Synopsis
They discuss learner onboarding, the pivotal role of digital navigation, strategies for supporting both teachers and students with diverse digital skills, and CBAL’s innovative use of Avenue to create continuity, confidence, and community within the LINC program.
Generative AI was used to help organize and edit the original interview transcript. It helped break long answers into shorter sections, add clarifying questions, and improve readability, while keeping the interviewee’s words, meaning, and perspective intact.
Introductions and Pathways into Settlement Language Training
The CBAL Context: Geography, Learners, and Delivery Models
Preparing Learners for Digital Success: The Orientation Model
Supporting Instructors and Helping Classes Run Smoothly
Training and Teacher Capacity: Building a Digitally Confident Instructional Team
Learner Needs, Essential Skills, and Digital Problem-Solving
Mobility, Portfolios, and Continuity for Rural Learners
Agents of Change in a Digitally Evolving World
CBAL is your regional online LINC provider supporting the Kootenay & Boundary, South Okanagan-Similkameen (Penticton, Okanagan Falls, Oliver, Osoyoos, Keremeos, Summerland, Peachland and Princeton), Shuswap (Salmon Arm, Sicamous and area) and Revelstoke.
