Tag: 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…

  • 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…

  • Is Gaming Responsible for Student Disengagement

    Is Gaming Responsible for Student Disengagement

    I’m currently reading a book titled ‘Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter’ by Steven Berlin Johnson. I would recommend reading this book. It is an amazing and thought inspiring read. But that’s not what this post is about. In part of the book, Steven discusses why…