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Working Together for the Community

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Editing and Intellectual Property teams joined forces for a good cause: Donating purse care packages (make-up, toiletries, gloves, etc.) for Kamloops Y Women’s Shelter. Our union (CUPE 4879) and Kamloops and District Labour Council organized the event. “We were expecting to put together 50 purses but with the overwhelming inpouring of donations, we ended up with…

What’s Our Opposite Job?

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“The [U.S.] Labor Department keeps detailed and at times delightfully odd records on the skills and tasks required for each job. Some of them are physical: trunk strength, speed of limb movement, the ability to stay upright. Others are more knowledge-based: economics and accounting, physics, programming. Together, they capture the essence of what makes a job distinctive….

Student Outcomes

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Our editing goal is to make learner-centred courses that meet the needs of our students. But how can we know if we have achieved this, since we seldom have the chance to meet Open Learning students face-to-face? One valuable resource is to check student feedback from post-course surveys in Tableau. This can indicate which specific…

Working Remotely
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Working Remotely

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Process Change!  Some editors may be working from home in the next few weeks.  What? Why?  The health authorities urge Canadians to practice social distancing, and we can do our work without being in close proximity to others in public spaces.  Photo by Dimitri Karastelev on Unsplash What Does This Mean?  We are still working! We will be doing…