Fall 2024

Friday, November 1 (3:10-3:40) Presenters Session Description As Generative AI tools become increasingly prevalent in educational settings, it is essential to foster a collaborative approach involving educators and students in exploring the ethical implications of these new technologies. This proposal highlights a recent initiative where learning specialists, a classroom instructor, and students worked together to…

Friday, November 1 (2:00-3:00) Presenters Session Description This interactive session will introduce participants to the Association for Learning Technology’s Framework for Ethical Learning Technology (FELT). Through collaborative discussions, we’ll explore how this framework can inform decision-making processes when selecting, implementing, and using educational technologies. If you’re able to, please review ALT’s Framework for Ethical Learning…

Friday, November 1 (1:30-2:00) Presenters Session Description We’ve all seen it, especially this year. AI is trying harder than ever to get into our ed tech. Recently, the Information and Privacy Commisioner in Ontario concluded that McMaster University’s implementation of AI proctoring and lockdown browser was not compliant with FIPPA. It was recommended that McMaster conduct Algorithmic…

Friday, November 1 (1:00-1:30) Presenters Session Description This 20 minute presentation will explore, through design experience with online course development, rather than specific tools, the thoughtful and often unsung considerations and steps needed in order to develop rich, engaging and accessible content. Like a “physical” body, the building of an e-learning course is composed of…

Recordings are available now for the Spring workshop sessions. You can browse through the Navigating Ethics and EdTech schedule and select the presentation title to find the recording, slides and transcripts for each session. For those that like to binge you can see them in a playlist at the BC Campus Kaltura site.

Friday, November 1 (10:00-10:30) Presenter Shaya Golparian is an Education Developer, TA Development at the University of British Columbia Session Description In this session I will introduce an online teaching tool on accessibility in the classroom. I will lay out the steps I took in order to make this WordPress resource accessible, and I will…

Presenter Licheng Li is a student at Thompson Rivers University Session Description In response to the 2020 worldwide COVID-19, most higher education institutions pivoted to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT). This sudden transition urged the integration and growth in educational technology adoption even though issues in relation to online privacy and surveillance were minimally understood by…

Friday November 1, 9:10 – 9:20 Presenters Session Description In 2021, the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills (the Ministry) initiated the Digital Learning Advisory Committee (DLAC) to engage the post-secondary system to better understand and support the use of digital learning models in post-secondary education in British Columbia. The collaborative efforts of DLAC…

Friday November 1, (9:20-9:30) Presenter Josie Gray is the Manager, Open Education at BCcampus Session Description As part of the provincial Digital Learning Strategy, the Shared Educational Resources and Technology (SERT) Initiative is looking at how to support and sustain provincial shared curriculum and educational technology services. In this session, the SERT project manager will discuss…

Friday, November 1 (11:40-12:00) Presenters Session Description While educational technology innovation offers exciting new possibilities, it also raises ethical questions around accessibility, sustainability, and responsible use. The field has, however, struggled to engage with these types of complex questions and the uncomfortable tensions they generate. Considering educational technology, not as a toolset but instead as…

Friday, November 1 (10:40-11:40) Presenters Session Description This workshop provides a space to pause and reflect on one of the ethical concerns of generative AI: the environmental impacts and sustainability of these tools. What, as individual users, can we do if anything? What can we do as institutions? We will briefly review the environmental costs…

 While innovations in educational technologies offer exciting new possibilities, they also raise ethical questions around accessibility, sustainability, and responsible use. At our online fall workshop, we will explore the complex intersection of educational technology and these critical topics as we navigate the path towards more equitable and sustainable learning environment Join us to explore how…

Friday, November 1 9:00-4:00 | Online (Zoom) Time Session 9:00-9:10 Andy Sellwood & Jamie Drozda | Welcome and Land Acknowledgement 9:10-9:20 Arielle Andrews & Christina Hendricks | The Digital Learning Strategy Ethical Educational Technology Toolkit 9:20-9:30 Josie Gray | Ethics and Values in the Shared Educational Resources and Technology (SERT) Initiative As part of the…

Save the Date and Call for Proposals Call for proposals  While innovations in educational technologies offer exciting new possibilities, they also raise ethical questions around accessibility, sustainability, and responsible use. At our online fall workshop, we will explore the complex intersection of educational technology and these critical topics as we navigate the path towards more equitable…