User Innovation Toolkits: Fast and Cheap2025 ETUG Fall Workshop: High-Impact, Low-Cost EdTech – October 31, 2025
Brian
Lamb | User Innovation Toolkits: Fast and Cheap
The Learning Technology & Innovation team at Thompson
Rivers University, in collaboration with the BC OpenETC, has been exploring
ways to help educators, students, and researchers create more attractive,
robust, and accessible websites in WordPress. This session will showcase practical
techniques such as cloned starter sites and form-based authoring that enable
rapid development of flexible, user-friendly sites.
We will also highlight new frameworks built on WordPress’s Full Site Editing
themes and shareable Gutenberg block patterns that streamline design
consistency and accessibility-focused practices. Showcasing recent examples
from the OpenETC, TRUbox, and the TRU Open Press, and sharing adaptable
strategies to rapidly launch and develop WordPress-based projects in the BC
post-secondary system.
Brian
Lamb is a Director Learning Technology & Innovation at
Thompson Rivers University
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