While there is already a moderate amount of discourse on the use and misuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in post-secondary institutions, there is much less research on the impact and endorsement of AI in rural educational settings with specific focus on faculty training and buy-in. In this session we look at how AI can be…
Vancouver Island University partners with Studiosity to provide consistent and equitable support to their students. Currently offered to their Academic and Career Preparation Programs students, VIU’s partnership with Studiosity offers Writing Feedback, providing comprehensive, AI-powered, skill-building feedback on written assignments; Study Assist, delivering AI-powered help-not-answers to assignment and study questions; and Connect Live, a conduit…
Library scholarship enumerates the limitations of the information literacy one-shot model. It persists not because of its pedagogical strengths, but because of the ambiguous role of academic librarians in the university and the growing need to outsource basic research instruction in the face of precarious and over-worked adjunct faculty across disciplines. That said, librarians are…
In 2024, I authored an Open Learning Textbook for Psychology 3710 at Thompson Rivers University. This free textbook, is unique in its integration of indigenized creation-based stories alongside scientific evolutionary content and was written to reassess basic critical thinking guide lines in the context of brain-based function and dysfunction. The project also leveraged intelligent design…
Unicorn assessment is an innovative and decolonized approach that any educator, in any course, can use. This presentation will inspire attendees to reconsider the lifecycle and outcomes of traditional assessments in their toolkits by showcasing products of unicorn assessment used for evaluation of learning outcomes in a course in TRU’s Bachelor of Education Program. In…
In a polarized world, education on leadership ethics and civil discourse is essential. In Fall 2024, educators and student leaders co-created a graduate course and co-authored Ethical Educational Leadership: Untangling Ethical Dilemmas and Imagining Alternative Futures using open pedagogy. Graduate students contributed chapters, ensuring their work had lasting value. Open pedagogy empowers students as knowledge…
A research study has explored the following research questions using surveys and interview among second-year science students: 1) What are chemical and life science student perspectives of the impacts on learning and sense of belonging of active learning experiences in their first- and second-year courses? 2) To what extent do senses of belonging and identity…