Radical Inclusivity: Crafting Community in Foundation Visual Arts Online
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Covid-19 protocols in Canada created travel barriers for international learners and limited cohort size at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD) in Fredericton, New Brunswick. In response, a fully online Foundation Visual Arts (FVA) certificate program was developed and launched in the Fall of 2021. It welcomed an international cohort of 18 students. Many of these students subsequently earned a seat in one of our diploma areas, moving to Canada to graduate from our college. “Community” is one of the core values at NBCCD; creating a sense of community was central to the development of the pilot program. Considerations of accessibility and inclusivity concerning language, time zones, neurodiversity, and technology were part of the cohort-based online pilot. These priorities support learner diversity and are directly related to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Some tools designed to support learner diversity in the FVA online program have been adapted to hybrid use in the in-person studio classes at NBCCD. Now in its fourth year with doubled enrollment, the FVA online offers an inclusive and flexible learning opportunity for distance learners with diverse needs and preferences. It has become a proven pathway to continued study at NBCCD.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".