We’ve added two new apps to our BCcampus Sandbox Environment as part of our effort to support exploration into new technologies and potential new shared services for the B.C. system...

I was extremely fortunate to once again participate in what has become an annual event for me, the 8th International Open Education Conference, which this year moved back closer to its historic birthplace in Utah. This year's conference took place up in the mountains east of Salt Lake City at Park City, a beautiful setting that in its relative remoteness also led to much concentrated discussions by participants as, frankly, there wasn't a lot of other places to go! We'll have to think about this for next year, when BCcampus, along with UBC, Athabasca and BYU bring the Open Ed conference back to Vancouver, a place not known for its lack of distractions! ...

UPDATE (Oct 31, 2011): All Online Collaborative Program websites are now functioning. Thank you for your patience with this issue...

BCcampus’s leadership in distance learning and flexible trades training has attracted international attention...

At BCcampus we always attempt to offer some kind of experience for individuals or groups who are unable to attend meetings and events in person. Sometimes this is simply a shared recording of one or more selected presentations. Other times we live stream, but don't plan for other ways to engage the online participants. Occasionally the engagement just happens, initiated by participants through twitter...

The BCcampus engineering team has a new member – Siamak Sharif...

With an inspiring speech by Sir John Daniel, CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning, the BCcampus Opening Education event kicked off on Monday, October 17 at the wonderful a Simon Fraser University Centre for the Arts...

ApplyBC is the provincial service that anyone can use to apply to BC’s public post-secondary institutions. For the previous 15 years, this service has been known as PASBC, and it was the first online provincial application service in Canada. Since 2004, BCcampus has been responsible for managing and operating the service, under guidance from a Steering Committee of institutional and affiliate representatives...

BCcampus Executive Director David Porter met with B.C. College Presidents and was asked the question: "What advice could I give to institutional Presidents to advance a more collaborative future in BC higher education?"...

Paul Stacey, BCcampus’s Director of Curriculum Development, will be doing a couple of talks over the next week...