Month: December 2013
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Metacognitive Teaching Strategies: Helping Students Learn how to Learn
Session 3: Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP), Fall, 2013 Perhaps the most popular of the fall CoSTP sessions, Metacognitive Teaching Strategies: Helping Students Learn How to Learn generated two engaging discussions related to topics inherent to helping students learn how to learn. A relatively new research area for post-secondary educators to sink their teeth…
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Reaching All Students: How to design learning for variety of needs and abilities in classroom
Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP): Session 2 (Fall, 2013) Toward the end of October, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) convened for the second time VIU’s Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP). After an invigorating first session on High Impact Practices, participants came together this time to discuss the theme Reaching…
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Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP): Session 1 (Fall, 2013)
High Impact Educational Practices On Wednesday October 9th and Thursday, October 10th, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) convened its first Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP). This group was comprised of faculty and staff at VIU interested in using a seminar-style approach to developing their knowledge of both the theory and…
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Validation and encouragement to carry on…can be found at a conference!
My colleague Lynda Robinson and I attended The Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA) in Toronto, Ontario, November 17-19, 2013. CAPLA is a non-profit, membership based organization with a voluntary board of directors, the Chair none other than our own Student Affairs Executive Director, Patrick J. Donahoe, PhD. Please see The History of CAPLA…
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Blogging in the “global Common Room”
I really liked the recent description of academic blogging as the creation of a “global Common Room”. Maybe it’s the memory of my two sabbatical terms spent in England, where the Common Room tradition was still alive and well…for our “elevenses”, Mrs. Cambridge came in each day to make the tea. (Does that still happen,…