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✴︎ BlogsInstitutional 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 2024[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 2024[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…
