Practice What Matters.
Grow your digital teaching practice, one small, focused step at a time. Whether you’re starting out or refining your skills, you’ll find practical and flexible activities to learn and apply what matters most to you — space to experiment, learn, and grow.
Explore activities.
The DLIT activities are organized into five thematic collections: Digital Literacy, Open Education, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Generative AI and Information Literacy.
Digital literacy
Digital literacy builds your skills in finding, evaluating, and communicating with digital tools.
These activities boost your confidence with research, communication, and content creation.
Open education
Open education activities foster intentional knowledge sharing and support inclusive, accessible learning spaces.
These activities help you practice collaboration, remixing, and open licensing.
Generative AI
Generative AI tools create text, images, and more—but using them well takes skill and care.
These activities help you try genAI in teaching while thinking critically about ethics, bias, and creativity.
Universal design for learning
UDL is a framework for designing experiences that support all students.
These activities help you recognize barriers and develop more inclusive and flexible teaching approaches.
Information literacy
Information literacy involves exploring how digital content is produced, valued & used.
These activities help you enhance your capabilities as an information creator and consumer.
From activities to competencies
Each activity on this site offers an opportunity to practice specific digital mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets — the building blocks of confident teaching.
The Digital Learning Competencies define essential digital knowledge, skills and attitudes for instructors and learning practitioners. These twenty-one digital learning competencies extend naturally from the BC Digital Literacy Framework [⬈]
By situating digital literacy at the heart of digital learning, these competencies can help educators thrive in a digital world.
Take a minute to assess your digital skill proficiency
Choose your path
This site offers you different ways to develop your digital learning mindsets, skillsets and toolsets.
Activity collection
Each activity is designed to be completed in ~15 minutes. Choose one that fits your interests or teaching context and dive in. You’ll explore tools, try a new approach and reflect on what it means for your practice.
Digital learning competencies
Activities are aligned with twenty-one digital learning competencies grouped into three categories: mindsets, skillsets and toolsets. Use them to assess your starting point and to chart your own informal steps forward.
Courses and credentials
Earn credits & digital badges leading to a short certificate by completing flexible, part-time and entirely online courses that combine enhanced tools, practices & designs with support and feedback from expert instructors at Vancouver Community College.
Community and resources
Everything here is openly available. You can use, share or remix these resources to support your own work or your learning community.
Register for a course or program
Flexible learning options open to students from across Canada and around the world.
The Digital Learning for Innovative Teaching Short Certificate consists of five 2-credit courses. Students can choose to complete courses individually or as part of the program.
Contact the School of Instructor Education to register. New courses starting each month.
Email: sie@vcc.ca
Phone: 604.871.7488 or 604.871.7499
