Digital Teaching

NEW Self-Paced Course: Brightspace Basics

AVAILABLE IN THE DISCOVER AREA OF BRIGHTSPACE Make get­ting start­ed in Bright­space eas­i­er! The NIC Bright­space Basics asyn­chro­nous online course pro­vides a flex­i­ble pro­fes­sion­al learn­ing expe­ri­ence specif­i­cal­ly focused on mas­ter­ing the tech­ni­cal intri­ca­cies of online course devel­op­ment with­in Bright­space. It equips instruc­tors with prac­ti­cal insights and skills nec­es­sary to nav­i­gate the plat­form effec­tive­ly, stream­lin­ing the…

BCcampus Open Textbook Collection

Cre­at­ing a Bet­ter User Expe­ri­ence for the B.C. Open Col­lec­tion Link to IMPROVED BC Open Col­lec­tion: https://collection.bccampus.ca/ BCcam­pus has cre­at­ed a bet­ter user expe­ri­ence for their fan­tas­tic open col­lec­tion of teach­ing and learn­ing resources. From the arti­cle intro: If you’re an edu­ca­tor in B.C.’s post-sec­ondary sys­tem, chances are you’ve heard about the B.C. Open Col­lec­tion,…

Creating Interactive Content for Brightspace — Free, Fast and Fun!

If you are look­ing for adding more inter­ac­tive con­tent to your Bright­space cours­es, come join the NIC H5P Stu­dio Space! NIC has a space for instruc­tors to quick­ly build small inter­ac­tive con­tent items for adding to a Bright­space course. This free space is housed on a Word­Press site that NIC has set up for all…

Learning from Video: NIC’s Kaltura Platform

Video can be a very effec­tive learn­ing tool. Many research stud­ies have shown its val­ue in enhanc­ing stu­dent learn­ing in a vari­ety of dis­ci­plines and deliv­ery for­mats. Video cre­at­ed or curat­ed by instruc­tors can often allow stu­dents a more thor­ough under­stand­ing of con­tent and con­cepts and engage them in more mean­ing­ful ways while learn­ing. Stu­dents…