Month: December 2014
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Orientation to VIULearn (D2L) for Students – Spring 2015
Many courses offered at VIU use our online learning management system, VIULearn. To help prepare you for your course, VIU is offering free orientation workshops to VIULearn. These are available either face-to-face on Nanaimo campus or online for all students. It is not mandatory for you to attend an orientation workshop. During the workshop we will…
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Skills and Post-Secondary Education Summit: Five Year Initiative on Canadian Education
I attended possibly the best learning experience I have had in recent years! The 2nd Annual Skills and Post-Secondary Education Summit was an extremely well-organized, wonderfully-designed experience for sharing expertise and new knowledge along with research insights and directions for post-secondary education in Canada. For the past decade or so, I have been on…
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Culture in the Classroom: Final Session Summary
Our final meeting for the Culture in the Classroom series took place on November 20th. Although this was our last meeting, in some ways it felt like we were just getting started. Clearly, eight hours spread across four sessions was only enough to scratch the surface. Many participants indicated that they would have liked to…