looking at your textbook or if you are considering using a textbook. If you’d like to access the resource in a PDF: …
Two resources have been created for instructors to help them with possible student or instructor absences. Students and instructors may be absent from the learning experience for a number of reasons (health, self-isolation, parental care, weather, travel barriers etc.). We need to plan courses to be flexible and easily accommodate …
Brightspace by the company, D2L (Kitchener, Ontario), is NIC’s digital learning environment replacing Blackboard Learn for Fall 2022. Phase one of the implementation involves 40 faculty (150 courses/550 students) using Brightspace in the Winter 2022 term (those same 150 courses will be turned off in Blackboard Learn). Starting May, 2022 …
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. It’s been quite the wild ride this year with many changes and challenges, but hopefully some encouraging experiences and moments of excitement. …
To: NIC Instructors The Teach Anywhere website is here to support you this year. Updated content and new resources have been recently added! Let me share some of the top pages you might find helpful: Blackboard Learn: Instructor DIY– Ten most requested helpdesk ticket topics you can do on your …
