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FLO Fusion - A Sustainable Approach to Supporting Professional Development with OERs

#OTESSA24

Helena Prins

BCcampus

hprins@bccampus.ca

June 20, 2024

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Session Outline:

  1. What are the professional needs of faculty?
  2. Explore FLO content for professional development
  3. Discuss strategies for OER adoption

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Let’s hear from YOU!

To meet the needs of the current higher education landscape, what are the most pressing topics or skills that need to be included in professional development for faculty?

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Please download and install the Slido app on all computers you use

What are the most pressing topics or skills that need to be included in faculty development?

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Responses from STLHE 2024 Participants

  • Building relationships in online spaces
  • Accessibility & Accessible instruction
  • Inclusive design
  • Indigenization
  • EDI
  • Resources, resources, resources!
  • Assessment redesign
  • How to use AI

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“The findings overwhelmingly suggest that greater technology integration in teaching and learning is expected going forward. Faculty and students want more options for flexible learning without being forced to take only online or only in-person courses. With a desire for more technology supported learning experiences comes concern about faculty skills and know-how to teach in digital environments. Professional development for faculty, as in previous years, remains mostly voluntary and quality assurance is a top operational concern.”�“Faculty burnout and academic integrity are the most pressing teaching and learning challenges at post-secondary institutions across Canada.”

— Pan-Canadian Report on Digital Learning Trends in Canadian PSE, CLDRA, 2023

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POLL: How should we offer professional development opportunities for faculty?

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Please download and install the Slido app on all computers you use

How should we offer professional development for faculty?

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We need professional development that is…

  • FREE if possible
  • Flexible (self-paced, asynchronous, different modalities, etc.)
  • Relevance (related to current trends)
  • Practical (can apply learning in the classroom)

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Our Mandate

BCcampus develops and delivers professional development for educators and curates, manages, and distributes collections of open educational resources.

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FLO growth

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FLO OERs

  • Flexible: different lengths and formats

Micros, Fridays, Labs (not OER), Panels, Blogs

  • Relevance: each year we create new content that respond to current trends
  • Practical: apply learning to the classroom
  • “Accessible”: all courses are CCBY licensed & designed with diverse learners in mind

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Let’s Explore: FLO MicroCourses

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  • One-week courses on current topics, mostly asynchronous, with optional synchronous sessions
  • One concept/topic/skill
  • Digital Badge for completion of activities

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Website: scope.bccampus.ca

  1. Find a course with a topic that piques your interest.
  2. Browse the course and scan for elements that you like or might have questions about – note these down.
  3. Would you adopt this course? Why or why not? What else do you need to know to adopt this course?

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Recordings: FLO Fridays

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FLO Friday: Recorded 1-hour webinars

  • Find a topic that you think might be of interest to you or the faculty you support
  • Think about strategies to create a valuable learning experience using these recordings? How can you share these?

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Blogposts: Tech Tool Tips

  1. Go to https://bit.ly/TechToolTips2024
  2. Consider the benefits and barriers of using a blogpost with embedded videos?
  3. Optional: go to bccampus.ca and search: “Digital Pedagogy Toolbox”

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FLO Adoption

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How to adopt a FLO MicroCourse?

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  1. All FLO courses are CCBY licensed
  2. While hosted in SCoPE (Moodle), we make adoption easy:

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3) Step-by-Step Importing to Brightspace Handout

4) FLO Facilitator Guide

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�FLO/OER adoption Discussion:�Barriers/Opportunities�Why/What would you adopt? �Why wouldn’t you adopt?��What’s missing?�What could we do better?��

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FUSION???�

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https://digitalliteracy.bccampus.ca/ �

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July 8th – August 31st 2024

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  • 8 weeks, asynchronous 
  • Learn more about integrating digital literacy and the framework into your courses (while improving your own digital literacy!) 
  • 1-3 hour per week time commitment 
  • Receive course design help 

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Check-out

On a scale of sheep, how are you feeling about adopting FLO OERs?

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Thank you!

hprins@bccampus

or find me on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenaprins/

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All the links

FLO MicroCourses: https://scope.bccampus.ca/course/index.php?categoryid=16

FLO Friday Flashback: https://media.bccampus.ca/media/FLO+Flashbacks+2+-+FLO+FridayA+Conversations+on+Diversity%2C+Social+Justice%2C+and+Culturally+Responsive+Teaching/0_p8xspoiq

FLO Friday Playlist in Kaltura: https://media.bccampus.ca/playlist/details/0_kgglpic2/categoryId/144255

FLO Tech Tool Tips: https://bccampus.ca/2022/06/01/flo-tech-tool-tip-splots/

FLO Edtech Sandbox Series: https://media.bccampus.ca/esearch/search?keyword=FLO%20Edtech%20Sandbox%20Series

Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: https://bccampus.ca/?s=digital+pedagogy+toolbox

Digital Literacy Hub: https://digitalliteracy.bccampus.ca/

Digital Literacy Series: https://events.humanitix.com/2024-digital-literacy-challenge-series

Self-paced Challenge Series:

OE Challenge: https://oechallenge.opened.ca/

FLO Bootcamp: https://flobootcamp.opened.ca/

UDL Challenge: https://udlchallenge.opened.ca/

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