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Member Profile – Jamie Drozda, Coordinator of Educational Technologies
I work at Thompson Rivers University in the Learning Technology & Innovations (LTI) department as a Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University, I’m passionate about developing and implementing educational technologies that are user-friendly and inspire and engage learners in meaningful ways. As a part of LTI, I am energized by our team’s approach to…
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Educational Technology Users Group Announces New Stewardship Committee Co-Chairs
With the start of the new year, we welcome new leadership for the Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG) stewardship committee. The new co-chairs are Jamie Drozda of Thompson Rivers University and Kar-On Lee of the University of British Columbia. Vice co-chairs Melanie Latham, Thompson Rivers University, and Rie Namba, University of British Columbia, will support…
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[Spring Workshop 2025] Call for Presenters
Show Me How You Did It: Getting Back to Hands-On in EdTech May 22-23, 2025 We invite proposals from educators, instructional designers, educational technologists, librarians, and other professionals dedicated to exploring, innovating, and improving teaching and learning with technology. If you are passionate about sharing your ideas, strategies, or experiences, we encourage you to submit…
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[Spring Workshop 2025] Workshop Description
Show Me How You Did It: Getting Back to Hands-On in EdTech About the Workshop Join us for the ETUG Spring Workshop 2025: “Show Me How You Did It: Getting Back to Hands-On in EdTech”. Like all ETUG events, the spring workshop will be a dynamic and interactive event, tailored for professionals in education technology support…
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Member Profile – Lauren Stedman, Faculty Development Support Associate
I work at Royal Roads University in the Centre for Teaching & Educational Technologies (CTET) as the Faculty Development Support Associate. I coordinate and facilitate CTET workshops for faculty and staff and provide general faculty support. I’ve worked in the CTET team for the past 5 years. I love how my day swings from purely…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Collaborative Exploration of Ethical AI Use: A Case on Critical Classroom Practices
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Exploring FELT: A Framework for Ethical Learning Technology
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Protecting Students from AI with Algorithmic Impact Assessments
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] E-natomy: The skeleton of designing a healthy E-course
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Navigating Ethics and EdTech – Recordings Available
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.
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Self guided tool for redesigning classroom activities for accessibility
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Students’ perceptions on online privacy when using online tools
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] The Digital Learning Strategy Ethical Educational Technology Toolkit
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Ethics and Values in the Shared Educational Resources and Technology (SERT) Initiative
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…
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Digital Pedagogy Lab: February 18-20, 2025
The Digital Pedagogy Lab is more than just another educational conference. It’s a dynamic, cohort-based community of practice, dedicated to inspiring and guiding educators to rethink how they engage with technology in education. The 2025, in-person event is hosted by BCcampus in partnership with Jesse Stommel and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Event details Event offerings Who should attend? This event…
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From the ETUG Archives
A colleague recently shared thoughts around Artificial Intelligence and Indigenous knowledge, discussing issues around remediation between orality and digitally-generated AI output, and I remembered this excellent keynote made by Jennifer Wemigwans at the Spring ETUG 2021 workshop. “A digital bundle is a very unique space. It’s a unique space on the internet because it is…
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Institutional Report from TRU
Upcoming Conferences at Thompson Rivers University Teaching Practices Colloquium (TPC) TRU faculty are busy preparing for the 21st Annual Teaching Practices Colloquium which will be held on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. This year’s theme is Engagement in Postsecondary Education and is structured around several interconnected sub themes that reflect current priorities in higher education: The…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Building a competency framework for the ethics in EdTech
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Climate Conscious AI Use: Wrestling with Environmental Impacts
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Session Post Template
Friday, November 1 (Enter session time here) Presenters Session Description Description Session Recording Session Materials and Files
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Vancouver Community College (VCC) Institutional Guidelines on Generative AI in Teaching & Learning
Emily Simpson, Centre for Teaching, Learning & Research VCC released its Generative AI in Teaching and Learning guidelines this September to help instructors navigate using AI tools ethically and effectively in their work, while seeking to minimize the risks in these tools. The guidelines highlight the connection of this work to VCC’s core values: Similar…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Navigating Ethics and EdTech: Building Responsible Learning Environments
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…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Navigating Ethics and EdTech Schedule
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…
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Institutional Report from RRU
Here at Royal Roads University we’ve been simultaneously pursuing opportunities and dealing with challenges. Like many universities, RRU is dealing with low enrollment numbers while at the same time completing a new campus in Langford and developing plans for a donated property on Salt Spring Island. At the same time we’ve been refining our ed…
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[Fall Workshop 2024] Navigating Ethics and EdTech: Building Responsible Learning Environments – Call for Proposals
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…
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Institutional Report from BCIT
Submitted by Bonnie Johnston I’m an Instructional Development Consultant in the Learning and Teaching Centre at BCIT. E-learning has a huge role at BCIT and we are one of the largest distance learning institutions in the country. We use the learning management system Brightspace and we have recently transitioned from using Bongo, a video conferencing…
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[Spring Workshop 2024] There’s too Much Tech and I Don’t Know Where to Start! Peer Sharing as Professional Development
Thursday May 9, 11:10-11:35 Session Description Do you feel overwhelmed with the number of professional development opportunities and learning resources available online on how to improve your digital literacy? Are you not sure where or how to start incorporating digital literacy into your teaching or professional work? Are you simply curious about how to infuse…
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British Columbia Open Education Community
There is a new ad hoc community that has begun focusing on open education, the British Columbia Open Education Community (BCOEC). If you have an interest in open education in higher education in British Columbia and the Yukon, either as an educator, student, or an administrator, there is a monthly BC Open Education Community check-in.…
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[Spring Workshop 2024] Digital Literacy Today – Recordings Available
Recordings are available now for the Spring workshop sessions. You can browse through the Digital Literacy Today 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.
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Past Presentations: Generative AI
At ETUG we’ve been recording most of our Fall and Spring Workshop sessions since the Fall of 2019. There’s a lot of information spread across several themes in this collection. And there’s lots worth diving back into. Here are the presentations that relate to generative artificial intelligence. John Born Sound by AI: AI-Driven Sound in…
