Simple Course Template Based on the OpenEd Canvas Clone theme, this template features a left side menu, customizable sections and navigational buttons. This template works well for large or small course when you want to keep the visual aesthetics simple and clean. Beyond Moodle Course Template Based on the McLuhan theme, this template features a…
Need a template customized? All website themes are customizable and can be adapted to suit specific contexts and situations. Connect with the LT&I team at learningtech@tru.ca to discuss your project so we can collaboratively customize a template for you and visit your classroom to support student website development. Customizing a template includes updating the images,…
What do we mean by an “open platform”? For today, we will avoid definitions and focus on how platforms work, and how we work with them. For a few sets of tools, let’s ask the following questions: Where is it hosted? Who “owns” the software? Who administers and constructs the environment? How much can it…
So what is “digital storytelling”? Brian is a denizen of the DS106 community, which has inspired many of us. There are many other approaches. But Brian subscribes to a broad definition, essentially any story told using digital media. That can be video, audio, text, and other forms of multimedia. Using the web WordPress – hosted…
Hi all, please request your Webwork accounts/courses using the form below. It accommodates multiple courses per instructor, multiple instructors per course (for co-teaching or multi-section courses using a common Webwork course.), and adding notes to copy problem sets from an existing course. Please note the following account information which increases flexibility for Faculty, Webwork accounts…
Midjourney prompt: “Educational technologist tarot cards” Background The vision (and much of the investment capital) of “artificial intelligence” historically has been driven by the “California Ideology”, a heady mix of techno-utopianism, libertarian politics, and old visions of “extropianism”. The massive wealth concentrated in the tech industries has empowered and emboldened its plutocrats. Audrey Watters described…
We are Learning Technology & Innovation (LT&I) LT&I are part of Open Learning (OL), and complement CELT, and TRU IT, supporting teaching and learning. Our Production and Media teams build online and distance courses for OL, while the Learning Technology team is focused on supporting our campus community. Strategic Priority: “Inclusive excellence in faculty and…
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In the Thompson Rivers University Act (2005): (1) The purposes of the university are to offer baccalaureate and masters degree programs, to offer post-secondary and adult basic education and training, to undertake and maintain research and scholarly activities for the purposes of paragraphs (a) and (b), and to provide an open learning educational credit bank…
View this page at https://trubox.ca/isp/ TRU’s process began February 2021. Steering Committee struck, process went from June 2021 – February 2022 OL Steering Committee members: Sylvia Bell, Brenna Clarke Gray, Brian Lamb, Iain Pardoe OL Planning Committee members: Steering Committee plus Matthew Dyck, Melissa Jakubec, Thomas Sandhoff, Christopher Ward. Detailed timeline (download PDF file): Planning…