Month: January 2014
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Calibrated Peer Review Part 1
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For the all postings on this subject see Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V In the fall term of 2013, 1st and 2nd year Bachelor of Science in Nursing faculty along with the Centre for Innovation…
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Motivating Students: Resources for Faculty to Engage Learners
One of the most frequent questions I get in my role working with faculty is on the topic of motivation. How to motivate the ‘unmotivated’ student? How to engage students when all existing strategies have failed to engage? How to get students to be involved in their own learning? Here are a collection of articles,…
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Simulation Snippets Part 1
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all the Simulation Snippet Postings see Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V I think it is safe to say that all practice oriented programs use simulation in some form or other to…
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5X5X25 Challenge: Open Blogging with VIU Employees
The 5 X 5 X 25 Challenge! Wanting to do something a bit different this term to engage more than just teaching faculty in our offerings, I found an idea on Faculty Focus about a college in the US who issued a 9 X 9 X 25 challenge to their faculty – blogging 9…
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Teaching Faculty Scholars
For the past four months, I have been co-facilitating a full year faculty development program with Liesel Knaack and Michael Paskevicius. We arrived at the idea of offering this program by acknowledging that while many institutes of higher education design and facilitate support programs for faculty, these programs are often limited in time and content. …