Brian Lamb

“TRU Open Learning programs and courses are perfect for anyone who needs flexibility while pursuing their educational goals,” says Matthew Dyck, associate director of Student Engagement and Experience, Open Learning. @MDDyck

Exciting news! TRU is launching a new and innovate program to create free textbooks and course materials! We were pleased to be part of the TRU Open Education Working Group over the past year working on this project! 📚 🌐 trusu.ca/news/studentca… #mytru

I got a Father’s Day message from my son that only #OnCinema fans can understand. He almost didn’t finish it as it all began to sink in…

@pwmartin @CarolynIves @UPEI Please say hi to John from me! It’s been far too long.

Once a Joyce scholar, always a Joyce scholar? Thanks to John McIntyre from @UPEI for inviting me to speak a bit about Ulysses at Charlottetown’s #Bloomsday celebration.

A highlight of today’s #BCNET2023 was @iso_normalcy sharing his team’s impressive work building out UBC’s Learning Events and Learning Records Store implementation. Cool to see that learning tech development and capacity building is still a thing some places. And Jeff is so cool.

@ElwiraRosiak @MelRothenburger Ugh.

LETTER – The solution no one wants to say out loud armchairmayor.ca/2023/04/25/let…

@dreamsanatomy @JamieDrozda Thanks so much for your contributions to the discussion!

#BCNET2023 I just attended awesome session by @JamieDrozda @brlamb on Unbounded Possibilities: Enabling your Digital Strategy with Open Platforms. (unbounded.trubox.ca )They introduced TRUBox which is a WordPress site that allows students to create portfolios/resources!

@AnnGagne Sometimes a star shines so brightly, works so hard, and makes a difference with so many people that even academia can’t get it wrong.

Maybe I will find the words to express how happy and relieved this news makes me feel. Or to express how much Brenna means to our team, and to me. I doubt I ever will. But I will say that this is a very, very good day for TRU. It means a lot that Brenna has made her place here.

I always appreciated working with Nancy at TRU. So passionate in working for the people she served. Now, she works for our community.

RT @thompsonriversu: The Transgender Pride Flag is flying high at TRU today as we celebrate the International Transgender Day of Visibility…

@iso_normalcy Zing!

I collected some random items into a quickie blog post. I may keep doing this: abject.ca/hits-misses-an…

@Diomira57 The restaurant is supposed to stay open, but I worry how it may do without a year-round motel on site.

@brlamb Thanks for this. Lots of trails to follow. But that’s seriously disturbing about Scott’s Inn. I’m surprised I didn’t run into you there. A real movie set. A time warp. Went there in solitude many times. Now nothing? No open-faced beef and fries?

A conversation that just happened by my office door: "Do you wanna see Cocaine Bear?" "For sure! ...wait, is that a film?"

I may never be able to publish a proper roadtrip recap of the California/Oregon tour with @jimgroom, so for now a "Preamble, post-ramble." abject.ca/preamble-post-…

The proposal is put forward by TRU's Open Education Working Group, @TRUSU15, the Office of Indigenous Education, @TRULibrary, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, and others. I work with the most amazing people. oewg.trubox.ca

"TRU Open Press is digital-first, differentiated by a commitment to unique and compelling knowledge mobilization strategies and expertise in the development of interactive media." Check out the proposal here. It's open. That's how we roll. truopenpressplan.pressbooks.tru.ca

Excited to see that TRU's Open Education Working Group application for ISP budget funding is moved for further review. The idea is to take existing open infrastructure and expertise in learning design, resource development and to formalize it as the TRU Open Press.