Category: Deep Learning

  • Fostering Greater Student Independence: VIU’s August Team-Based Learning Course Redesign

    Fostering Greater Student Independence: VIU’s August Team-Based Learning Course Redesign

    On August 20-23, the Centre launched its 6th cohort of Team-Based-Learning Course Re-Designers Michaelsen’s Team-Based Learning Model is a method that fosters greater student independence and personal responsibility for learning. The key is a simple, coherent set of instructional protocols that, when adopted consistently, ensure that all the forces for engagement are aligned for high-level…

  • What makes VIU Excellent in Teaching and Learning?

    What makes VIU Excellent in Teaching and Learning?

    In May 2018, Vancouver Island University was named a finalist in the Global Teaching Excellence Awards from the Higher Education Academy headquartered in the United Kingdom. One of 17 finalists, VIU was the only other Canadian institution that was named a finalist besides McMaster University, which won the award. The 2018 award received 400 submissions…

  • VIU Teaching and Learning Conference: Registration Filling Up Fast!

    VIU Teaching and Learning Conference: Registration Filling Up Fast!

    VIU Teaching and Learning Conference: Celebrating Impactful Assessment Wednesday, May 10 – Friday, May 12 Conference Website: bit.ly/viutlc2017 Program Sessions: Link (online schedule that allows you to bookmark sessions you may wish to attend; adding sessions to your schedule does not mean you are registered – please still complete the registration for each day you wish…

  • Teaching Excellence Video Series: Greg Bush on creating authentic learning experiences

    Teaching Excellence Video Series: Greg Bush on creating authentic learning experiences

    Greg Bush from Music discusses his LITE Grant project in which he invited a composer to his Jazz Ensemble class to create custom-designed music written just for them.

  • Teaching Excellence Video Series: Eric Demers on hands on experience, conservation research and student skills development

    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.

  • I have to get an A on this!

    I have to get an A on this!

    by Rob Ferguson, Teaching Faculty Member and Co-Chair, Department of Recreation and Tourism Management, Faculty of Management, VIU Our current higher education system has created a culture where the almighty ‘A’ has somehow lost some of its sheen. I’m confident that most, if not all, university educators have been confronted with the student who asserts…

  • Calibrated Peer Review Part V

    By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV I would like to end my series on the CPR process with my particular learning from this process…

  • Simulation Snippets Part V

    Simulation Snippets Part V

    By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Simulation Snippets Part 1; Part II, Part III and Part IV This has been another red letter couple of weeks for the healthcare simulation suites in building 180. Last week marked my…

  • Simulation Snippets Part IV

    By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Simulation Snippets Part 1; Part II, Part III and Part V   For this posting I would like to talk about some of the pedagogy around simulation. The vision for our simulation…

  • Calibrated Peer Review Part IV

      By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part II, Part III and Part V For this posting, I would like to offer some of the student responses to the CPR process…

  • Calibrated Peer Review Part III

        By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part II, Part IV and Part V     I thought I would start this posting by describing the Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)…

  • Simulation Snippets Part III

    Simulation Snippets Part III

    By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Simulation Snippets Part 1; Part 2; Part 4 and Part 5 This has been a red-letter week in the simulation suites. This week, I debuted the two most comprehensive simulations I have…