Month: December 2013
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Metacognitive Teaching Strategies: Helping Students Learn how to Learn
Session 3: Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP), Fall, 2013 Perhaps the most popular of the fall CoSTP sessions, Metacognitive Teaching Strategies: Helping Students Learn How to Learn generated two […]
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Reaching All Students: How to design learning for variety of needs and abilities in classroom
Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP): Session 2 (Fall, 2013) Toward the end of October, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) convened for the second time VIU’s […]
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Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP): Session 1 (Fall, 2013)
High Impact Educational Practices On Wednesday October 9th and Thursday, October 10th, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) convened its first Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP). […]
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Validation and encouragement to carry on…can be found at a conference!
My colleague Lynda Robinson and I attended The Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA) in Toronto, Ontario, November 17-19, 2013. CAPLA is a non-profit, membership based organization with a […]
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Blogging in the “global Common Room”
I really liked the recent description of academic blogging as the creation of a “global Common Room”. Maybe it’s the memory of my two sabbatical terms spent in England, where […]