Bishop, Kathy

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Dr. Kathy Bishop is an Associate professor and the program head of the Master of Arts in Leadership program. She is passionate about teaching leadership and engaging in diverse approaches to research. Her research interests include creative and collaborative leadership, health and wellness, reflexivity and ethics and utilizing methodologies of a/r/tography (which includes theatre-based research and integrates being artist, researcher and educator) and action research for positive organizational change. She contends that different ways of doing and being can lead to collectively creating innovative solutions to local and global challenges. Bishop joined Royal Roads in 2013 with more than 27 years of leadership experience spanning multi-disciplinary fields including counselling, social services, not for profit agencies, small business development and adult education. A scholar-practitioner with her own consulting business since 2000, Bishop has also been executive director for the Parksville and District Chamber of Commerce and Woodwinds Community Support Society and worked as a registered social worker. Bishop earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Leadership and Applied Theatre) from the University of Victoria (2015) and Bachelor of Social Work from the University of British Columbia (1986). She received the UVic Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship award 2012-13 and in 2013-14.

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    Engagement in online learning: It’s not all about faculty!
    (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018) Bishop, Kathy; Etmanski, Catherine; Page, M. Beth
    In this chapter, we, the authors Bishop, Etmanski and Page, argue for the need to disrupt the traditional notion of faculty solely as expert. We redefine the online faculty role to be that of a facilitator who creates the space for students to engage with both content and other students in the class. We discuss the adult learning principles behind our practices and our attention to building community. To illustrate what our online teaching work looks like in practice, we begin by providing a creative script on what online learning could look like. We then speak to utilising the specific strategies of online forums, behind the scenes outreach, synchronous meetings and assignments to create rich engagement in the online environment for higher education and learning. We place a strong emphasis on building community among our students from the start of course and throughout. Recognising that people respond differently to different scenarios and have different learning preferences, we seek to offer a diverse range of options for experiencing community, with the intention of offering the possibility of belonging for everyone. The intention to create space for engagement in online learning has challenged us to continually ask ourselves how we can adapt or create new activities and experiences for the online learning environment, so as to enhance engagement.