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Indigenous Updates: March 2025

(Time to Read: 4 mins.) ʔa səy̓em̓ ʔiʔ tə nə siyey̓ə ʔiʔ tə nə siyal̕əxʷeʔRespect­ed ones, friends and eldersʔəm̓i ce:p kʷətxʷiləm tə n̓a təməxʷWel­come to the land of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam),sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)and səlil­wə­taɬ (Tsleil-Wau­­tuth) peo­ples. “Can we talk of inte­gra­tion…

Based on “Théâtre d'Opéra Spatial” by Michael J. Allen (created with Midjourney), Sept. 5, 2022. (Public Domain)

design / how-to / strategy

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AI Insight: AI tools to improve elearning content

(Time to Read: 5 mins.) Even with my cynic’s hat firm­ly affixed, I haven’t been able to avoid using GenAI to enhance con­tent for online cours­es. Here are exam­ples where I’ve used AI to gen­er­ate or enhance con­tent for elearn­ing projects at VCC.

design / strategy

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Exploring UDL to Reduce Accommodation Requests

(Time to Read: 2 mins.) As Online Devel­op­ers at Van­cou­ver Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege, we’re excit­ed to embark on a new project in col­lab­o­ra­tion with VCC Dis­abil­i­ty Ser­vices: “Explor­ing UDL to Reduce Accom­mo­da­tion Requests at VCC”. A few years ago, one…

Based on “Théâtre d'Opéra Spatial” by Michael J. Allen (created with Midjourney), Sept. 5, 2022. (Public Domain)

strategy / technology

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AI Insight: Creation or Mechanization?

(Time to Read: 6 mins.) In this post, I’ll cov­er main ideas and issues that have both dri­ven me away from and pulled me towards using AI-based tools for con­tent cre­ation. (If you’re more inter­est­ed in prac­ti­cal uses than…

design / how-to / strategy / technology

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Frame by Frame: OPTA Videos, Part 3 — Editing and Distribution

(Time to Read: 5 mins.) This three-part series describes the ins and outs of design­ing edu­ca­tion­al videos for post-sec­ondary train­ing in the Occu­pa­tion­al and Phys­i­cal Ther­a­py Assis­tant pro­gram at Van­cou­ver Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege. In Part 3, we describe edit­ing, dis­tri­b­u­tion, and the appli­ca­tions of the fin­ished videos in OPTA’s elearn­ing projects.

design / strategy / technology

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CRN-based Moodle shell creation and enrolment

(Time to Read: 3 mins.) Moo­dle course shell cre­ation and enrol­ment are the most crit­i­cal and com­­mon­­ly-need­ed tasks for online learn­ing at Van­cou­ver Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege. At VCC, we use the term shell to refer to the web site con­tain­er…

indigenous

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Indigenous Updates: September 2024 Activities

(Time to Read: 4 mins.) Ę”a sÉ™yĚ“emĚ“ Ę”iĘ” tÉ™ nÉ™ siyeyĚ“É™ Ę”iĘ” tÉ™ nÉ™ siyalĚ•É™xĘ·eĘ” – Respect­ed ones, friends and elders Ę”É™mĚ“i ce:p kĘ·É™txĘ·ilÉ™m tÉ™ nĚ“a tÉ™mÉ™xĘ· – Wel­come to the land of the xĘ·məθkĘ·É™yĚ“É™m (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wĂş7mesh (Squamish), and sÉ™lil­wə­taɬ (Tsleil-Wau­­tuth)…

open / strategy

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Open: OER Support at VCC

(Time to Read: 3 mins.) Open Edu­ca­tion Resources (OERs) have become an inte­gral part of text­book con­ver­sa­tions in the post-sec­ondary world. Defined by their per­mis­sions to be retained, reused, revised, remixed and redis­trib­uted, OERs present a cus­tomiz­able and afford­able…