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Awakening Identity: Using Exploratory, Student-Led Tasks to Build Motivation and Engagement in Postsecondary EAL Learning
This session presents a practical and adaptable approach to open education that places students’ identities, experiences, and cultural knowledge at the centre of learning. Building on classroom cases from both K–12 and postsecondary contexts in China and Canada, the session explores how identity-based, exploratory tasks can support motivation, engagement, and adaptation among multilingual learners in…
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Empowering Open Education through Wikimedia: The EduWiki Hub Experience
The EduWiki Hub is a global initiative of the Wikipedia & Education User Group that supports educators, volunteers, and institutions in integrating Wikimedia projects into teaching and learning. This poster highlights how the Hub strengthens open education by providing structured support through mentorship, capacity-building sessions, thematic working groups, and a global newsletter that connects practitioners…
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Crafting Magic 2.0 – The Thickening
The aim of Crafting Magic is to create a magic effect, successfully perform the effect, and, finally, to produce a Grimoire that encodes the crafted magic in such a way that others may successfully perform the effect. Working in two cults, players craft forms of ‘everyday magic’, their origin myths, their technologies of enchantment and…
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Awakening Identity: Using Exploratory, Student-Led Tasks to Build Motivation and Engagement in Postsecondary EAL Learning
This session presents a practical and adaptable approach to open education that places students’ identities, experiences, and cultural knowledge at the centre of learning. Building on classroom cases from both K–12 and postsecondary contexts in China and Canada, the session explores how identity-based, exploratory tasks can support motivation, engagement, and adaptation among multilingual learners in…
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Beyond Openness: Transdisciplinary Collaboration in the Age of AI
AI in Higher Education Innovation Exchange (2025) is a transdisciplinary project that culminated in the recently published open-access book of the same name—an edited collection of case studies from educators experimenting with Artificial Intelligence (AI) across diverse teaching and learning contexts. The project originated from an innovation event at the University of Calgary that brought…
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Accessible Open Textbooks in Math-Heavy Disciplines
The authoring platform of choice in many math-heavy disciplines is LaTeX. It produces typeset documents of excellent quality and handles formulas and mathematical diagrams extremely well. Unfortunately, it only produces PDF output. To produce accessible OER from LaTeX, the content must either be converted into a format that can produce both PDF output for printing…