CoI (athabascau.ca) My context is under the umbrella of a nonprofit organization that serves refugees such as displaced peoples from war torn places such as Ukraine. In addition, we serve newcomers to Canada who arrive under our skilled workers visa program and who have sacrificed their careers, their homes, and family to try to make a better life in Canada, all the while working as dishwashers and cooks to pay the bills as they try to learn the English and skills they will need to survive here. Learning soft skills and hard skills to make it through this three-to-six-year quest with a pathway to residency and hopefully citizenship, is not easy. After the Covid-19 pandemic, our learners participate in a HyFlex learning model. Teaching presence in my context is especially important due to the competing cultural expectations that students bring to the classroom as well as...

As a teacher of over 20 years, I feel that I have been facilitating for quite some time. One thing that I have learned is that I have not spent much time verbalizing these experiences and that it is not easy to do. Second, I have realized that over the pandemic, it has been a huge shift. At first, I tried to recreate these learning environments virtually. Over time and especially during my MALAT journey, I have realized that I don’t have to and in fact it is more beneficial when I don’t. A lot of my decisions have been implicit and make use of tacit beliefs. After much reflection, I have realized that I take an iterative approach to design and learning. I feel I enjoy working like this and that there is always another layer to peel and reveal something new I can improve upon. I do have two questions to pose. First, what can I do to better reflect and truly observe my own...