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Upcoming events, workshops, and webinars

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October 7, 2025

Teaching and learning focused on online, blended or distributed workshops, webinars, panel discussions, and other professional development events MB Hub has gathered for our membership. We have highlighted events from Partner institutions and organizations such as Educause and Quality Matters and sibling organizations from Canada (BC Campus and Contact North | Contact Nord).

MB Hub Event
September professional development events
The VALUE Assessment Accelerator by AAC&C
2025 Teaching with AI Workshop Series – September/October by AAC&U
Neurodiverse faculty and staff by Future Trends Forum
EdTech Sandbox Series: Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps with H5P and AI Tools by BCcampus
Inside the Faculty Mind: Attitudes and Use of Digital and Open Materials by OLC
Inside the Faculty Mind: Attitudes and Use of Digital and Open Materials – by OLC
Escape the Inaccessible: The Digital Escape Room (DER) about Inclusive Design by QM
Climate change work in the academy by Future Trends Forum
October professional development events
FLO Workshop: Threading Equity Through Educational Materials by BCcampus
Beyond Crystal Balls: An Interactive Webinar on Designing Education’s Plural Futures by Contact North
Climate change work in the academy by Future Trends Forum
AI and scholarship by Future Trends Forum
The antiracist reckoning by Future Trends Forum

MB Hub Event

Panel discussion: Student engagement with digital tools in flexible learning

Panel discussion exploring ways to enhance student engagement in your course through simple activities and digital tools.

Panelists:

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Kim Ashbourne, editor of CanDARE (Digital Accessibility Research in Education)
- Kim Ashbourne’s BCcampus Fellowship research investigates the intersections of digital accessibility, disability justice, digital practices, and praxis in post-secondary. Kim began digital accessibility advocacy as an instructor in Humber College’s Professional Writing and Communications program. Then, while pursuing her Master of Education in Educational Technology from the University of Victoria, she worked as a learning experience designer focused on accessibility. She experienced the COVID pivot online and back again from three perspectives: as a disabled learner, as a digital accessibility in education researcher, and as a learning designer supporting educators who at first struggled to get courses online, let alone meet the digital accessibility needs of disabled learners. This unique experience continues to inform her research, as does her personal experience of disability, as does the paid and unpaid, centred, and marginalized work of disability rights and disability justice activists, artists and scholars. Kim is the editor of candare.ca. She writes and delivers workshops on transformative digital accessibility at conferences and universities in Canada and the US.

Sharmila Vijayann, University of Manitoba: Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
- Sharmila Vijayann is an Educational Developer at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. Guided by the belief that “Learning for All and All for Learning” Sharmila is committed to designing learning environments that are transformative, inclusive, and future-focused. With over 20 years of experience across academic and corporate sectors, Sharmila brings a values-based, systems approach to enhancing student engagement in online, blended, and dual-delivery programs. Their work bridges educators, students, and communities through collaborative learning models that reflect today’s complex socio-economic realities. Sharmila’s work focuses on practical strategies: engaging activities that meet diverse needs, modality-aware course design, transparent AI-supported workflows that build connection, and integrity-by-design assessment methodologies that foster trust. As a recognized leader in ethical generative AI integration, Sharmila helps faculty use emerging GenAI tools with care and clarity. Sharmila also leads the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) and supports faculty members in aligning program outcomes, refining delivery, and scaling success using accessible templates, user-friendly tools, and continuous improvement methods, so that technology advances, rather than override pedagogical approaches.
Dr. Ranjan R. Sri Ranjan, has been a Professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba since 1990. As an early adopter in the “Computers in the Classroom” project at the UofM, he has been teaching using computers/laptops since 1992. He switched to the iPad in 2011 due to its versatility and ease of use. Over the years, he has evaluated numerous hardware, software, and apps to select the best ones to enhance his teaching and student learning. Ranjan has given “Teaching and Learning with Technology” workshops to different Faculties at the UofM and the UofM Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. Ranjan has also presented seminars on teaching with technology to Science Teachers from High Schools in Winnipeg, as well as at National and International Conferences.

Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Remote – UM Zoom
Facilitator/moderator: JJ Cloutier, M.Sc. (Digital Content Coordinator), Manitoba Flexible Learning Hub

September professional development events

The VALUE Assessment Accelerator by AAC&C

The VALUE Assessment Accelerator Workshop is divided into three sections:

Getting Started (asynchronous)
Monday, September 8 to Friday, September 12
Part I (synchronous via Zoom)
Friday, September 19, 2025; 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET
Part II (synchronous via Zoom)
Friday, September 26, 2025; 10:00 a.m.– 1:00 p.m. ET