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Technologies

Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

Coming: NIC guidelines, course outline language, training materials for instructors and students on GenAI, ways to use, prompt examples, risks and ethics etc.

Brightspace

Resources on how to use NIC’s digital learning environment – Brightspace.

Kaltura Video

Resources on how to use Kaltura Video – NIC’s video capture, editing and storage solution (like YouTube) and how to embed into Brightspace courses.

Kaltura Virtual Classroom

Resources on how to use Kaltura Virtual Classroom – NIC’s web conferencing platform for all instructional uses (no Zoom or Teams permitted for courses).

WordPress

BC hosted and free WordPress platform for building own portfolios and websites from BC’s Open Educational Technology Collaborative (OpenETC) for all BC post-secondary educators and students.

Technology Troubleshooting Tips

This PDF shares the common issues with browser-based technologies and how to resolve the access issues and other errors.

At North Island College, faculty and students have a collection of three key learning technologies to use for teaching and learning (Brightspace, Kaltura Virtual Classroom and Kaltura Video). WordPress is a fourth platform that is mainly supported via the OpenETC (Open Education Technology Collaborative) a community of users in BC. 

Another way of looking at learning technologies is through the design of a course (the four quadrants of activities that instructors and students work in) laid on top of the NIC-supported learning technologies, those by the OpenETC and those beyond that are not supported but could be potentially useful.  This rubric is a helpful in making decisions about which tool or platform to use – PDF

  • Learning Technologies for the NIC Student Learning Experience: A Suite of Tools and Platforms (2024) – PDF