Learning Technology

Students in today’s post-secondary classrooms expect all of the technology supports they’ve grown accustomed to elsewhere, in addition to their traditional on-campus or online learning. They’ve recognized the advantages that come with multiple paths to access content, interact with others and demonstrate proficiency. Can faculty deliver effective learning with these technologies within already heavy workloads? Can IT and learning technology teams support this new normal? And who’s being left behind?

The BC Ministry of Post Secondary and Future Skills, in partnership with BC post-secondary institutions, is implementing a “Digital Learning Strategy”, elements of which include a “digital literacies framework”, as well as new goals around digital learning implementation across institutions.

In this track, we invite submissions from educators, learning technologists, librarians and strategic planners to share what they have learned over this period, and to raise and consider the challenges that lie ahead. We will learn from our experiences with technology provision, faculty and learner support, working in remote and hybrid environments, and untangling complex social dimensions to our practice against a backdrop of uncertainty. We will also explore the ongoing challenges to support accessible, flexible and effective practice into the future.

We are looking for proposals along these themes:

• Adopting and extending learning technologies, particularly in light of the Digital Learning Strategy's recommendations
• Faculty engagement and development and the Digital Literacies Framework
• Digital learning models: beyond F2F, hybrid, hyflex, online
• Supporting learners in remote and hybrid learning, developing student digital literacies
• Supporting pedagogies of care
• Supporting indigenous users and reconciliation
• Scaling up technology with limited resources
• Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence tools
• Technologies in support of library access and services
• Academic integrity
• Learning technologies and analytics
• Ethical practices
• Surveillance technology and privacy
• Accessibility, inclusive practice, universal design
• Innovations in practice and provision of technology
• Evaluating and implementing new technologies