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• Plain Language Best Practices

  Author(s): West Coast Editorial Associates

  Updated: Sep 7, 2021

  Description: This plain language resource is a model for how British Columbia post-secondary institutions can craft and review their policies on sexualized violence and misconduct.

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• Evaluating Sexualized Violence Training and Resources

  Author(s): SVM Training and Resources Working Group

  Updated: Sep 7, 2021

  Description: The purpose of this toolkit is to assist B.C. post-secondary institutions with evaluating and selecting resources to support their ongoing planning and delivery of training on sexualized violence.

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• Active Bystander Intervention: Training and Facilitation Guide

  Author(s): Sexual Violence Training Development Team

  Updated: Sep 7, 2021

  Description: A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Active Bystander Intervention is a 90-minute workshop for all members of the campus community: students, faculty, administrators, and staff. This training helps learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to recognize and intervene in an incident of sexual violence as well as discuss strategies for creating a safer campus community. Uses the 4D’s (Direct, ...[more]

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• Consent & Sexual Violence: Training and Facilitation Guide

  Author(s): Sexual Violence Training Development Team

  Updated: Sep 7, 2021

  Description: A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Consent & Sexual Violence is a 90-minute workshop for all members of the campus community: students, faculty, administrators, and staff. This training explores different understandings of consent, including the legal definition. Learners have the opportunity to develop skills related to asking for and giving consent in all relationships as well as discuss strat...[more]

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• Accountability and Repairing Relationships: Training and Facilitation Guide

  Author(s): Sexual Violence Training Development Team

  Updated: Sep 3, 2021

  Description: A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Accountability and Repairing Relationships is a series of four 90-minute workshops for individuals who have been informed that they have caused harm in the context of sexual violence. Designed for one-on-one or small group facilitation, learners are guided through information and reflection activities that help them recognize the harm they have caused, learn ho...[more]

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• Supporting Survivors: Training and Facilitation Guide

  Author(s): Sexual Violence Training Development Team

  Updated: Sep 3, 2021

  Description: A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Supporting Survivors is a 90 minute workshop for all members of the campus community: students, faculty, administrators, and staff. This training helps learners respond supportively and effectively to disclosures of sexual violence. It includes a discussion of available supports and resources, the differences between disclosing and reporting, and opportunities ...[more]

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• Customer Centric Strategy

  Author(s): Kerri Shields, Centennial College

  Updated: Sep 3, 2021

  Description: Customer centricity is about organizational transformation making the customer the focus for business decisions, processes, product development, services, and procedures. Some companies purport to be customer centric but they fall short in connecting this concept throughout all functional areas of the business. While it is important to offer superb customer service, being customer centric is far more than that. It's about mapping the customer journey to discover customer needs and wants, what...[more]

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• Student Success

  Author(s): Mary Shier, College of the Rockies

  Updated: Sep 3, 2021

  Description: This book offers study skills and practices for college and university students to help them make a positive transition to post-secondary education, learn how to be a successful student, and make the most of their learning experience. This textbook was created to provide a resource for the ABE provincial level course, Student Success, and it provides resources to meet all the required and optional learning outcomes. The course can be used an elective course towards the BC Adult Graduation Diplo...[more]

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• University Physics - Volume 1 (OpenStax)

  Author(s): Samuel J. Ling, Truman State University, Jeff Sanny, Loyola Marymount University, William Moebs (retired), Loyola Marymount University

  Updated: Aug 26, 2021

  Description: University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigo...[more]

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• Introductory Statistics (OpenStax)

  Author(s): Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College, Susan Dean, De Anza College

  Updated: Aug 26, 2021

  Description: Introductory Statistics follows the scope and sequence of a one-semester, introduction to statistics course and is geared toward students majoring in fields other than math or engineering. This text assumes students have been exposed to intermediate algebra, and it focuses on the applications of statistical knowledge rather than the theory behind it. The foundation of this textbook is Collaborative Statistics, by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, which has been widely adopted. Introductory Stati...[more]

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