BC WordPress CoP in Higher Education
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BC WordPress CoP in Higher Education
- 2. Conference 2017 Open Textbook Repository 2
- 3. Conference 2017 Open Textbook Authoring 3
- 4. Conference 2017 Open Textbook Authoring 4
- 5. Conference 2017 A loose-knit, tightly-honed group of BC post-secondary educators dedicated to working together to address our common dream of providing open and ethical online tools to educators. The BC Open EdTech Collaborative (BCOETC)
- 7. Conference 2017 1. To promote the use of open source software (OSS) focused on teaching & learning. 2. To promote inter-institutional collaboration. 3. To provide a pathway for institutions and educators to actively participate in OSS projects. 4. To encourage technological autonomy & provide ways for students, faculty and institutions to own and control their own data. 5. To lower the barriers to participation on the open web for BC faculty and students. 6. To provide value to other higher ed support systems within BC such as the BCNet EduCloud service. 7. To provide another path for sustainable ed tech infrastructure to BC higher education. 8. To assist BC faculty in evaluating and making informed pedagogical decisions around open source teaching and learning applications. Together
- 8. Conference 2017 WordPress Community of Practice urls.bccampus.ca/wordpress EdTech Demo urls.bccampus.ca/edtechdemo Sandbox Pilots urls.bccampus.ca/sandbox Guide on the Side demo Sandstorm (BCOETC instance) Mattermost Get involved urls.bccampus.ca/bcoetc Experiments & Initiatives
Editor's Notes
- Open pedagogy models of teaching & learning – engaging with the world as a pedagogical model Hard to do with traditional LMS where it is very difficult to conduct teaching and learning on the web in the open RRU Elizabeth Child “Students will gain and maintain their own WordPress site throughout the program, allowing them to take an active and participatory role in the wider education community.” The RRU Teaching and Learning Model speaks to authentic experiential and inquiry-based learning, outcomes-based learning, enhanced learning through technology so when we lined these characteristics up with principles of openness and open pedagogy broadly defined there was a direct dovetail. Often challenge for IT departments (rightly so) to work outside of the box on projects like these
- Integration with LimeSurvey
- Collaborative work Purpose is to provide space for BC higher education institutions to participate in the development and application of open source Next Generation Digital Learning Environments. BCcampus is providing support to help bootstrap this group and some of their initiatives 8 goals for the work they are doing
- Where to find these? How to evaluate these tools without a vendor? One institution cannot do it all.