Helena Prins (she/her)

Helena Prins

Helena is an advisor of Learning + Teaching at BCcampus and coordinates the Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) portfolio. She began her career as a high-school teacher in South Africa. Over the past 20 years, Helena has taught students of all ages and stages on four continents. A golden thread throughout her teaching experiences has been breaking down barriers to learning. Prior to joining BCcampus in 2020, Helena worked as a career learning and development advisor at Royal Roads University. As an immigrant, she values the opportunity to support all students, especially international students, in finding and building their career path in Canada. She is a certified career strategist with Career Professionals Canada. Helena is also associate faculty at Royal Roads University.

Mattermost: @hprins

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/helenaprins

Leva Lee (she/her)

Leva Lee

Leva is manager, Learning + Teaching at BCcampus. She has many years experience leading online learning projects and professional development opportunities for the secondary and post-secondary education sectors in B.C., with a background in open and distance learning and educational technology. Her special interests are mico-learning design, fostering communities of practice and creative facilitation practices for learning engagement. She is a Liberating Structures practitioner and enthusiastic promoter of the B.C. post-secondary community and those committed to improving the student experience. She created the BCcampus Online Book Club with help from members of the BC post-secondary teaching and learning community in 2018. This is the fourth offering of the BCcampus Online Book Club.

Mattermost: @levalee

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/levalee