Wednesday, October 26
10:00-10:20 AM
UTC
Port Alberni

BCIT’s Technology-enabled Knowledge (TEK) Initiative: New models for learning and teaching drive organizational change

Best Practices Session ID: 14729
  1. Maggie Beers
    British Columbia Institute of Technology
  2. Chris Golding
    British Columbia Institute of Technology
  3. Vivian Forssman
    British Columbia Institute of Technology

Abstract: BCIT has invited its faculty, students, staff and community partners to participate in a five-year strategic initiative to collectively build its educational technology and information technology infrastructure to enhance learning, teaching and research at the Institute. The TEK Initiative aims to provide the technical infrastructure, web-based collaboration tools, educational support structures and faculty release time to enable its 47,000 learners to engage in exemplary uses of educational and information technology. Early steps towards this initiative included establishing the five TEK Initiative foundation goals, creating a collective educational vision, and identifying the technical components required to achieve this vision. Current steps include piloting new technologies and learning approaches through 47 faculty-led Grassroots Projects and restructuring BCIT’s Learning and Teaching Centre and Computer Resources to better support the faculty and student requirements.

Presider: KayDee Caywood, National University

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