Teaching a Learning Workshops
VIU is blessed to have an amazing teaching and learning team at the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL).
THE CIEL team engages with faculty to help enhance courses for optimal student learning. The CIEL regularly holds teaching and learning workshops designed to inform, and augment pedagogy with the goal to enhance student learning.
Educational Developers Caucus 2018 Conference – February 14 – 16, 2018
The conference theme is Educational Developers Gaining an Edge (EDGE) prompting attendees to broadly consider the following questions:
What unexpected, creative, and bold practices are emerging?
What transformations and innovations are taking place at the edge of educational development?
What vital impact are you having at your institution? How and where can you gain more impact?
How is educational development creating extraordinary academic environments related to experiential learning, decolonization, and internationalization?
Teaching the Students of Today: Exploring our Roles and Responsibilities as Educators – Spring 2018
Participants on this course can expect to learn about:
- Promoting student autonomy through classroom interactions
- Incorporating VIUs graduate attributes in their teaching
- Connecting their practice with VIUs ‘Teaching and Learning Principles and Responsibilities’
- Interacting with colleagues in support of broader institutional goals
- Strategies for enhancing practices through student feedback