We’ve collected a set of resources intended to provide a high level overview of moving classes from in-person to online. We hope it proves useful for people trying to do this quickly.

We have tried to approach this work with the same trauma-informed approach that served our faculty well during the campus closure period of the pandemic. Obviously, this stressor is not on the same scale as what you and your learners are experiencing, so please take what seems useful here and leave the rest. At the core, trauma-informed teachers simply keep in mind that trauma impacts performance, often in unpredictable ways, and make accommodations for that.

A great resource to look to is Torrey Trust’s “Teaching Remotely in Times of Need,” which offers many activities, exercises, and lots of inspiration for instructors trying to do the impossible in impossible situations.

We know that we cannot begin to understand the conditions you are working in, and we can only guess at your needs and your goals. We hope you won’t be shy about educating us as we go.

We’ll try to cover the common practices for online learning practice, at least in the Canadian context, as well as some of our passions such as open education. We will also share some of our thinking on new and rapidly changing parts of online teaching, such as “artificial intelligence”.

Thompson Rivers University campuses are on the traditional lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops campus) and the T’exelc (Williams Lake campus) within Secwépemc’ulucw, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc. Our region also extends into the territories of the St’át’imc, Nlaka’pamux, Nuxalk, Tŝilhqot’in and Dakelh peoples.