Awakening Identity: Using Exploratory, Student-Led Tasks to Build Motivation and Engagement in Postsecondary EAL Learning

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…

Empowering Open Education through Wikimedia: The EduWiki Hub Experience

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…

Awakening Identity: Using Exploratory, Student-Led Tasks to Build Motivation and Engagement in Postsecondary EAL Learning

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…

Beyond Openness: Transdisciplinary Collaboration in the Age of AI

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…