The Festival of Learning is B.C.’s largest celebration of teaching and learning in higher education and will take place from May 11-13, 2020. Held every two years and welcoming about 500 attendees from all over B.C. and beyond, the Festival is a great opportunity for faculty, students, leaders, librarians, learning designers, educational technologists and accessibility/ disability educators and professionals to network and learn together. This year’s theme is disruption and transformation in post-secondary education. The deadline for proposals is November 15, 2019. We welcome your proposals from all areas of higher education as we grapple with key questions, such as: * How are open educational practices (OEP) transforming teaching and learning? How do OEP disrupt traditional power structures and narratives in education? How are the open education and open access movements challenging the status quo? Where are they falling short? * How are you “disrupting” teaching and learning practices, policies, and processes? What disruptions call for creative adaptation and change? * How are you engaging in reconciliation, Indigenous pedagogy, decolonization, or Indigenization in your teaching and learning practices? * Technology is often seen as a disruptor and catalyst for transformation. How can we effectively and creatively use educational technologies to support learning? * What transformations are needed to make post-secondary institutions and learning environments inclusive and accessible to support every student? * As educators, how do we respond skillfully to the global climate crisis? What is our role and responsibility to the planet at this critical time? See the call for proposals at: https://festival.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals-2019/ [logo gif] Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him) Associate Vice Provost, Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca> www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, please destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies. At KPU, we work, study, and live in a region south of the Fraser River which overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semihamoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlen peoples.