NWeLearn 2024

Bellevue College's XR Lab has been awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to help community building, support teaching and learning on campus, and produce meaningful XR-related open educational resources (OER) for all.
BCXR Lab Faculty Lead Bruce Wolcott talks about his role as the administrator of this grant and shares the exciting opportunities and challenges while sharing his passion for the power (and pitfalls) of introducing eXtended Reality (XR) and other immersive technology opportunities to the broader domain of public education.

During this session we will introduce a variety of viewpoints about the expanding use of technology in education, such as AI, XR, and VR. We will look at some exciting XR and AI examples created at Bellevue College by faculty and staff, and we will discuss what you see as appropriate use for AI in education. This session will include a hands-on activity that offers food for thought about best AI practices. The idea is to encourage the use of technology with focused intention, rather than just for the fear of missing out (FOMO).

Working from home. COVID. Exhaustion. Twitter is gone. Is your sense of community missing? Feel less connected to colleagues and professional learning? Do you have ideas about recovery? This conversation invites sharing communal grief and finding new hope in real steps we can take to recover our belonging and community.

Here is the presentation. 

Many graduate teaching assistants in STEM and other disciplines have never taken education courses and may repeat pedagogical patterns they have seen as students and not know that these patterns are ineffective or incorrect for the courses, students, or teaching modalities being used. This presentation will discuss the development and implementation of a teaching and learning professional development workshop series for graduate teaching assistants and post-doctoral students at WSU Vancouver.
This presentation will provide ideas and strategies on how to design a similar workshop or series of workshops at other colleges and universities where teaching and learning courses for graduate teaching assistants and post docs may be lacking. Secondly, providing this type of teaching and learning support could make a college or university more attractive to undergraduate and transfer students that wish to attend graduate school and receive the teaching and learning support that other colleges and universities do not offer. Lastly, attendees will generate workshop topic ideas or a development plan that they can implement when they return home. They will also be able to review suggestions from others and offer others their suggestions.