Author: Michael Paskevicius
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Teaching Excellence Video Series: Jessie Key on creating video lab tutorials
Jessie Key from Chemistry discusses his use of video tutorials for lectures and labs.
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Teaching Excellence Video Series: Eric Demers on hands on experience, conservation research and student skills development
Eric Demers and students from Biology discuss their experiences learning to bird band at VIU.
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Teaching Excellence Video Series: Louis Mattar on getting to know students, gathering feedback and flipping the classroom
Louis Mattar from Sport, Health & Physical Education shares his strategies for getting to know students, gathering feedback and flipping the classroom.
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BCcampus Open Textbook Project Presentation at VIU
On January 15th Clint Lalonde from BC Campus visited VIU to talk about the BCcampus Open Textbook Project. Clint Lalonde manages the Open Education department at BCcampus and is an extremely experienced educational technologist in all aspects of teaching and learning. Clint was joined by Jessie Key, one of three BC Campus Faculty Fellows; post-secondary educators…
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The growth of WordPress at VIU
We launched WordPress.viu.ca as a blogging/website service for faculty at Vancouver Island University in early 2012. The site is set up as a WordPress multisite network, so we maintain one version of the software/code and faculty can login and create blogs which exist within the VIU WordPress network of sites. WordPress sites have been created…
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Educause Learning Initiative Online Spring Focus Session on Faculty Engagement and Development: Effective & Innovative Practice
Last week I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Online Spring Focus Session on Faculty Engagement and Development: Effective & Innovative Practice. The session ran over three days from 9am-1pm online in Adobe Connect, an asynchronous collaborative meeting room very similar to Blackboard Collaborate used on our campus. I am estimating that roughly 50-75 participants…
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Teaching Excellence Project Reflections: Guest post from Ruth Rodgers
Since September 2013, it has been my privilege to participate with the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) team in the initial stages of a project investigating the characteristics of excellence in teaching practice valued by VIU faculty and students. The goals of this project were multi-layered: the team hoped to engage the…
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Reflections on the Educational Developers Caucus 2014
I recently attended the Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) hosted at the University of Calgary. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Conceptions of the profession: How institutional directions shape our practice’ (program available here). The EDC is organized by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and brings together a community of…
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What Helps Me Learn: Reflections from International Students Video Project
During International Week at VIU we attended a panel discussion of international students reflecting on the process of their learning organized by The Faculty of International Education and the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL). The students provided such valuable insights in their reflections that we decided to try and get them back to…
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EDUCAUSE 2013 Conference
A couple of us attended the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference held this year in Anaheim, California from October 15-18. The conference program is derived from member-driven content organized across six overarching IT domains including: Data/Information Access and Management; Enterprise and Infrastructure; Leadership and Management; Security, Privacy, and Compliance; Services and Support; and Teaching and Learning. This…
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Strategies for doing conference reviews and reflections
Attending a conference is a great opportunity to learn and interact with like minded colleagues from around the world. Conferences can also be exhausting and overwhelming as the program is often fast and furious and you interact with many people in a very short timespan. In this post I reflect on my strategies for…