The Learning Technology Forum is a space to share different ways we use learning technology as a part of our teaching and learning in the University of Calgary community and to connect with other members of the community. Learning technology is a broad category, but the focus of the forum is on the tools instructors use to engage learners and evaluate learning.
The Learning Technology Forum is a 45-minute session for discussing learning technology; what works, what doesn’t work, what we’ve learned, and what we want to know.
In the forum, participants will have the opportunity to:
Date: Fourth Monday of every month.
Time: 3 p.m.
The Learning Technology Forum is open to everyone in the University of Calgary community who teaches (online or in-person), and works with or has an interest in learning technologies.
If you are interested, please contact Tyson Kendon to be added to the Learning Technology Forum mailing list.
This community of practice is a collaborative and collective learning space to connect, capture, and share our learning, thoughts, and experiences with EDIA in teaching and learning practices. In this participant-driven space, we aim to explore our understanding of the diverse human experience in post-secondary contexts.
In this community of practice, participants will have the opportunity to:
Date: Meetings take place on the third Wednesday of every month from 3 – 4 p.m.
Modality: Online via Zoom
This community of practice is open to educators including course instructors, educational leaders, staff supporting teaching, teaching assistants and postdoctoral scholars in the UCalgary community who have an interest in exploring EDIA practices in their teaching and learning.
If you are interested in joining, please contact Dr. Fouzia Usman, Educational Developer (EDI).
The TI and Libraries & Cultural Resources have collaborated on the development of a new online community of practice (OCoP) for open educational practices at UCalgary. This online community of practice is a space for educators, staff and students to share open educational practices, pedagogies and resources.
In this community of practice, participants will have the opportunity to:
Meeting notes are shared in a Teams channel that all participants have access to. As the OCoP grows, the group will develop open-access channels for distributing these notes.
Date: Once per term, next meeting TBD
This community of practice is open to educators, staff, students, and partners who share an interest in open educational practices, including open educational resources (OER).
If you are interested in joining, please contact Sarah Adams (oer@ucalgary.ca).
The Teaching Supports Network is a community of teaching and learning management and support staff who work with faculty and instructors to enhance the student learning experience. This is a community-driven group, with topics and meeting dates/times determined by the group itself.
In this network, participants will have the opportunity to:
Meeting notes and updates are shared in a Teams channel that all members have access to.
Network Meetings: Once per semester; dates and topics are set by the group.
Next meeting: August 2026 (exact date and time TBD); Topic: Qualtrics Modality: Online (virtual)
This network is open to teaching and learning management and support staff who work with faculty and instructors to enhance the student learning experience.
If you are interested in joining, please contact Lorelei Anselmo or Alexis Handford for an invitation to the next meeting and access to our Teams channel.
This community of practice is a space to hold work-integrated learning conversations across campus, a space to share best practices, collaborate, build reciprocal relationships and to create some shared mutually beneficial resources.
In this community of practice, participants will have the opportunity to:
Dates
• Thursday, April 10, 9:30am - 11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, Sept. 18, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, Dec. 11, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
This community of practice is open to all faculty and staff involved in Work-Integrated Learning at UCalgary.
If you are interested in joining, please contact Mika Blundell for an invitation to the next meeting and access to our Team channel.
Thank you to everyone who attended a Large Enrolment Course community of practice meetings. While we will no longer be meeting in this capacity, we would like to invite you to attend the upcoming Conversations about Large Enrolment webinar series. For details, please visit the program web page.
To design a thoughtful and mutually beneficial online community of practice (OCoP), we developed a seven-stage framework. While it may be useful for readers to approach these stages like sequential steps, the framework is well-suited to an iterative approach that accommodates rapidly changing conditions and needs. At each stage of the framework, we suggest asking the following reflective questions to prompt intentional design of your OCoP.