The Teaching and Learning Innovation Digest - May 2023

FACULTY SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS
Essential social skills that are
learned in face-to-face environments
are now lacking in students because
they have not had an opportunity to
develop them.
There are still barriers to learning
and to return for international,
domestic and marginalized students
(economic, relocation, social).
Faculty need to get to know
their students; they need to build
community and trust.
re/CENTRE
How do we convince students to
return to classes for courses that
can be taught online? We need a
more critical and inclusive decisionmaking
process when making
decisions about the return.
Students lives are more complex
now than pre-pandemic students and
the flexibility of learning online has
allowed them to better manage their
more complex lives.
Many faculty and students aren’t
keen to return due to health/
anxiety/other issues that weren’t
present pre-pandemic.
FUNDAMENTALS OF OCAP
Rethinking research with First Nations communities
Jennifer Easter
Librarian, School of Community and Health Services (SCHS)
and School of Transportation (SOT)
In November 2022, 10 participants from
Centennial’s Library and Learning Centres
(LLC) and Centre for Faculty Development
and Teaching Innovation (CFDTI) signed
up to complete the Fundamentals of OCAP
course offered by the First Nations Information
Governance Centre (FNIGC). Developed and
delivered in partnership with Algonquin College,
Fundamentals of OCAP is the FNIGC’s first
online training program. The course is a
comprehensive review of the principles of
OCAP—Ownership, Control, Access, and
Possession—in regards to the “collection, use
and disclosure of data or information regarding
First Nations” (Algonquin College and First
Nations Information Governance Centre, n.d.).
The course was an opportunity for participants
to study these principles in-depth, to engage
and (for some participants) reengage in these
principles, and consider how they apply
to Indigenous research and their work at
Centennial. This work aligns with Centennial’s
Indigenous Strategic Framework which
supports the undertaking of research and
scholarship that acknowledges Indigenous
research practices. Over the course of seven
asynchronous modules, participants learned
about the principles of OCAP, the harm that
can be done to a First Nations community
when OCAP principles are not applied to
research, and how OCAP principles can
be applied to create a research project
that supports both First Nations and the
researchers, among other topics.
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