BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Springshare//LibCal//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Centre for Teaching and Learning X-WR-CALDESC: X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Regina X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260415T170000Z DTEND:20260415T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260415T000000Z SUMMARY:Universal Design for Learning and Open Education: Integrating Accessibility and Inclusion DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this Open Education Speaker Series session "Universal Design for Learning and Open Education: Integrating Accessibility and Inclusion" with Dr. Ann Gagné and Kosar Dakhilalian (Brock University).\n\nAbstract: This session will explore the three main principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines to provide examples of how open education can foster engagement\, give options for representation\, and demonstrate learning. The speakers will provide examples of resources\, tools\, and assessments from their co-created OER on Accessible Adoption to allow participants to reflect on how UDL can be an attainable and sustainable way to approach accessibility and inclusion in Open in their specific disciplinary contexts.\n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\nDr. Ann Gagné (she/her) is Senior Educational Developer\, Accessibility & Inclusion at Brock University. She has worked in higher education for over 22 years. Her work focuses on the need for accessible pedagogies through awareness of disabled lived experiences. She regularly facilitates workshops on accessible and inclusive pedagogy and trauma-informed UDL.\n\nKosar Dakhilalian is an Educational Developer\, Open Educational Resources at Brock University since 2023. She facilitates workshops to respond to the OER needs of the instructors\, offers consultations\, and helps with design and creation of OER and interactive elements. ORGANIZER;CN="Shuana Niessen":MAILTO:shuana.niessen@uregina.ca CATEGORIES:Speaker Series UID:LibCal-7284-4004017 URL:https://uregina.libcal.com/event/4004017 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260429T191500Z DTEND:20260429T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260429T000000Z SUMMARY:Getting Started with UR Courses DESCRIPTION:This training session is designed for instructors and staff who are new to UR Courses or who want to learn more about using the platform. It provides a guided overview of UR Courses and walks through the essential steps for setting up\, managing\, and reusing a course site.\n\nIn this session\, you will learn how to:\n\n\n Create your first UR Courses site\n Navigate and edit your course homepage\n Add and organize course activities and resources\n Add students to your course\n Reuse and copy course content for future terms\n Understand how students view and interact with your course\n\n\nBy the end of the session\, you will have a solid foundation for building\, maintaining\, and reusing your UR Courses site. LOCATION:CTL Seminar Room - AH 105.6 ORGANIZER;CN="Deena Salem":MAILTO:deena.salem@uregina.ca CATEGORIES:How-to UID:LibCal-7284-4014967 URL:https://uregina.libcal.com/event/4014967 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260501T010000Z DTEND:20260501T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260430T000000Z SUMMARY:Getting Started with UR Courses DESCRIPTION:This training session is designed for instructors and staff who are new to UR Courses or who want to learn more about using the platform. It provides a guided overview of UR Courses and walks through the essential steps for setting up\, managing\, and reusing a course site.\n\nIn this session\, you will learn how to:\n\n\n Create your first UR Courses site\n Navigate and edit your course homepage\n Add and organize course activities and resources\n Add students to your course\n Reuse and copy course content for future terms\n Understand how students view and interact with your course\n\n\nBy the end of the session\, you will have a solid foundation for building\, maintaining\, and reusing your UR Courses site. ORGANIZER;CN="Deena Salem":MAILTO:deena.salem@uregina.ca CATEGORIES:How-to UID:LibCal-7284-4014968 URL:https://uregina.libcal.com/event/4014968 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260505T010000Z DTEND:20260505T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260504T000000Z SUMMARY:Getting Started with UR Courses DESCRIPTION:This training session is designed for instructors and staff who are new to UR Courses or who want to learn more about using the platform. It provides a guided overview of UR Courses and walks through the essential steps for setting up\, managing\, and reusing a course site.\n\nIn this session\, you will learn how to:\n\nCreate your first UR Courses site\nNavigate and edit your course homepage\nAdd and organize course activities and resources\nAdd students to your course\nReuse and copy course content for future terms\nUnderstand how students view and interact with your course\nBy the end of the session\, you will have a solid foundation for building\, maintaining\, and reusing your UR Courses site. ORGANIZER;CN="Deena Salem":MAILTO:deena.salem@uregina.ca CATEGORIES:How-to UID:LibCal-7284-4014973 URL:https://uregina.libcal.com/event/4014973 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260616T190000Z DTEND:20260616T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260616T000000Z SUMMARY:Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resources Aligned with Learning Objectives DESCRIPTION:If you've been thinking about how to make your courses more affordable and accessible\, this workshop is for you. Finding and evaluating openly licensed resources (OER) requires a unique skill set. In this workshop\, participants will be taken through a step-by-step process for finding and evaluating OER that are aligned with learning objectives for a course they are or will be teaching. \n\nThis is Part 1 in a 2-part series of workshops. In this workshop\, after a short presentation on OER Basics\, participants will analyze their syllabus and determine learning objectives. They will then use six search strategies to find and document open resources aligned with learning objectives\, using a tracking document. Once a list of resources has been generated\, participants will choose from a variety of rubrics to help them evaluate the resources.\n\nObjective: By the end of this workshop\, participants will be equipped with the tools and skills needed to find and evaluate OER for their courses. \n\nWhat to bring: \n\n\n Participants will need to bring your own device to use for the activities around finding and evaluating OER\n Participants will need to bring your own syllabus to work from.\n\n\nFormat: In-Person. This workshop is designed for in-person delivery. However\, if you are a University of Regina or its federated colleges member and can't make it in-person\, please email open.textbooks@uregina.ca to request a Zoom link. This session will not be recorded. LOCATION:CTL Seminar Room - AH 105.6 ORGANIZER;CN="Shuana Niessen":MAILTO:shuana.niessen@uregina.ca CATEGORIES:How-to UID:LibCal-7284-4018604 URL:https://uregina.libcal.com/event/4018604 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260617T190000Z DTEND:20260617T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260617T000000Z SUMMARY:Open Pedagogy: Designing Engaging Assignments - Workshop DESCRIPTION:Open Pedagogy: Designing Engaging Assignments - Workshop\n\nIf you've been thinking about how to make your courses more learner-centred and engaging for 21st century students\, this workshop is for you. Innovative open teaching and learning processes\, such as open pedagogy\, promote learner agency\, participation\, co-creation of knowledge\, collaboration\, empowerment\, and authentic engagement in real-world context with ongoing feedback. \n\nDescription: This is Part 2 in a 2-part series of workshops. Building on the work done in the first workshop\, and after a presentation on open pedagogy with guidance around mitigating student risks\, participants will develop an open pedagogy assignment suited to their learning objectives. \n\nObjective: By the end of this workshop\, participants will be equipped with tools and skills needed to enact open pedagogy in their own courses. \n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n Participants will need to bring your own device to use for the activities around developing open pedagogy assignments.\n Participants will need to bring your own syllabus to work from.\n\n\nFormat: In-Person. This workshop is designed for in-person delivery. However\, if you are a University of Regina or its federated colleges member and can't make it in-person\, please email open.textbooks@uregina.ca to request a Zoom link. This session will not be recorded.\n\n LOCATION:CTL Seminar Room - AH 105.6 ORGANIZER;CN="Shuana Niessen":MAILTO:shuana.niessen@uregina.ca CATEGORIES:How-to UID:LibCal-7284-4018649 URL:https://uregina.libcal.com/event/4018649 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260623T170000Z DTEND:20260623T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260623T000000Z SUMMARY:Book Launch: Introductory Statistics DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the launch of this new open textbook\, Introductory Statistics\, by Dr. Arzu Sardarli (First Nations University of Canada) and Dr. Andrei Volodin (University of Regina.)\n\nIntroductory Statistics is a peer-reviewed open textbook designed for teaching key fundamental principles of Statistics. It briefly covers three main branches of Statistics: Descriptive Analysis\, Probability\, and Interferential Analysis.\n\n \n\n ORGANIZER;CN="Shuana Niessen":MAILTO:shuana.niessen@uregina.ca CATEGORIES:Events UID:LibCal-7284-4019813 URL:https://uregina.libcal.com/event/4019813 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR