OEP Supports across BC and beyond

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For this activity which is being presented at ETUG 2025 we are hoping to capture your thoughts on how you feel your institution is positioned to help support educators in implementing OEP in their teaching and learning activities. This resource has an embedded perspectives framework to get you to think about an issue or topic from a variety of viewpoints. For this activity choose one perspective from the framework below and share your thoughts on how well supported you are in your OEP work. What other resources or supports might you need to move you or your institution forward?

 

 

Support for faculty and students

We need more support for faculty and students – consultation, training, classroom visits, funding. [...]Read More...

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Issues

Textbooks, scholarly literature, and even current events reflected in venues ranging from social media to journalism, all present a continuous roll of issues that have topical relevance in a course setting. To use this lens dentify one or more issues that are relevant to the topic in this chapter. Issues can range very widely, from ongoing debates about privacy to public health to emerging stories about climate events.

Role Perspectives

Different roles can have an impact on interests and perspectives. For example, being a student is in itself a role – including domestic, international, full time or part time, newly matriculated or mid-career professional, along with such other possible roles as parent, administrator, educator or other areas within life outside of the educational milieu.

Lenses

You may choose or be assigned to research the chapter topic from a particular lens, such as decolonization, historical justice, anti-racism, and other such anti-oppressive perspectives that centre on alternative narratives to those that present in dominant cultures. By working with a specific lens, you can research issues from a social justice perspective. In addition, the use of lenses can also encourage a focus on transdisciplinary approaches.

Settings

Many learning experiences in higher education include various forms of experiential learning intended to integrate workplace or community-based learning with formal education. Focusing on a specific setting can help focus the learning on specific settings. You may come to your studies from, or with ambitions toward, a particular industry or workplace, community setting, within education or a profession, corporate or public sector, or any of many possible disciplines. For instance, learning design in higher education is often quite different from the corporate world or within government. These settings may have an influence on the perspectives you bring and/or would like to bring to your research and course work.

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