About CELT

Brian Lamb is serving as Interim Director of CELT, in addition to his ongoing role as Director of Learning Technology and Innovation. He is a co-founder of the OpenETC, which is a cooperative network sharing open technology infrastructure, and sits on many committees and working groups across the province and internationally. Brian has more than twenty-five years of experience working with instructors and students in a wide range of roles, and has been at TRU since 2012. He has a special passion for open educational practices and using the open web to foster learning, communication and collaboration. He blogs at Abject.

Wei holds a PhD in Education, an M.Ed., both focusing on Assessment and Evaluation (Queen’s University), an M.A. in Linguistics (Yonsei University, South Korea), and a B.A in English Language Teaching (Yanbian University, China). His research focuses on assessment for teaching and learning, large-scale testing, program evaluation, and students’ success. His work has earned prestigious awards such as SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and TIRF Doctoral Grant and has been presented at domestic and international conferences and published in high quality journals in the field.

Wei has been an educator for more than 20 years. Most of his work experiences involved teaching, research, curriculum design and implementation, and educational administration at postsecondary institutions. He has taught English, Mandarin Chinese, and Korean as a foreign language to various age groups, and trained teacher candidates on practical teaching in China and how to work with English Language Learners in Canada. He values experiential learning and makes every effort to create meaningful experiences for students to learn and grow.

Prior to joining TRU, Wei worked with Queen’s Health Sciences for their curriculum development and program evaluation. At TRU, Wei centers his work around a) supporting multicultural and multilingual faculty; b) advancing educational outcomes for multilingual learners, and c) promoting an inclusive classroom for all learners. Wei have been awarded as one of the 2024-25 TRU and TRUFA EDI fellows, which he will focus on the advancement of EDI and anti-racism literacy at TRU in the upcoming academic year.

Salli Carter (she/her) holds a Master of Management Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Queen’s University, a Bachelor of Arts in Adult Education from the University of the Fraser Valley, and is currently completing a Master of Arts in Adult Education. She has taught in post-secondary institutions across Canada for more than 10 years in business, education, and communications, and works with faculty through workshops and consultations to support practical, innovative teaching in a rapidly evolving educational landscape.

Her work focuses on supporting educators in examining the implications, opportunities, and challenges of generative AI in education, with particular attention to thoughtful, ethical, and pedagogically grounded approaches to its use in teaching and learning. Her current research explores how social enterprises involved in gleaning and food recovery measure and communicate their social and environmental impact.